About five days ago I posted a diary on this issue and didn't get one response. I know I'm just an average American and not a Senator with a PAC, but frankly I'm a bit upset about this...
Now please, don't misunderstand me. This isn't about me, or ratings, or being recommended. This is about peoples' lives. This is about our children. This is about speaking out for the mentally ill and children in these institutions who are abused! This is about speaking out against the privitization and corporatization of our prisons which are abusing people for profit! This is about TORTURE being committed against American citizens in our prisons, which is a violation of the Eighth Amendment to our Constitution.
THIS IS NOT AMERICA!
I don't know, did I just post that diary at the wrong time? Did no one see it? I can't believe no one cares. Our organization is hoping to garner enough signatures on this petition to send it to Congress, Governors, and hopefully even media outlets to show our total outrage at what is being allowed to take place in our prisons, which has now spilled over to places like Abu Ghraib. Where is the American peoples' outrage?
And imagine that the British Broadcasting Company does this expose' below, but not one American network can tackle it. I find that pathetic and shameful. Perhaps they need a little encouragement.
Anyhow, if you missed the diary I posted on this on March 30, here is the link to our petition again.
http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/notorture
Please sign our petition diary
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Torture Inc. Americas Brutal Prisons
Savaged by dogs, Electrocuted With Cattle Prods, Burned By Toxic Chemicals, Does such barbaric abuse inside U.S. jails explain the horrors
that were committed in Iraq?
By Deborah Davies
They are just some of the victims of wholesale torture taking place inside the U.S. prison system that we uncovered during a four-month
investigation for BBC Channel 4 . It's terrible to watch some of the videos and realise that you're not only seeing torture in action but, in the most extreme cases, you are witnessing young men dying.
Warning this video contains images and descriptions of violent and degrading treatment, which may distress some viewers.
Click here to watch this documentary. Windows Media.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article8451.htm