Pier 57: Guantanamo on the Hudson

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Deze thread is voor de mensen die nog steeds geloven dat de Amerikaanse overheid de vrijheid koesterd.

Op 2600 News staat het verslag van een journalist die in 2004 aanwezig was bij één van de protestmarsen die gehouden werden toen de republikeinen hun nationale bijeenkomst hielden in New York. Tijdens de protesten werden meer dan 1000 burgers zonder reden of aanklacht aangehouden en voor meer dan 30 uur in een opslagplaats met resten van geftige stoffen opgesloten.

Zij kregen noch degelijke voeding, slaap of legale bijstand. Zij werden integendeel steeds geïntimideerd, verplaatst en uitgelachen door de politie. Tijdens hun "verblijf" werden zij beroofd van hun bezittingen en werden er uitgebreide rapporten met persoonlijke gegevens opgemaakt.

Naast de aanbeveling om bovenstaand artikel te lezen en de filmpjes en foto's bij het artikel te bekijken, geef ik dit filmpje (bron) waarin je het gevolg kan zien van de giftige stoffen.

't Leest allemaal nogal Orwelliaans, maar helaas, 't is geen fictie.

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Deze thread is ook bedoeld om meer van zulke gebeurtenissen in te posten.

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En blijkbaar hebben ze met pier 57 niet genoeg.

Halliburton Subsidiary Gets Contract to Add Temporary Immigration Detention Centers
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/04/na...erland&emc=rss

KBR would build the centers for the Homeland Security Department for an unexpected influx of immigrants, to house people in the event of a natural disaster or for new programs that require additional detention space, company executives said. KBR, which announced the contract last month, had a similar contract with immigration agencies from 2000 to last year.

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73.000 "Prisoners of War" uit New Orleans werden in Augustus 2006 nog steeds vast gehouden, zo goed als een jaar na Katrina!

On August 22nd, for LinkTV and DemocracyNow! we videotaped the thousands of Katrina evacuees still held behind barbed wire in a trailer park encampment a hundred miles from New Orleans. It’s been a year since the hurricane and 73,000 POW’s (Prisoners of W) are still in this aluminum ghetto in the middle of nowhere. One resident Pamela Lewis said, “It is a prison set-up” — except there are no home furloughs for these inmates because they no longer have homes.
To give a sense of the full flavor and smell of the place, we wanted to show that this human parking lot, with kids and elderly, is nearly adjacent to the Exxon Oil refinery, the nation’s second largest, a chemical-belching behemoth.

De journalisten die dit verhaal naar buiten brachten worden door de NSA voor het gerecht gedaagd wegens "unauthorized filming of a critical national security structure in Louisiana."

Bron: gregpalast.com

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In hetzelfde licht: Top Hurricane Expert werd bedreigd met ontslag bij Pre-Katrina waarschuwingen

On the eve of the first anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, investigative journalist Greg Palast reports that a top hurricane expert says government officials threatened his job over his warnings about the impending disaster.

Bron: democracynow.org

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Ze gebruiken hun "national security card" nogal dikwijls vind ik...

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Oorspronkelijk geplaatst door Akufen

Ze gebruiken hun "national security card" nogal dikwijls vind ik...

Tsja, als je iets onwettig moet goedkeuren is dat een bijzonder handig middel.

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Het is wel spijtig dat men het VS-bashen niet per kilo kan kopen...

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Oorspronkelijk geplaatst door CHIPIE

Het is wel spijtig dat men het VS-bashen niet per kilo kan kopen...

Vrees niet, ik zal je van genoeg voorraad voorzien.

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Mensenrechtenorganisatie maakt film over geheime CIA gevangenissen en martelpraktijken

De slachtoffer worden gemarteld, met valse aanklacht gearresteerd, onwettig vastgehouden, legale bijstand ontnomen, tot valse getuigenissen gedwongen, in mensonwaardige toestanden vastgehouden. Het martelen zelf wordt bijna uitsluitend uitgevoerd door operatives dewelke de nationaliteit dragen van het land waar de gevangene wordt vastgehouden, zoals Marokko, Libanon, Irak, etc. De slachtoffers worden gedurende lange periodes opgesloten, gaande van maanden tot jaren.

Gebruikte marteltechnieken:

• Vastbinden in pijnlijke houdingen
• Vasthouden in donkere ruimte
• Slaan en schoppen
• Snijden

De video kan hier bekeken worden. (bron)

De gebruikte technieken gaan verder dan wat de gewone mens als "martelen" zou beschouwen.

