Torture is not just confined to Abu Ghraib. At Passaic County
Jail in New Jersey, Muslims rounded up after 9/11 were terrorized with
dogs, beatings, and psychological abuse by guards. Not only were
detainees subject to torture, but they were held illegally without due
process, sometimes for years. When one former detainee saw the
pictures from Abu Ghraib of the military using unmuzzled dogs to
torture, he identified this as virtually the same as what was done to
him.
Jonathan Turley, a professor of national security
and constitutional law at George Washington University, said, “To hear
about the use of dogs in this way within the United States is
truly shocking. But Abu Ghraib didn’t spring from the head of
Zeus.” Indeed, torture is now part of government policy, with
Bush declaring his right to continue its use with his signing statement
to last year’s anti-torture bill. And when the Justice
Department’s inspector general criticized the post-9/11 detentions of
immigrants in 2003, then attorney general John Ashcroft said he had “no
apologies”.
Will you accept a government which openly declares its right to
torture around the world and right inside its own jails? Or will
you resist?
The World Can’t Wait! Drive Out the Bush Regime!
(Source: “9/11 Detainess Describe Abuse Involving Dogs”, NY Times, 4/3/06)