Chris Hedges' new TruthDig piece is pretty inflammatory stuff, pretty one-sided... and pretty much right on the money. The United States government has the authority to arrest, detain, and hold without charge or trial any person, including American citizens, and subject them to unbelievably cruel treatment, including physical and psychological torture.
"The extreme sensory deprivation used on [terrorism suspect Syed Fahad] Hashmi is a form of psychological torture, far more effective in breaking and disorienting detainees. It is torture as science. In Germany, the Gestapo broke bones while its successor, the communist East German Stasi, broke souls. We are like the Stasi. We have refined the art of psychological disintegration and drag bewildered suspects into secretive courts when they no longer have the mental and psychological capability to defend themselves."
It is not inconceivable that the laws currently enabling the government to round up Muslim men and women and put them away to rot in solitary confinement until they are vegetables could someday be used to round up opinionated peopole of any stripe, including environmental activists, anti-globalization activists, and journalists.
If I were somehow to scoop an interview with Osama bin Laden, you can bet I'd be on a list of suspected terrorists.
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