Remember Torture?
*Content Warning* war crimes, imprisonment
Remember torture?
Remember waterboarding? Abu Ghraib? The violation of habeas corpus? Guantanamo Bay? Remember how Bush and Cheney presided over the detainment without trial of brown people around the world as well as US citizens? Remember how they justified it as necessary for “national security”? Remember how TV networks put out shows like ‘24’ that brainwashed people into believing that torture was normal and necessary — even justified — despite how torture has been proven again and again to lead to faulty information, vengeful enemies, and even more death and destruction in the creation of extremist groups?
Remember how Obama campaigned to end torture? Remember how, when Obama became president, hardly anyone in the mainstream corporate media mentioned torture ever again, despite how Obama blatantly tortured Chelsea Manning, a trans woman veteran who is a whistleblower on US government corruption and war crimes? Remember how Obama suspended habeas corpus so that he and every president after him could detain people without trial indefinitely? Remember how Obama murdered US citizens without even charging them with a crime?
Remember how Trump is torturing Julian Assange right now, along with countless other detainees in prisons around the world? Remember how he’s doing this in the name of US…
