JAIL TORTURES CREATED ISIS
MONSTER
eastwind journals 183
by Bernie V. Lopez
At
the end of the U.S. 12-day invasion of Iraq, hailed as the greatest military
victory ever, the greatest military blunder ever began during the subsequent
occupation. The Sunni military elite of Saddam’s Ba’athist Regime, his most
vicious death squads, were jailed at Abu
Ghraib in Iraq. They were subjected to “physical and sexual abuse, torture, rape,
sodomy, and murder”, by the
U.S. Army and CIA, as reported by Amnesty
International and Associated Press
in late 2003. (Source - wikipedia.org-Abu_Ghraib_torture).
The anger and hatred of these mutilated
men, numbering 7,490 as of March 2004 is now directed towards the entire
Christian world, not just the Americans. They were released later in a general
amnesty and helped organize ISIS, the most brutal terrorist group on planet
Earth, resorting to beheadings and massacres, which launch the most successful
Internet global recruitment ever, the boomerang of the century. The
ant-terrorist creates more terrorists – more vicious, more resolute, more in
number.
an eye for an eye
becomes ten eyes for an eye
which becomes a
thousand eyes for ten eyes
this is the
vicious cycle of vengeance
geometric not
additive, blind with hatred
creating wars not just
of nation against nation
but of nation
against itself
home-grown
terrorism is the new monster
eastwind
vengeance is mine,
says the Lord
the
vengeful will suffer the Lord’s vengeance
ecclesiasticus 27:30
It is a strange phenomenon that in an
affluent society, people with deep mental disorders find their way into the
military to become the agents of terrorism growth as torturers. Lynndie England,
the most celebrated torturer in the Internet whose case went viral, was, as a
child, “diagnosed with selective mutism”, an anxiety disorder. Sabrina Harman, another
celebrated torturer, said at her sentencing, “My actions potentially caused an
increased hatred and insurgency towards the United States, putting soldiers and
civilians at greater risk.”
Major General Antonio Taguba, who first
exposed the tortures at Guantamo, reported in 2004 “that a detainee had been
sodomized with ‘a chemical light and perhaps a broomstick.’" He gave photographic
evidence of rape at Abu Ghraib. A detainee reported that “he heard an Iraqi
teenage boy screaming, and saw an Army translator raping him, while a female
soldier took pictures.”
The next step was authorization and
institutionalization of torture. The American Civil Liberties Union submitted to
the FBI in December 2004 documents on the “torture and abuse at prisons in Guantanamo Bay,
Afghanistan,
and Iraq”,
triggering on a global scale the radicalization of young Muslims to join ISIS
through the Internet. The best experts cannot contain this cyber recruitment
phenomenon.
An ”On the Scene Commander – Baghdad”
referred to an Executive
Order that sanctioned interrogation
tactics by US military personnel, such as sleep deprivation, humiliation by removing
clothes, and the use of dogs. He further said that “the Pentagon
had limited use of the techniques by requiring specific authorization from the
chain of command”. “This was the first internal evidence that forms of coercion
of captives had been mandated by the president of the United States.”
George Bush said the abuses were
“isolated incidents”, which was vehemently contradicted by the Red
Cross, Amnesty International, and Human Rights Watch., adding that the abuses “were part of a wider
pattern of torture and brutal treatment at American overseas detention centers”.
There was evidence that authorization came “from high up in the military
hierarchy”. Obama suppressed the release of gruesome photos because that would
put troops in danger and "inflame anti-American public opinion". In
employing authorized and institutionalized torture and rape, the US is today
facing a monster of its own creation. The victim is the Christian
world through home-grown terror, the culprit is the anti-terrorist, the
torturer and his supporters. Yet, no one is protesting. No one can stop it. The
home-grown massacres in Paris and London can be traced to this monster.
Later, the infamous Torture Memos
emerged, authorizing “enhanced
interrogation techniques”, arguing
that the Geneva Convention did not apply to American interrogators overseas. The
U.S. Supreme Court ruled that no one is exempt from institutionalized torture. Although
there were efforts to convict torturers, it was only at the lower level. Those
who rationalized and covered up the crimes and defended the institution were
not. “Many of
higher rank were not prosecuted”.
As long as anti-terrorism are handled by
‘terrorists’, terrorism growth will never be contained. It may be delayed by
assassinating a handful of terror leaders with drones, but a hundred more deadlier
terrorists rise. We are beginning to realize that perhaps goodwill remains the best
anti-terrorism solution.
forgiveness begets forgiveness
vengeance begets vengeance
forgiveness heals,
hatred consumes
forgiveness strengthens,
hatred weakens
forgiveness renews, hatred
destroys
forgiveness gives peace,
hatred brings war
The Birth of Home-Grown Terrorism
Home-grown
terrorism is the most deadly because it is committed not in the battlefield
overseas, but in the neighbourhood and when everyone is asleep. NATO’s vast
resources is not enough to contain the flood of refugees. NATO cannot police
the entire Mediterranean. An EU-Turkey deal may fail to stop the refugees. They
can build walls, set up barb wires, demolish camps but they still cannot
contain the refugees, who would rather die than go home. Thousands have
drowned. The traffickers are creative, finding loopholes, because it is a
multi-million dollar business. The refugees are an irresistible force and there
seem to be no immovable object to stop it.
our kindness for
the oppressed
has released an apple
of discord never before seen
perhaps the Lord permits
it to punish us
for our iniquities
have mounted
and we have
abandoned Him
as in the days of
the babylonian exile
we keep saying the
Lord has abandoned us
but it is us who
have abandoned Him
the hand of the
Lord is in our refugee crisis
Meanwhile,
the affluent host nations are at a brink of civil wars, brother against
brother, pro-refugee versus anti-refugee. Refugees are caused by wars and
poverty. We must stop the wars and uplift the poor as the final solution to the
refugee crisis, a monumental feat. War is no longer just abroad. It is in our
neighbourhood. Violence and anarchy will consume the big affluent cities in the
US, UK, EU. A new type of deadlier war is evolving, not nation against nation
but nation against itself. Paris, London, Berlin, Madrid are at the brink of
implosion. It seems the Refugee Crisis is beyond human intervention.
Home-grown
terrorism has evolved. The young refugees mingle with natives in affluent
cities, quietly working on menial jobs for years, until they are radicalized in
the Internet by drones killing women and children if only to take out a single terrorist
leader. Ten eyes for an eye. Bernie V.
Lopez. eastwindreplyctr@gmail.com.
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Meditation Corner
comes the darkness and the
frost
I get lost, I grow cold
till I find to my wonder
every path leads to You
all that I can do is pray
stay with me, stay with me
Song
from the movie THE CARDINAL
“Stay
with Me”, by Frank Sinatra
in
our darkest hours
in
the storms we have to endure
the
Lord is saying to each one of us
just
hang in there, I am with you always
in
our age of the increasing gap
between
rich and poor
not
sharing is a form of ‘stealing’
amdg
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