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• Monday, December 1, 2008 08:22 AM

  Punishing Charles Graner to death ?

  In 1998 I participated in Amnesty International's worldwide campaign to inform people about the extent of human rights violations perpetrated by the U.S. government, on U.S. soil, and abroad.

  One of the most terrifying aspects of those violations is the multiplication of solitary confinement, and the military-industrial prison industry which is now omnipresent in the United States, and has obviously managed to export itself all over the world (not just in Irak or Cuba...)

  For information, the treatment that Charles Graner is subjected to is standard operating procedure in death rows all over the U.S., and in maximum security prisons. And the U.S. now has over 3,000 people incarcerated in death rows, just in those states which retain the death penalty.

  Obviously, detainment conditions only serve to increasingly dehumanize both those who detain (prison guards, for example...) as well as those who are detained.

  But... consider this :

  Since the same institutions ultimately responsible for these conditions (high level military, the Pentagon) are also responsible for the technology that deepens our alienation by brutalizing us on a daily basis (video games... conceived for just that purpose), when will we decide to JACK THE LOT, ON OUR SOIL AND ABROAD ?

  Consider that at the beginning of the 1970's, high level deciders were talking about getting rid of prisons :VERY EXPENSIVE AND A VERY BAD RETURN ON INVESTMENT...

  —Frenchie Read Frenchie's other letters
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