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23 CIA agents have been found guilty by an Italian court for abducting the Milan citizen Abu Omar into an Egypt “torture prison” in 2003. They were sentenced to five till eight years imprisonment. Rawstory.com has some … interesting details:
Craig Murray, the rector of the University of Dundee in Scotland and until 2004 the UK’s ambassador to Uzbekistan, said the CIA not only relied on confessions gleaned through extreme torture, it sent terror war suspects to Uzbekistan as part of its extraordinary rendition program.
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“I’m talking of people being raped with broken bottles [...] I’m talking of people having their children tortured in front of them until they sign a confession. I’m talking of people being boiled alive. And the intelligence from these torture sessions was being received by the CIA, and was being passed on.”
Sex Offenders in the US
In the United States, the most common age of sex offenders is … 14. Sex offense in this case usually means: getting caught experimenting. In many states, there isn’t a legal difference though to a 45 year old male raping a child. You’re a sex offender. You get registered for lifetime, in some states even with your data put openly on a website for everyone to access.
These kids usually get sentences far worse than if they’d killed a buddy brutally with a sledgehammer. A quote from the official report:
“[...] greatest number of offenders from the perspective of law enforcement was age 14 (figure 6). The frequency of offenders within age groups declined gradually with age, reaching half the peak frequency by the late 30s.
Blood Samples, Please
The news-channel NDR reported a couple of weeks ago, that the German car-manufacturer Daimler actually only employs people who “voluntarily” take a blood test. I don’t think I do have to comment on this practice … just add that it still is illegal in German to test the blood for e.g. hereditary diseases et cetera, but of course nobody knows what they do with it. More importantly, nobody knows how they store the information. After around 100.000 data loss affairs this year in Germany … I’d be more than careful.
Anyway, the funny thing is: a week later, the newspaper TAZ writes that the NDR itself is also asking his employers to be to “voluntarily” (cough) give away a blood sample.