Cutting Off Arms and Crushing Children's Testicles: Welcome to the New Freedom
James Redford
Paramilitary Secret Police Kidnap, Detain, Torture Bilderberg
Investigators
Interrogators threatened to "cut off arms" during 6 hour marathon of
hell
Paul Joseph Watson, Prison Planet.com, June 29, 2006
Three Canadian citizens who visited the Brookestreet Hotel in Ottawa
to observe members of the Bilderberg Group earlier this month were
kidnapped, detained without charge and suffered the ordeal of a
marathon interrogation session and psychological torture--including
threats to "cut off the arms" of one of the victims.
The nightmare began on June 9th, the second day of the Bilderberg
conference. After being warned to leave the previous day, Joe Burd's
party of three left the site of the Brookestreet Hotel at 2pm where he
and Crystal Slack headed for a local bar, while Burd's friend,
electrician Don McCormick, rested in their rented vehicle which was
parked on a downtown street.
What happened next should chill the core of anyone who thinks that
westerners still live in a free society.
Joe Burd picks up the story.
"A military-grade task force involving local police, RCMP and members
of the 'Integrated National Security Enforcement Team' descended
around the rental vehicle with weapons pointed at Mr. McCormick. He
was abruptly and forcibly taken into custody from his vehicle, thrown
to the ground and kicked in head."[1]
After approaching the vehicle, Burd and his friend Crystal Slack were
also grabbed and kidnapped, taken to a RCMP holding facility, detained
without charges, harassed and interrogated for hours about their
connections to the "insurgent" and "threat to national security" Alex
Jones, who himself had been detained and interrogated for 15 hours at
the hands of Canadian immigration the previous day.[2]
They were the lucky ones.
McCormick was taken to a secret high security facility where he was
brutally interrogated without charge and mentally tortured for six
hours. He was accused of wanting to blow up the Brookestreet Hotel, as
the interrogators threatened to "cut off his arms" warning him that
they also "had his friends" in custody. This is the very definition of
psychological torture, the threat of physical harm and dismemberment.
One of the dictionary definitions of torture is, "dismemberment,
taking apart--the removal of limbs; being cut to pieces."[3] The
threat of extreme physical pain is a method used on suspected
terrorists and was also inflicted upon innocent prisoners at Abu
Ghraib.
McCormick's anguish at the hands of the Canadian Gestapo didn't end
there.
Interrogators told McCormick that he "would never be alone again" and
to "watch his back"--as he began to fear he would become the latest
victim of the worldwide rendition policy, and be taken to an Eastern
European gulag for further torture.[4]
McCormick was so stricken by the horror of his nightmare that many of
the details of what happened remained bottled up, partly from
threatened fear of reprisals if he told anyone what had occurred.
Finally being released and returning home the next day, McCormick
became delirious and had to be rushed to hospital after he collapsed.
He was diagnosed with severe dehydration and mental fatigue due to his
experiences in Ottawa. McCormick had to be sedated to help him sleep
as he babbled about having his arms cut off and interrogators
threatening to harm his friends.
From the experiences of Alex Jones during his 15 hour ordeal with
Canadian immigration officials, it was learned that the order to
impede Jones' party came directly from the Bilderberg Group itself.
With this knowledge in hand, it is by no means a stretch to assume
that the hellish treatment of Burd, McCormick and Slack was also a
mandate of the Bilderberg elitists.
These are the pleasures of the global elite and their security thug
enforcers--repression of free speech, intimidation, kidnapping,
grabbing people off the streets and treating them as terrorists, and
psychological torture--all carried out under the wilful arrogance that
they are protecting the nation from harm.
The real terrorists are the perverted bullies that kidnapped three
peaceful citizens and subjected them to a marathon of hell--and they
represent a threat to the freedom and way of life of all Canadians.
Click here [ http://prisonplanet.com/audio/290606burd.mp3 ] to listen
to an interview with Joe Burd.
Click here [ http://prisonplanet.com/audio/290606mccormick.mp3 ] to
listen to an interview with Don McCormick.
Notes:
1. "Terror Canadian Style," Joe Burd, TruthMovement.CA, [accessed June
28, 2006] http://www.fathers.ca/anyone_can_be_called_an_insurgent.htm
, http://www.infowars.com/articles/nwo/terror_canadian_style.htm
2. "Alex Jones Detained On Orders Of Bilderberg Group: 15 hours of
hell at the hands of immigration who knew they were coming," Paul
Joseph Watson, Prison Planet.com, June 8, 2006
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/june2006/080606alexjones.htm
3. "Torture," TheFreeDictionary, Farlex, Inc.
