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This shit is nothing new. We did it to the VC/NVA in 'Nam, we did it to the people in Central America, you name it. We tortured and killed prisoners in all those trumped-up useless conflicts, generally under the auspices of the CIA, NCIS, and Army CID. The only difference: nobody found out, and if they did, they were coerced into silence, or killed/disappeared. I know a little about SERE School, too. I was forced to endure it in the early 70's to get my security clearance. It was Hell, but fortunately for me, it only lasted a little over 2 weeks, not months, or years.
This country has no moral compass, it lost its way years ago, starting with LBJ, and went totally rogue under Nixon, and has remained so since. The only differences during that time compared to now is that these tactics have been expanded and refined. (The CIA learned a lot of these techniques from captured Nazi interrogators and the records they maintained after WWII)
All the participants should be tried, convicted, and executed.
Period.
Truth be told, the "Company', along with it's various mutant offspring, have been cultivating these "Detention Centers"/ torture dungeons for decades. Started with the Cold War, and has been expanded since. It is possible that dozens of these shitholes are still operating worldwide, and with impunity.
...Rationalize, Rationalize, and Rationalize some more...Sure worked well at Nuremburg!
Face it, western women, particulary American women, are bred to be a pain in the ass. Brought up on and poisoned by Barbie, Cinderella and the rest of those hallucinatory manufactured life-styles, throw in a good measure of evangelical puritanism, a heap of Christian guilt, and presto, the perfect way to send a man to Hell on Earth. Asian women are nothing like that. They harbor no such illusions of reality. They live in the real world. Maybe that's why they're so easy to get along with...not to mention that they are gorgeous, slender, and polite without being pretentious.
It isn't just the capital crimes trials that have been twisted, skewed, and corrupted: It occurs throughout the entire legal system. Evidence gets "lost" or is tampered with by police, or they substitute the real evidence with more convincing articles. The police routinely perjure themselves at the behest of the prosecutor, the prosecutors "coach" their witnesses, and also the police who will testify, and the judges are all well aware of these misdeeds, but willingly go along with the subterfuge. All this to keep their conviction rates high in an attempt to get re-elected based on the fallacious "tough on crime" speeches they give, or their lust for the limelight.
I could go on and on about this, myself being one of the victims of what I call "Dirty Law"...In short, these bastards commit more crimes then the people they send to jail.
Do you have any idea what it is like to be in a bike club like SOA? These guys band together because they have their own set of rules, and those rules don't always run in line with what the establishment. Sure, it's OK for the US govt to sell arms, sell drugs, go to war and kill people...so what makes these guys any worse? For the most part, bikers like those in the HA, Outlaws, Pagans, etc., just want to be left alone. But the government and local authorities are scared shitless of them because they don't take crap from anyone. The government has to take issue and screw around with them, because they fear them, and it's the only way the assholes that run this country can sleep at night. This show is the most accurate representation of the inner working of a hard core, (the so-called "One-Percenters"), biker organization that I have ever seen. I was never "patched" but I know a lot of these guys, and the show is real, kiddo. It's one thing to sit in your chair, grinding out a story out about this show, but you, Lady, know nothing about which you speak. Next time, do some real research, instead of pulling a half-baked review outta yer ass.