Attorney General Probes Torture

At last the Obama administration is looking into claims of torture by the CIA under the Bush/Cheney rule. After convicting low level Sargents, Privates, and Corporals it is time to go after the main criminals responsible for this idiotic and illegal policy. We have American prisoners in Iraq and Afganistan who will probably be tortured because Muslim prisoners are routinely tortured here.

It should come as no surprise that the same government that condoned slavery, genocide, and disenfranchisement for 400 years would turn to torture the first opportunity that presented itself. After all these aren't white people. They're Arabs. Muslims, not Christians. We have every right to torture them. They aren't even covered by the Geneva convention.

Hold these assholes accountable! George Tenet, Donald Rumsfield, Dick Cheney, Condelezza Rice, and George Bush should be in jail this very minute while investigations take place. Their list of crimes is certainly long enough. They leaked the name of a CIA agent to the press. They wiretapped thousands of American citizens illegally. They rendered individuals to foreign countries without charge to be tortured. They lied about weapons of mass destruction. Invaded a coutry that posed no threat resulting in the loss of thousands of American lives. Murdered thousands of Iraqis by bombing schools, hospitals and mosques. Tortured prisoners at Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib.

Plaxico Burress shot himself in the ass and has to do two years in prison. Bill Clinton got a blowjob and lied about it and was almost impeached. Where is the justice?

Let Eric Holder off the chain. Appoint a special prosecutor like Ken Starr who will look for crimes even where they don't exist. Fully investigate Blackwater, Haliburton, and Cheney's role in no bid contracts. Make the Republicans run for their lives! It is not a question of politics. It is a question of justice.

Without justice there can be no democracy.

The Black Panthers AND COINTELPRO, Then And Now

Deep thoughts from director Tommy Bunz.

It's funny looking back how the government used a covert program to tap the phones of American citizens, murder them, arrest them when excercising their rights, and place them in prison on trumped up charges, all in the name of national security. Sound familiar? Arabs and Muslims here in America and abroard are being subjected to the same tyranny the Black Panthers, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King and hundreds of other innocent Freedom Fighters. It never stopped, the target just shifted.

No individual was ever charged with a crime for the abuses under COINTELPRO. People had their lives ruined by false charges. Some had to leave the country to escape prison. Some were murdered in their sleep. Some were tortured, in plain sight ( ask Bobby Seale). The government never admitted responsibility or made any restitution to the affected individuals.

Muslims and Arabs have been subjected to the same treatment. They have been arrested without trial, shipped to foreign prisons to be tortured, had their phones tapped and business records scrutinized. Hell, they even made ass pyramids with prisoners and morally degraded them on camera. Just like fire hosing black folks on Sunday and bombing churches with little girls inside.

Think anyone will be charged for the abuses of power under Bush? My guess is hell no. If Nixon was able to avoid prosecution for COINTELPRO, Reagan and Bush for Iran/Contra, Abu Ghraib and phone tapping will be swept away like a booger on the floor. Hell, they were looking for Bin Laden for Christsakes!

There never has been a fair system of justice in this country. Why expect it now?