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/torture
4. "Bush 'Operating Secret Gulag in Eastern Europe,'" Andrew Buncombe,
Independent (U.K.), November 3, 2005
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/1103-04.htm
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Crushing Children's Testicles
John Choon Yoo ( http://www.law.berkeley.edu/faculty/yooj/ ,
http://www.law.berkeley.edu/faculty/profiles/facultyProfile.php?facID=235
) is a professor of law at the University of California at Berkeley
School of Law (Boalt Hall), one of the authors of the Patriot Act, and
is one of the main White House legal advisers on the use of torture to
President George Bush, Jr. Prof. John Yoo emigrated from South Korea
with his parents when he was an infant, and is now married to Elsa
Arnett, the daughter of reporter Peter Arnett.
Douglass Cassel (
http://www.nd.edu/~ndlaw/faculty/facultypages/cassel.html ) is the
Lilly Endowment Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Civil
and Human Rights at Notre Dame Law School.
The below excerpt is from a debate between Prof. John Yoo and Prof.
Doug Cassel on December 1, 2005 in Chicago:
""
Prof. Doug Cassel: If the President deems that he's got to torture
somebody, including by crushing the testicles of the person's child,
there is no law that can stop him?
Prof. John Yoo: No treaty.
Cassel: And also no law by Congress. That's what you wrote in the
August 2002 memo.
Yoo: I think it depends on why the President thinks he needs to do
that.
""
You can listen to the above exchange on the below audio clip:
http://rwor.org/downloads/file_info/download1.php?file=yoo_on_torture.mp3
(317,712 bytes)
The below audio clip is a longer recording which includes the above
exchange:
http://rwor.org/audio/yoo%20excerpt.mp3
See also:
"John Yoo Argues Pres. George Bush Has Legal Power to Torture
Children," Philip Watts, Revolution Newspaper (revcom.us):
http://rwor.org/johnyoo/index.html
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Since H.R. 3162, i.e., the "USA Patriot Act," was passed into law on
October 26, 2001 without the Congress or Senate even being allowed to
read it before voting on it, the police can now secretly search your
house and take whatever they want from it without having to tell you
about it until they issue you a warrant up to six months later (see
SEC. 213). Also, the legal definition of "domestic terrorism" was
changed to include any "acts dangerous to human life that are a
violation of the criminal laws of the United States or of any State"
(see SEC. 802)--which could quite literally be jaywalking.
Indeed, smoking a joint could quite literally be domestic terrorism as
defined under this law, since the U.S. government considers such drug
use to be dangerous to human life, and since it is illegal after all.
But such an act is supposed to only qualify if it "appear[s] to be
intended to influence the policy of a Government by intimidation or
coercion." So smoking a joint would only be an act of "domestic
terrorism" if the U.S. Government thinks a person is doing it as a
protest against their drug laws--the clause for "intimidation" already
applies, otherwise the U.S. government would have no law against it.
And since P.L. 107-40 (September 18, 2001) was enacted and Bush, Jr.
signed the November 13, 2001 Presidential Military Order, *habeas
corpus* has been done away with as U.S. citizens can now be held
indefinitely and in secret on the mere suspicion that they are in some
way involved in "terrorism" (which can now be virtually anything--see
the above redefined definition of "domestic terrorism") without even
being charged; they can be tried by a secret military tribunal where
they will not have the right to cross-examine their accusers; and they
can be executed in secret. Indeed, U.S. citizens have already been
held for years without any charges even having been filed against them
(such as José Padilla and Yaser Esam Hamdi), and the U.S. government
says that it can keep U.S. citizens that way indefinitely.
So it's not surprising to find that the U.S. government has been
torturing innocent people, including U.S. citizens. This includes U.S.
soldiers torturing people in U.S. custody to death.
