Prisons, US, Human Rights and Hypocrisy.

Another prisoner has a broken ankle. He can’t crawl fast enough so a guard jabs a stun gun onto his buttocks. The jolt of electricity zaps through his naked flesh and genitals. For hours afterwards his whole body shakes.

Where do you think this scene is from?  Abu Gharaib, right?  The prisoner?  Some Middle Eastern terrorist, right? And the guard is definitely American.  Bingo.

Well last one is the only fact right!  The prison is in Texas.  The prisoner is an American.  The year is 1995 when George W Bush was the Governor of Texas.  And this treatment is not one-off mistake or a contractor’s misdemeanour against the Army policies.  It is an endemic way of life in prisons across the US!

This has been unveiled by BBC on a Channel 4 film.  They have videos to confirm all that.  Strangely, there is no one to talk about that.  The hypocrisy of the faithfuls and those whose heart beats for democracy is breath-taking!  This is the movie with the details..

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