New documents obtained by the ACLU show "unjustified homicide" of detainees and concerns about the condition of confinement in American prisons, CNN reported on Saturday.
Thousands of documents detailing the deaths of 190 detainees were released by the ACLU on Friday.
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The documents reveal how four Iraqi detainees were executed by a group of US soldiers and then pushed into a Baghdad canal in 2007.
One of the investigating documents says a wounded detainee was killed by an unnamed sergeant, who walked into the room where the detainee was lying wounded and “assaulted him … then shot him twice thus killing him.”
The soldier then asked the other troopers present at the scene to lie about the incident.
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No senior officials have been held accountable for the violations.
Imagine you did something absolutely heinous, like purchasing cannabis or selling unpasteurized milk or, God forbid, criticizing the US and its policies. You’re in jail now, you fucking abhorrent bastard.
So what does one do between getting gang tattoos and being shower raped?
I have thought about this from time to time, and I know what I would do with most of my free time: curl up [in the fetal position] with a good book. Imagine my shock if I were imprisoned in South Carolina and the only book I would be allowed to read was the Bible.
Now, I’ve read the Bible. A couple times, in fact. It’s not an easy read, nor would I say it’s one of the best books I ever read. As a piece of literature, it’s rather derivative and plagiarizes heavily from previous works, nor is it even the most recent divinely authorized text of that theological lineage (shout out to the Koran, asalamalakum, motha fucka!).
What’s worse, Christians have pretty much ruined the ending for everyone. I imagine it would be like if the only movie the prison ever showed inmates was “The Sixth Sense” or “Titanic.” After a while… it would be “cruel and unusual punishment.”
What kind of mind-fuck is this prison trying to pull here? When I read things like this, I am reminded of people who have never been to jail but complain about how prisoners have it so easy. I guess this is one prison that has completely given up on rehabilitation and decided they are not only a punitive measure, but a recruitment tool for Christianity.
I also wonder: why do they need to bother? The most popular tattoo among prisoners is already the cross, so clearly these are people already acquainted with “the good book.”
Welp, it looks like my gym buddy is going to jail for six months (for a ridiculous victimless crime, of course). This sucks. He's basically my own personal trainer, except I don't pay him anything.
More than one percent of Adult Americans are now behind bars. The United States beats even China and Russia in the percentage of its citizens that are in prison. The numbers get worse for minorities, with 1 in 36 Hispanic adults locked up and 1 in 15 African American men. For black men between the ages of 20 and 34 the number is 1 in 9! Perhaps this is the future, with economic collapse coming and our increasingly tyrannical government, maybe we'll all either be employed in our nations biggest growth industry (prisons) or living in a jail cell.
I was watching an old episode of Cops on G4 and two African American men got pulled over for not wearing seatbelts. The cop discovered marijuana in the car (how terrible)! and you know what happened next. The government is evil and anyone who continues to support it and its agents (so-called law enforcement, in reality government thugs with a legal- but not moral-monopoly of force) is evil also.
One doesn't have to advocate the use of drugs to recognize that current laws are unjust. Before 1912 the US didn't have any drug laws! Thanks big government "progressives," your continual advocacy for expanding the reach of the Federal Government into our lives is what lead to all this. You'll note that Hillary calls herself progressive. Did the last Clinton White House do a goddamn thing about getting rid of federal laws against even the use of medical marijuana? No, Bill's Drug Czar was one of the worst drug warriors ever, Gen. Barry R. McCaffrey. Do you really want the Clintons anywhere near the executive mansion ever again? I sure as hell don't!
Let's stop passing more and more laws and start getting rid of a few. Every new law just makes it more likely that you'll find yourself guilty of breaking one, probably by accident (for who could possibly keep up with them all). Every law gives government and its criminal agents, i.e., the police, more power, as in the case above on Cops where a seemingly innocent thing like the seat belt laws lead to getting pulled over. It's no ones business if someone decides not to wear a seat belt. The nanny state must go! (it is going, to the ash heap of history, that is, along with everyone who supports it).
Here is a current example of what the drug war has given us:
A Cookeville officer is seen allegedly placing drugs on...Carlos Ferrell, before arresting him.
Ferrell is now suing the city of Cookeville, the police department, Putnam County, and the sheriff’s office for $10 million.
During the arrest, Ferrell was also bitten by a police K9.
Now, even if the cops in this case didn't plant the drugs, what happened during the arrest with the use of dogs was unnecessary. If you don't think this is the best example, check out these instances of police criminal misconduct.
