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THE AXIS OF AMERICAN EVIL

MNN. Mar. 25, 2008. Was the Mohawk-Oka

Crisis of 1990 a dry run for overseas terror?

On July 11, 1990, the Quebec Police

paramilitary forces opened fire on a group

of peaceful demonstrators in the early

hours of the morning. We were resisting

the nearby town of Oka from illegally

building a golf course on top of our burial

and ceremonial site. The attack on us

escalated after Prime Minister Brian

Mulroney met with President George Bush.

4000 heavily armed soldiers surrounded

three of our communities, Kanehsatake,

Kahnawake and Akwesasne. They wanted

us to fire a shot so they would have an

excuse to kill us. We were on to them.

Col. Musgrave of the British Secret

Service was brought over by a Canadian

think tank to put a plan in motion to break

us down. He was going to use tactics the

Brits used against the Irish. He vowed to

accomplish this in three weeks.

The corporate press stepped up its

habitual demonization of us. The soldiers

shouted and threatened us. The media

?spinners? portrayed our men, women

and children as the nasty enemy and we

were less than human. This created the

conditions required to get the public to

accept mistreatment and violations of our

rights. We were subjected to sleep

deprivation by flying choppers over us all

night long. Even jets were flown close over

our heads. Bright lights were shone on us

and into our windows. Food was cut off or

left to rot or spat upon and peed into by the

soldiers before it was turned over to us.

Water and hydro were turned off and on.

Incendiary devices were blown up around us.

Snipers were everywhere.

When we finally walked out September 26^th

1990, the soldiers and cops attacked, beat

and threw us into buses and took us to

prisons at Farnham army base. We were

left on the tarmac all night long. They would

not let us go to the bathroom or get medical

attention for our injured. The soldiers beat

their guns on the sides of the bus to stop us

from sleeping, swore and shouted racial slurs

at us and took out their penises and urinated

at us.

This was not the aberrant behavior of a few

bad apples. They tried to take our children

from us to use as hostages to control us.

Luckily we got them out. We were herded

into barracks and forbidden to sleep or eat.

Anyone who dozed off was awakened with

rifle butts banged on the floor next to our

heads. After two sleepless nights we were

taken for interrogation. In the room were

two men who shouted racial and degrading

slurs and threats at us. The Quebec Police

and their army trainers told us that we would

spend the rest of our lives in jail.

Our men were subjected to cruelty that

violated the Geneva Conventions ? One of

our young men was handcuffed, blind folded,

told to kneel down and face a wall. A gun

was put to his head and cocked repeatedly.

He was told that he was alone and that no one

was going to rescue him. One of our men,

Ronald Cross, was beaten over and over again.

He eventually died of his injuries. In the end the

courts found that none of us were guilty of

anything. We remain defiant against injustice

and genocide.

In the film ?Taxi to the Dark Side? [Seville

Pictures] Dilawar was a young Afghani, a young

father in his early twenties, who came from a

peanut farming community. In December 2002,

while driving his new taxi, he and his three

passengers fell into the hands of the U.S. forces.

Five days later he was dead. He was grabbed,

hooded and taken to Bagram Prison. U.S.

soldiers worked at maiming him to, as they said,

?Get him to talk?.

Dilawar, called a PUC, ?person under control?

#421, was systematically tortured until he died.

One was surprised ?it took so long for him to die?.

The soldiers said they were told over and over

again that the Afghanis were very evil people and

had nothing but violent intentions.

Wiliam Assera, a lawyer, said when the prisoners

were brought in they were immediately assaulted

by the soldiers and dogs. They were spat at,

cameras flashed at their faces, their culture was

attacked and ridiculed. They were kept in isolation,

deprived of sleep and always handcuffed. They

were kept in the ?air locks?, subjected to cavity

searches and constantly screamed at and

questioned. This is called the ?shock of the

capture?.

The ?air lock? is a room surrounded by razor wire.

Arms are suspended in the air in hand cuffs

locked onto the ceiling grate. Soldiers beat a

prisoner ?that was difficult?. A knee was kicked

into a pressure point on the side of the leg.

Dilawar?s body showed that his legs were

?pulpafide?. His body became limp. Four soldiers

went into the air lock, kicked him again and jumped

on his back while he was shackled. One soldier

struck Dilawar?s leg so many times that he hurt

himself and to switch legs. Torture became

amusement just to hear him scream ?Allah?.

The blood clots traveled to his lungs. The death

certificate stated he died by of ?homicide? by

?blunt force?. If he had lived, his legs would have

had to be amputated. Murder is the ultimate torture.

Ken Davis said that the prisoners were roughed up

by vicious dogs. He would not say where the

orders came from. Was it Donald Rumsfeld, the

Secretary of Defense in 2004?

Cap. Carolyn Wood ran Bagram Prison. She felt

pressure to produce intelligence. She later

graduated to Abu Graib in Iraq and got a medal

for her work. ?There?s just a few bad apples?,

was declared over and over again. Eric Lanmer

brushed it off as people being in ?crazy situations

and doing crazy things.?

