Suspicions Were Right; Ed and Elaine Brown Were Tortured

In the first interview with Ed Brown since he and Elaine were kidnapped 2 weeks ago by U.S. Marshals and the government on charges of an imaginary income tax law, long-time supporter and creator of Make The Stand Shaun Kranish was able to get through with the Ohio prison and record a 10 minute interview (mp3 audio included) with Mr. Brown. He confirmed, with a horribly raspy voice, that in fact there was torture involved. He talked about being tasered multiple times and thrown to the ground during the time of the arrest for absolutely no reason, being sent to a detention center where he was enclosed and gassed through the ventilation system for very long periods of time that lasted for days, Elaine being gruesomely tortured to the point that he would not disclose any of the information, and who knows what other things went on that weren't told about. And now he is in an Ohio prison away from anyone that can help him, still freezing cold from the gases so bad that he can't even walk outside, in a tiny cell that can only be described as solitary confinement.

Elaine's son has been barred from talking to his mother, and Ed has not been able to make any phone calls, or send any mail out. The local police in Lebanon housed the couple for some time. They had no business doing that, and it shows that the local cops there have no respect for the rule of law either. They are supposed to be our protection from a criminal government. I am going to really try hard and get personal information on anyone and everyone involved, and that includes the two weaselly judges in New Hampshire that think they can just rule against the law in an unfair trial, then back out of future related trials after getting a little deserved heat thrown at them. McAuliffe's has already been released to the public, although I'm not sure it is still available, but perhaps it needs to be spread anyway. That is what happens when you turn against the people of a nation in favor of big government. They are all domestic enemies working for the most evil government in U.S. history. If our information is out there for their disposal so they can commit warrantless searches, spy on us, and cough up bogus trials, then their info should be as well. This is your government. It is your duty to at least get the information out to your fellow citizens. Either start helping now, or have this kind of thing happen to you when martial law is thrown into your lives. Some people said the movie 'Enemy of the State' was pure nonsense, that it just added unneeded fuel to the 'nut-jobs' out there, and that it could never happen to us. I don't know how anyone can think that now.

'Supreme Disgrace' Is Right

That was the title of an op-ed in today's New York Times opinion column after Tuesday's ruling the slimy U.S. Supreme Court made in the case of Khaled el-Masri, the German citizen of Lebanese heritage who was allegedly kidnapped by the CIA in a case of mistaken identity, where he was then tortured extensively, interrogated, and sent to Afghanistan where he was detained for months. Since extraordinary-rendition was allowed to grow thanks to Clinton, it has become increasingly clear that the government wants to use the "war on terror" as a way to gain full control over anybody and everybody they deem fit.

They ruled in the case that this man's human rights were less important than disclosing "state secrets." That is what you call an admission of guilt, but they're just not willing to pay for their own actions like they want us to. They don't even want us to have the chance. How is the world going to view this, not to mention adding it to our already scarily bad foreign policy? Our administration wants the world to follow their orders, and follow their ideas of how they should live and run their countries, but yet they pull something like this. This administration has a stranglehold over our judicial system, and it has to stop. The Supreme Court turned down an appeal without a single comment, and the use of the state secrets doctrine is all they could come up with in not even willing to hear the case. Our judges no longer represent law or the common citizen, but lawbreakers in our own country who hide under the phrase "national security." What national security? They are taking that away whether we like it or not. While they have the typical sheep here terrified of other groups of people, they're destroying our sovereignty right under our own eyes daily in cases like this.

This proves that the majority of our judicial system has no desire to grant the will of the people in this country, or follow the rule of law as the constitution states. This is no longer a democracy. We're living in slave-state of tyranny under ruthless dictators, and if some citizens of this country feel the need to vote in another dictator candidate, they deserve the same tragic fate that should ultimately come down to their rulers. Judges Thomas Selby Ellis III and Robert King, CIA director George J. Tenet, and CIA director Porter Goss are all fully to blame for this atrocity (can't forget Bush), but definitely not limited to, and all anger should be directed towards them. Germany should further release all names they have found involved in this illegal act for all to see, and against the will of our increasingly unstable government. If we're supposed to pay for our actions, they should be too, right?