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America is Gone. Welcome to Police State Amerika

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2. Hypothermia: The prisoner is left to stand naked in a cell kept near 50 degrees Fahrenheit (10 degrees Celsius), while being regularly doused with cold water in order to increase the rate at which heat is lost from the body.

3. Stress positions: Prisoners are forced to stand, handcuffed and with their feet shackled to an eye bolt in the floor (and/or wall), for more than 40 hours, causing the prisoners' weight to be placed on just one or two muscles. This creates an intense amount of pressure on the legs, leading first to pain and then muscle failure.[52]

4. Abdomen strikes: A hard, open-handed slap is dealt to the prisoner's abdomen. Doctors consulted over the matter advised against using a punch, which could cause lasting internal damage.

 5. Slapping: An open-handed slap is delivered to the prisoner's face, aimed at causing pain and triggering fear.

6. Shaking: The interrogator forcefully grabs the front of the prisoner's shirt and shakes them.

If they survive the trials of maybe being sent to another country that doesn't exactly follow the Geneva Conventions and maybe (or not) they return them to us, they are sent to Guantanamo. There, they are subjected to more "enhanced interrogation".

That's for so-called "prisoners of war". There have been cases of "Extraordinary Rendition". To be brief, this is when the CIA kidnaps people they believe are plotting against us. With no representation, they may or may not use their enhanced interrogation. They are either held in secret "black prisons" across the globe for years at time or sent to Guantanamo. What is disturbing about this is that they have done this for years.

 

The United States' Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) runs a global apprehension and incarceration operation of suspected terrorists, known as "extraordinary rendition" which from 2001 to 2005 captured an estimated 150 people and transported them around the world.[3][4][5][6] While the Obama administration has tried to distance itself from some of the harshest counterterrorism techniques, it has also said that at least some forms of renditions will continue.[7] Currently the administration continues to allow rendition only "to a country with jurisdiction over that individual (for prosecution of that individual)" when there is a diplomatic assurance "that they will not be treated inhumanely."[8][9] Prior to the Obama administration, rendered persons were reported to have undergone torture by the receiving countries, and it has been alleged that this occurred with the knowledge or cooperation of the administrations of the United States and the United Kingdom.

 

The link above is very interesting; anyone that is interested in what the government has done should read this.

 

Meanwhile, we were talking about the abolition of our Constitutional Rights. During the Bush administration;

Constitutional Rights We Have Lost Since 9-11-01

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