a camp where non-combatants of a district are accommodated, such as those instituted by Lord Kitchener during the South African war of 1899-1902; one for the internment of political prisoners, foreign nationals, etc., esp. as organized by the Nazi regime in Germany before and during the war of 1939-45.

Today an innocent man arrested without due cause was released. Sami al-Hajj had been held prisoner by US forces for 6 years without ever being charged with any crime. Before he was illegally detained by imperialist invaders he was working as a photographer for Al Jazeera.

During the first year he was held in the US concentration camp without being charged with any crime. He had no rights according to Our Glorious Christian Leader.

During the second year he was held in the US concentration camp without being charged with any crime. He had no rights according to Darth Cheney.

During the third year he was held in the US concentration camp without being charged with any crime. He had no rights according to Donald "Death Star" Rumsfeld.

During the fourth year he was held in the US concentration camp without being charged with any crime. He had no rights according to Co-Conspirator Rice.

During the fifth year he was held in the US concentration camp without being charged with any crime. He had no rights according to Alberto "Torture Time" Gonzales.

During the sixth year he was released from the US concentration camp without being charged with any crime. Nobody has apologized for holding him prisoner for 6 years with no charges.

We do not know how often he was tortured, but we do know who authorized the torture.

Since he was never charged with any crime at all, not even littering, what shall we presume about his guilt or innocence? Is there any presumption to be made about a person's guilt or innocence? How about if a person has not only never been convicted of a crime, suppose they have never even been charged with a crime - are they still guilty?

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The memo was written by John Yoo, who was then deputy assistant attorney general for the Office of Legal Counsel under Alberto "Torture Time" Gonzales, a primary enabler of faith-based torture initiatives.

While the so-called legal opinion does not actually say that Our Glorious Christian Leader answers directly to God, it has been widely reported that God told Our Glorious Christian Leader to engage in an illegal conspiracy to promote a war of aggression based on a pack of lies.

Of course since Jesus H. Christ told Our Glorious Christian Leader that he should invade Iraq this means he was delegating authority, and with authority directly from his Imaginary Bearded Sky Daddy, it seems obvious that Our Glorious Christian Leader should not be subject to the laws of mere mortals. Praise Him!

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He became very quickly discouraged when he saw the immoral deeds ordered by the first war criminal President in US history.

"Inside the interrogation room, it would be 10 to 20 degrees [F.] with loud music playing. And there would be the detainee shackled to the floor by his hands and feet with nothing to sit on, with loud music playing in the freezing cold."

This is evil. Pure evil. Raw evil. The kind of evil that only a person as low as Darth Cheney would enjoy. And George W. Criminal likes to tell us what a great fucking Christian he is, how he prays to Jeebus, and how Jeebus tells him to invade perfectly innocent nations based on a pack of lies.

Another veteran of the US torture apparatus, former sergeant Domingo Rosas, says that he was assigned to torture prisoners by preventing them from sitting down, laying down, getting any sleep. He witnessed other US soldiers using other torture techniques approved by Our Glorious Christian Leader, the official spokesperson for American Christianity to the rest of the world.

"I witnessed one detainee rolling around in the mud being kicked again and again," he said. "I saw the interrogator pouring water on his face, waterboarding him. And another detainee was standing there with a bag over his head and was forced to carry a huge rock until he couldn't do it anymore and collapsed. That image seared itself into my mind's eye and I can't forget it. I won't forget it."

These are the actions authorized by Our Glorious Christian Leader, on the advice of Donald "Death Star" Rumsfeld, with cheerleading provided by Darth Cheney, and publicity handled by by Co-Conspirator Rice and Once Respectable Powell, press releases by Rupert Murdoch. Check back for any future news about war crimes trials.

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We all agree that it is morally wrong for our enemies to torture their prisoners. The US Government has often criticized the practice of torture as conducted by small dictatorships. Among the many reasons often used as a la carte rationalizations of the illegal invasion of Iraq is the fact that Saddam Hussein was torturing his own citizens. Any civilized nation would naturally reserve torture for foreigners.

Maybe Our Glorious Christian Leader would be willing to sign a bill that outlaws torturing just Americans, but not foreigners. Of course, on the other hand, maybe he would veto such a bill too.

Usually when Our Glorious Christian Leader vetoes a bill that would outlaw torture he says stuff like "We don't torture" which is probably just as true as everything else that he says on the subject. Still, I'm not sure if he used that line this time. I'm still waiting to hear him say "We don't torture, that's why we vetoed this bill. Because it would outlaw torture. We don't torture, but this bill would interfere with our ability to collect information."

Our President who frequently says we don't torture did say

"The bill Congress sent me would take away one of the most valuable tools in the war on terror"

Only the Party of Jesus is ready to defend your right to be tortured, and they'll torture you if they have to in order to Protect Freedom™!

Maybe we need a faith-based torture program, we could ask people how much they love Jeebus now as we increase their height, or give them swimming lessons while they are laying on their backs. We could call the new faith-based torture program some snappy name, like the Spanish Questioning or the Spanish Enhanced Interrogation Technique. I hear they have lots of faith-based interview technique training manuals in Rome at that little nation state with the guys in dresses.

We could have a new federal agency that handles "interviews", the BEI (Bureau of Enhanced Interrogations). Why it's a whole new industry.

How much safer does Our Glorious Christian Leader make you feel?

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