The Cost of "Freedom"

Watch the hole video and remenber it next time to fill up the tank of you SUV.

Images you don´t see on American TV

America's war on turists

I was connecting from Grand Cayman to London via Miami after visiting one of my six grandchildren. I had gone through immigration, but suddenly an announcement came over the Tannoy asking for me. When I contacted an official I was marched away and shoved into a room with two others – no explanation, nothing. It was absolutely awful and very frightening. I asked why I was there, but they wouldn’t say. I was having visions of Guantanamo Bay.

After an hour and a half I was told I could go. I was furious and demanded an explanation and was told: “We don’t want undesirables in our country. Next time I advise you use hand cream, as your fingerprints have come up as those of a known terrorist.”

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Are We Disappearing Children?

Today, six human rights groups released a report (pdf) on 39 people who they think the US government might be holding in undisclosed locations, and whose location is presently unknown. (Thus, they are not counting anyone known to be at Guantanamo or Bagram; just people who are missing.) That we have disappeared anyone is shocking, and a violation of treaties we have signed and ratified.

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