It is ominous that Wood was trying to be more

butch than the boys. Lindy England, the young

girl that posed smiling with the naked humiliated

degraded prisoners, some on dog leashes, was

one of the most vulnerable in this male dominated

field. Other smiling young men and women posed

with dead bodies.

The U.S. soldiers were in Afghanistan and Iraq

illegally. Colin Powell, Chief of Staff, needed legal

arguments. They decided the President could do

what he wants in the name of security.

John Yoo of the Justice Department developed

assault protocols. It was a war on Article 3 of the

Geneva Conventions, supported by the Attorney

General, Alberto Gonzales, and Vice President Dick

Cheney. John Yoo said these extreme tortures could

include death. The U.S. wanted to discard the

constitution but could not. So they put a different

interpretation on it. President Bush was able to

pardon himself but not the soldiers.

Vice President Dick Cheney encouraged the soldier

to be more aggressive in dealing with interrogation

because ?these people are mean, nasty, dirty people?. [

Was he describing himself?]

In Guantanamo Bay Prison in Cuba, one of the

reason the U.S. holds onto this site is that they

think that Cuban and U.S. laws don?t apply

because it?s offshore. John Yoo said that the

military has ultimate say over prisoners there.

President Bush reminded the public that, ?These

terrorists are learning the meaning of American

?justice?.

December 2001 Al Katami, supposedly the 20^th

plane hijacker, was taken to Guantanamo Bay.

Gonzales and Yoo visited Cuba to figure out why

he kept resisting their torture no matter how severe.

Nothing worked. Sleep and sensory deprivation,

severe isolation, attack dogs, invasions by females,

forced to wear women?s underwear, strip searches,

enemas, forced to wear U.S. flag hat, restrained

from going to the bathroom. Dark, light, cold, heat!

All his sensory receptors were attacked. His heart

slowed down and he had to be hospitalized.

Hypnosis, shock and LSD were not used. This was

the entire arsenal that the CIA developed over the

past 50 years in conjunction with researchers in

Montreal.

Guantanamo Bay was turned into a torture

research center. They pretended to be investigating

Arab male sexual humiliation techniques and

phobias. Torture was called ?degradation?.

Shackled for long periods of time every which way!

Standing on a box, hooded and with [simulated]

electrodes attached to the body! Forced to stand

covered in shit with arms up and straight out as if

hanging on a cross.

Brilliant top scientists were hired such as Donald

O. Hebb of McGill University. He bragged he could

reduce people to a pulp in 48 hours through

isolation, goggles, earmuffs and so on. The U.S.

got very excited about this. Hebb told them the

price was destroying their sanity.

The soldiers said they need written instructions and

training on how to beat, assault and potentially kill

prisoners so they can break human rights and

Geneva Conventions regulations and not be held

responsible.

Professor Doug Cassel even described such threats

as crushing the testicles of the prisoner?s infant son.

This story is about how the greed of a few can break

people and pull down a whole society. These tactics

are the remnants of colonialism that trashes people.

The Americans have abandoned social wisdom. Old

colonial and imperial paradigms are breaking down,

though being pushed hard as a last ditch stand,

especially using violence to enforce their ways.

One tactic is to declare a state of emergency to get

around abiding by international law. They then give

themselves the right to interpret the Geneva

conventions as they see fit, calling it a legal

interpretation.

It is well known that the information gotten through

torture is not reliable. When the generals took over

Greece, they learned that nine out of 10 soldiers

would rather die than torture their people. The

generals used the ones that enjoyed torturing to

destroy a democratic government. Is the U.S.

looking for a class of people that is willing to torture

their own people?

The U.S. had set up a system in Afghanistan and

Iraq where the war lords recruited subjects for

thousands of dollars a piece. 83,000 were detained

without a single hearing, violating the rule of law.

Habeas corpus goes back to Roman law.

Less than 5% of those picked up by the U.S. had

any information. The other 95% were innocent by-

standers picked up by soldiers to serve as practice

specimens for the American military?s cruel and

macabre experimentation on torture methods.

Senior officers observed those who were adept

and could be used when martial law was imposed.

?Curve Ball? was tortured and eventually said there

was a connection between Sadaam Hussein and Al

Qaeda, which turned out to untrue.

Water boarding is called ?extraordinary rendition?.

The victims will tell the interrogators whatever they

want to hear. The Vice President defended water

boarding, ?We don?t do torture. Not as we define it?.

The FBI distanced themselves from the Secretary

of Defense. They said the best way to get

information is by breaking down barriers.

Experience, talent and patience are needed to get

worthwhile information. ?You are finished. Is there

something I can do for your kids??

They attacked human dignity and the sanctity of the

individual. Cruelty is the official policy, ?We have to

get tough?, they tell us. If we are going to stop this,

we have to be informed and act together.

Kahentinetha Horn

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