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Niewe videobeelden van "detetion centers":
http://www.infowars.com/articles/ps/..._FEMA_camp.htm

VIDEO: High Quality Footage of FEMA Detention Camp

Think Progress | September 17 2006



This is the one in Beech Grove but It's much sharper and larger.

I did some research on the "so called" furnaces and the white AGA Gas Inc. Cylinder.

The "so called" furnaces are exhaust fans.

AGA GAS Inc. Sells mostly asphyxiation type gases...you can verify this by doing a search via dogpile for AGA GAS Inc. and the look for web site MDS and they will list the gases.

In the video it shows a gas main, you can see there are 2 or 3 connections with regulators on top. Regulators are used to regulate pressure and gas mixtures.

It seems that this is indeed a death camp, for those on the red and blue list. It can process 26,000 people every 24hrs. The site has since been cleaned up to look inconspicuous

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Over het FEMA-kamp voor de slachtoffers van Katrina.

I just got back from a FEMA Detainment Camp

Dit zijn slechts enkele stukjes uit de hele tekst.

(9 september 2005)

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Jesse Jackson was right when he said "refugees" was not the appropriate word for the poor souls dislocated due to Katrina. But he was wrong about why it is not appropriate. It's not appropriate because they are detainees, not refugees.

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We arrived at our cabin and started toting the clothes in. We finally found a group of men upstairs in the dorms trying to do something alien to them - make beds. They had almost completed the room of bunk beds and told us we could go over to the ladies' dorm room and start on it. We lugged our sacks of clothes back down the stairs. Then we got the first negative message. "You can't bring any clothes in. FEMA has stated they will accept no more clothes. They've had 30 people sorting clothes for days. They don't want anymore." My mind couldn't help but go back over the news articles that have accused FEMA of refusing water in to Jefferson Parrish, or turning fuel away.

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We lugged the bags of clothes back to the car. We then turned to bringing in our personal hygiene products. That's when we learned our cabin had been designated a "male only" cabin. Approximately 40 men, ranging from age 13 on up would be housed there. We started resacking the female products and sorted out everything that would be useful for men.

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We then started lugging in our food products. The foods I had purchased were mainly snacks, but my mother - God bless her soul - had gone all out with fresh vegetables, fruits, canned goods, breakfast cereals, rice, and pancake fixings. That's when we got the next message: They will not be able to use the kitchen. Met "they" worden de "vluchtelingen" bedoeld.

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FEMA will not allow any of the kitchen facilities in any of the cabins to be used by the occupants due to fire hazards. FEMA will deliver meals to the cabins. The refugees will be given two meals per day by FEMA. They will not be able to cook.

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It gets worse.

He then precedes to tell us that some churches had already enquired into whether they could send a van or bus on Sundays to pick up any occupants of their cabins who might be interested in attending church. FEMA will not allow this. The occupants of the camp cannot leave the camp for any reason. If they leave the camp they may never return. They will be issued FEMA identification cards and "a sum of money" and they will remain within the camp for the next 5 months.

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We then lug all food products requiring cooking back to the car. We start unloading our snacks. Mom appeared to have cornered the market in five counties on pop-tarts and apparently that was an acceptable snack so the guy started shoving them under the counter. He said these would be good to tied people over in between their two meals a day. But he tells my mother she must take all the breakfast cereal back. My mother protests that cereal requires no cooking. "There will be no milk, ma'am." My mother points to the huge industrial double-wide refrigerator the church had just purchased in the past year. "Ma'am, you don't understand...

It could cause a riot."

He then points to the vegetables and fruit. "You'll have to take that back as well. It looks like you've got about 10 apples there. I'm about to bring in 40 men. What would we do then?"

My mother, in her sweet, soft voice says, "Quarter them?"

"No ma'am. FEMA said no...

It could cause a riot. You don't understand the type of people that are about to come here...."

I turn and walk out of the room...lugging all the healthy stuff back to the car. My son later tells me the man went on to say "We've already been told of teenage girls delivering fetuses on buses." My son steps toward him and says "That's because they've almost been starved to death, haven't had a decent place to get a good night's sleep, and their bodies can't keep a baby alive. I'm not sure that's any evidence some one should be using to show these are 'bad people'."

Tot zover wat "bad people" zijn...

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"Well, starting in the morning NO ONE comes in. So if you have further goods you want to donate you will have to take them to your local church. They will collect them until they have a full load and then bring them to the front gate."

Het volledige verhaal kan je hier lezen.