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brothers morning nineteen-year-old left behind return returned back home to the
united states after one month of detention in kuwait
body was a u_s_ citizen
is the u_s_ has
race in virginia
and traveling overseas to visit family in st air a bit
behind was denied entry back to the united states
is is named pierre enough loyalist
according to his own account this u_s_ citizen
was taken from the kuwaiti airport when identified location
handcuffed and blindfolded
and was then beaten and tortured for a week by kuwaiti officials
at this the civic be has to request for the u_s_ government
following his intense enhanced interrogation sc
mohammed was transferred to detention facility for weeks all's family back in
virginia sought legal remedies to bring him home
finally arrive back in the states this morning he was interviewed by the f_b_i_
again
without a lawyer
so here we have a u_s_ citizen traveling abroad
denied re-entry into the united states tortured for a week
and detained for a few more
all by the authority
of the united states government
bahamas lawyers are now suing the department of justice
now we don't know all the details for mohammed's if the all the details of
muhammed's true true
we do know
that the u_s_ is employed torture as recently as two years ago
and using indefinite detention
to this day
president bush
home and exit admitted it
and they civil liberties groups allege that the no-fly list
is really a tool by which the u_s_ government can justify the interrogation
and attention
a certain individuals abroad by foreign government facials
as likely u_s_ turns a blind eye too harsh interrogation tactics carried out
by these foreign officials
this is where we are today
in our world on terror
think back for a moment
to america pre bush
what our reactions between u_s_ citizen tortured and detained against his will
what our reaction be if the score sure was perpetrated by the u_s_ government
this seems to be a great
apathy
weird desensitization
settling over the american spirit
or the last decade a fundamental shift has occurred america
we now routinely sacrifice human rights
on a mass scale
in the public eye
in the pursuit of security
and the shift continues
unnoticed
it's not reported in the mainstream media
it's not debated in the halls of congress
quietly creepy
we figure out the words of one of our founders
benjamin franklin
when he said they wouldn't give up a central liberty to obtain a little
temporary safety
deserve neither liberty
nor safety
sure this happened before one day our nation woke up and realize we in turn
u_s_ citizens in the concentration camps we did two americans of japanese
ancestry during world war two
or we were on the lives of thousands of citizens
by way of a manufactured which one is communist
our nation's hypnotized by mccarthyism nineteen fifties
harking back to that date republican peter king internal online security
committee
is launching investigations as we speak
into american-born communities
for similar
on american activities
this
is
u_s_ citizens are being detained
and tortured
and we need to be aware of it
because if we are will repeat the mistakes of the past
or worse
in american writer milt mayor
they thought they were free
it was about the smoke free
of the rise of nazism
in germany
and why good german citizens did nothing to stop it
mayor in his book uses who is a journalist
his journals in chicago
and right after world war two he went over to germany and interviewed ten
good germans people who never joined a nazi party
infragistics me atrocities
and yet didn't speak out or try and stop anything a college professor a baker out
you know above right here people
and here's what they told him this is he's actually in this case quoting
a college professor
that he interviewed
the stall said
what happened here
who's the gradual habituation of the people
little by little
to being governed by surprise
to receiving decisions deliberated in secret
to believing that the situation was so complicated
but the government had to act
on information which the people could not understand
or so dangerous
even if the people quite understand it
it could not be released
because of national security
and one day
the world you live in
urination
your people
it's not the world you were in it all
the forms are all there are all on touched all reassuring the houses the
shops the jobs the meal times
who visits the concerts this summer the holidays
but this spirit
which you never noticed
because you made the lifelong mistake
of identifying it with the forms
the spirit
this chain
and is now
you live in a world of hate and fear
and the people who hate and fear don't even know what themselves
when everyone is transform
no one is transfer
now you live in a system
which rules without responsibility
even to god
just because everything looks the same around us
president our spirit
remains intact
what some of the story of cool that mohammed ignored
this is a wakeup moment for america
was not what the story of those in vietnam
you no
that was a campaign promise
of president obama
as long as our
human rights abuses continue
our spirit will rot away
and this nation will continue to draft
in directions and none of us
whatever we want
let stand up for the ideals of the enlightenment on which this country was
founded
government by and for the people
f proper respect for those people's human rights
and reject the fear
peddled by the bushes
and she needs
we are better
than that fear
we are not a fearful nation
and franklin roosevelt said we have nothing to fear but fear itself
that was the human time