"Pakistan: U.S. Citizens Tortured, Held Illegally--FBI Participated in
Interrogations Despite Apparent Knowledge of Torture, Abduction,"
Human Rights Watch, May 24, 2005:
http://hrw.org/english/docs/2005/05/24/pakist11005.htm
"Exclusive: Secret Memo--Send to Be Tortured," Michael Isikoff,
Newsweek, August 8, 2005 issue:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8769416/site/newsweek/
"Outsourcing Torture: The secret history of America's 'extraordinary
rendition' program," Jane Mayer, The New Yorker, Issue of February 14,
2005, posted February 7, 2005:
http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?050214fa_fact6
"CIA kidnapped terror suspects in the EU: lawmaker," Reuters, April
26, 2006:
http://go.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=11968389
Khalid El-Masri, an innocent German citizen, was abducted from
Macedonia and held by the U.S. military without charges from January
23 to May 28, 2004, during which time he was sodomized and tortured by
the U.S. military. He was taken by the U.S. military to Baghdad, Iraq
and then to the "Salt Pit" clandestine CIA torture center located
north of Kabul in Afghanistan.
"Khalid El-Masri," Wikipedia, June 25, 2006:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Khalid_El-Masri&oldid=60497313
"Lawsuit Against CIA Is Dismissed: Mistaken Identity Led to
Detention," Jerry Markon, Washington Post, May 19, 2006; Page A13:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/18/AR2006051802107.html
In the Bagram, Afghanistan U.S. military base, U.S. government
officials publicly admit that they're murdering Afghan inmates there
by torturing them to death:
"Afghan prisoners beaten to death at US military interrogation base:
'Blunt force injuries' cited in murder ruling," Duncan Campbell, The
Guardian (U.K.), March 7, 2003:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,909164,00.html
"Prisoners 'killed' at US base," BBC News, March 6, 2003:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/2825575.stm
"Army Details Scale of Abuse of Prisoners in an Afghan Jail," Douglas
Jehl, New York Times, March 12, 2005:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/12/politics/12detain.html
Included in the U.S. government's use of torture against innocent
people is the rape of women and male children:
"US military confirms existence of horrific pictures and video,"
Andrew Buncombe, Independent (U.K.), May 9, 2004:
http://www.rense.com/general52/erh.htm
Among other tortures, U.S. Maj. Gen. Antonio Taguba's report details
homosexual anal rape committed by U.S. soldiers. Also detailed in U.S.
Maj. Gen. Antonio Taguba's report and by other U.S. military sources,
Military Intelligence and the CIA ordered the torture at the Abu Ghaib
prison.
"U.S. Army report on Iraqi prisoner abuse: Executive summary of
Article 15-6 investigation of the 800th Military Police Brigade by
Maj. Gen. Antonio M. Taguba," NBC News, May 4, 2004:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4894001/
"Green light for Iraqi prison abuse came right from the top:
Classified documents show the former US military chief in Iraq
personally sanctioned measures banned by the Geneva Conventions,"
Andrew Buncombe, Independent (U.K.), April 3, 2005:
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0403-03.htm
"Pentagon Report Set Framework For Use of Torture: Security or Legal
Factors Could Trump Restrictions, Memo to Rumsfeld Argued," Jess
Bravin, Wall Street Journal, June 7, 2004:
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0607-01.htm
As Republican Senator Lindsey Graham said to reporters on May 7, 2004
concerning the pictures and videos of U.S. military torture of Iraqis
that the U.S. government still refuses to release: "The American
public needs to understand we're talking about rape and murder here.
We're not just talking about giving people a humiliating experience.
We're talking about rape and murder and some very serious charges."
See:
"Rumsfeld: Worst Still To Come--Pentagon Boss Apologizes To Iraqis;
Says More Videos, Photos Exist," CBS News and Associated Press (AP),
May 7, 2004:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/05/08/iraq/main616338.shtml
"Rueful Rumsfeld: 'Cruel' truth hurts: Rape and murder feared in Iraq
abuse," Noelle Straub, Boston Herald, May 8, 2004:
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.politics.economics/msg/53904eefc5efc3fa
And as Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said on May 7, 2004 before
Congress concerning the pictures and videos of U.S. military torture
of Iraqis that the U.S. government still refuses to release: "Beyond
abuse of prisoners, there are other photos that depict incidents of
physical violence towards prisoners, acts that can only be described
as blatantly sadistic, cruel and inhuman ... There are a lot more
photographs and videos that exist ... If these are released to the
public, obviously it's going to make matters worse. That's just a
fact. I mean, I looked at them last night and they're hard to
believe." See:
"In quotes: Rumsfeld faces Congress," BBC News, May 7, 2004:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3694995.stm
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The U.S. government has been training its troops and foreign NATO and
U.N. military for a long time (i.e., well before the U.S.
government-staged 9/11 attacks) in putting U.S. citizens in
concentration camps and for total gun confiscation.
Watch Alex Jones's first two Police State video documentaries (both
published well before the U.S. government-staged 9/11 attacks) where
you can see U.S. troops training with U.N. troops in disarming
American citizens and putting them into concentration camps, and
anouncing over their loudspeakers: "Be calm, there is food, there is
water in the camp ... violation of camp rules will not be tolerated
..."
They had American role-players screaming back at the U.S. and foreign
U.N. troops, "I'm an American! I'm an American! You can't do this to
me! I have rights!"
On Alex Jones's first two Police State video documentaries you can see
many more of these training exercizes conducted in other cities and
towns. Below you can watch Alex Jones's first two Police State videos
in full and for free:
Police State 2000 (published 1999):
http://www.archive.org/details/PS2000
Police State II: The Takeover (published 2000):
http://www.archive.org/details/PoliceStateII
There have literally been hundreds of these type of training exercizes
going on in the U.S. since the early 1990s. For example, see:
Operation Urban Warrior, Oakland, California 1999:
http://www.infowars.com/ouwmar9901.html
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http://www.infowars.com/Images/newouw/foreign_troops.jpg
Australian, British and other foreign troops training with U.S. troops
for total gun confiscation of U.S. citizens and in rounding up U.S.
citizens into concentration camps at Operation Urban Warrior, Oakland,
California 1999
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For more on this subject, see below:
"U.S. Can Confine Citizens Without Charges, Court Rules," Jerry
Markon, Washington Post, September 10, 2005; Page A01:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/09/AR2005090900772.html
"Reagan Aides and the 'Secret' Government," Alfonso Chardy, Miami
Herald, July 5, 1987:
http://www.theforbiddenknowledge.com/hardtruth/secret_white_house_plans.htm
"Martial Law Concerns," Congressman Jim McDermott, House of
Representatives, March 11, 2003:
http://www.house.gov/mcdermott/sp030311.shtml
Below are some archives for mainstream major media news articles
dealing with these gulag matters:
Primary Prison Planet Mainstream-Media News Archive on FEMA
Concentration Camps:
http://www.prisonplanet.com/archives_concentration_camps.html
FEMA Camps/Martial Law Archive:
http://www.prisonplanet.com/archives_fema.html
Habeas Corpus Archive:
The below archived news articles deal with how the U.S. government can
indefinitely hold U.S. citizens who have not been charged with any
crime (as the U.S. government has already been doing), and how U.S.
citizens in general can be tried by a secret military tribunal where
they will not have the right to cross-examine their accusers, and they
can be executed in secret:
http://www.prisonplanet.com/archives_habeas.html
Model States Emergency Health Powers Act (which has been passed on the
Federal level) Archive:
The below news articles talk about how the U.S. government can
quarantine whole cities and round U.S. citizens up to be put in
concentration camps in the event of, e.g., a bio-weapons release:
http://www.prisonplanet.com/archives_modelstates.html
Below are some additional documentation resources to learn more about
the FEMA concentration/extermination camps in the U.S.:
http://infowars.com/goodphotos.html
"Concentration Camps in Okanagon County?," Associated Press (via KXLY
News), February 25, 2003:
http://web.archive.org/web/20030408233829/http://www.kxly.com/common/getStory.asp?id=26857
http://www.prisonplanet.com/news_alert_022703_camps.html
Interview of Okanogan County Commissioner Dave Schulz:
http://www.prisonplanet.com/schultz_02_27_03.mp3
And see also:
"Foundations are in place for martial law in the US," Ritt Goldstein,
Sydney Morning Herald, July 27, 2002:
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/07/27/1027497418339.html
"Secret FEMA Plan To Use Pastors as Pacifiers in Preparation For
Martial Law: Nationwide initiative trains volunteers to teach
congregations to 'obey the government' during seizure of guns,
property, forced inoculations and forced relocation," Paul Joseph
Watson, Prison Planet.com, May 24, 2006:
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/may2006/240506femaplan.htm
--
James Redford, author of "Jesus Is an Anarchist," June 1, 2006 http://www.geocities.com/vonchloride/anarchist-jesus.pdf