- Share links: brutality and torture. This article was written by Timeshifter, and is in the public domain. See also: Wars and drug wars on demand. And: Race, ethnicity, and drug war.
Deaths, beatings, torture, rape, searches, disappearances, terror, control, solitary confinement, stop-and-frisk, arbitrary searches, etc..
6 Jan 2020: More than 60,000 Mexicans have disappeared amid drug war, officials say. Washington Post.
13 April 2012: Human Rights Defender Kerry Kennedy Detained, Threatened by Mexican Military | the narcosphere. By Bill Conroy. Robert F. Kennedy's Daughter Nearly Meets Tragic Fate at Drug-War Checkpoint.
2012: Solitary in Iran Nearly Broke Me. Then I Went Inside America's Prisons. By Shane Bauer. November/December 2012 Issue of Mother Jones.
Eric Garner killed for cigarettes
Wikipedia: Death of Eric Garner. "I can't breathe". Choked to death for selling "loosies" (single cigarettes) from packs without tax stamps.
19 Aug 2019: Eric Garner: NY officer in 'I can't breathe' death fired. BBC News. From the article (emphasis added):
| In explaining his decision, Mr O'Neill said mobile phone video of Garner's death clearly shows the officer used a chokehold, which is banned by the New York Police Department (NYPD). ... Mr O'Neill said Mr Pantaleo's decision to maintain the chokehold on the ground is what led to his firing. ... A city medical examiner ruled the chokehold contributed to Garner's death. ... The firing comes as California enacts one of the strictest laws limiting police force in the US. |
Eric Garner. "I can't breathe." July 17, 2014
21 Mar 2017: Exclusive documents: The disturbing secret history of the NYPD officer who killed Eric Garner. By Carimah Townes. ThinkProgress. From the article:
| On July 17, 2014, NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo wrapped his arms around Eric Garner’s neck and squeezed. ... his final words, "I can’t breathe," became a rallying cry for the Black Lives Matter movement. ... a chokehold prohibited by the NYPD. |
20 May 2015: ‘I can’t breathe! I’m choking on my blood': Disturbing video of Black soldier dying in Texas jail. Died after "A two-day sentence for driving while intoxicated".
Cops kicking in the head
13 Apr 2017: Police: Georgia officer fired after kicking handcuffed marijuana user in the head. [1].
11 Nov 2019: Second St. Louis cop pleads guilty after beating undercover detective during protest. From the article (emphasis added):
| In one text message, Boone wrote, “It’s gonna get IGNORANT tonight!! But it’s gonna be a lot of fun beating the hell out of these shitheads once the sun goes down and nobody can tell us apart!!!!” ... On Friday, Hays pleaded guilty to one count of using unreasonable and excessive force against a fellow SLMPD police officer. He admitted to throwing Hall to the ground before kicking him in the face and beating him three to five times with a police baton. |
Social media, Facebook
Facebook:
- Police the Police.
- Stop Police Brutality.
- National Police Misconduct Reporting Project.
- Police State USA: Land of the Checkpoints.
- Prison Reform Movement.
Compilation links
- Police Brutality. The Free Thought Project.
- Police Abuse Sky-Rockets In US, Tied To Drug War Policies.
- Police Brutality.
- Cop Block. See Drug war page too.
- Communities United Against Police Brutality.
- Police Brutality. Breaking News for Black America.
- 10 Shocking Incidents of Police Brutality Caught on Tape. CounterPunch.
- Cop watch -- Policing the Police. See forums too.
- Cop Spotting.
- ToxicCops - Cops Gone Bad.
- PoliceAbuse.com.
- PoliceMisconduct.net.
- The Police Abuse Crisis. Veterans Against Police Abuse.
- Wikipedia: List of cases of police brutality. More links in "see also" section by country.
Stop-and-frisks, harassment
- Young, Black and Frisked by the N.Y.P.D.. By Nicholas K. Peart. December 17, 2011. New York Times.
- Tougher drug laws mean nearly 1/3 arrested by age 23. By David Edwards. December 19, 2011. The Raw Story.
U.S. torture training in Mexico
- "Torture By Mexican Government In Drug War Highlights U.S. Loss of Credibility On Human Rights". See Youtube video.
- "The Washington Post reports today [July 9, 2009] that the Mexican government has employed numerous torture techniques to extract confessions from suspected drug traffickers. The techniques included beatings, suffocation with plastic bags, electric shocks, the insertion of needles under suspects’ finger nails, water torture, and other abuses."
Disappearances in Mexico
Ten thousand dead and counting: Ciudad Juarez, the Mexican city that’s deadlier than Afghanistan. Dec 27, 2011. National Post. Chilling images.
- "The human rights commission of the local state of Chihuahua registered 1,250 complaints of torture, forced disappearances and extrajudicial executions by the army during its two-year deployment in Ciudad Juarez. It counts 400 similar grievances against the federal police who moved in when the soldiers were pulled out. These numbers document only 20% of the violations taking place, it estimates."
- "Human Rights Watch found there were 921 investigations opened in the military justice system for abuses in Chihuahua between December 2006 and May 2011 — more than any other state. Charges were brought in only two cases and no sentences were handed were down."
In A Drug War, Mexican Forces Accused Of Abuses. By Jason Beaubien. December 20, 2011. National Public Radio.
- "In November, the New York-based Human Rights Watch issued a report documenting more than 200 cases of kidnapping, torture and extrajudicial killings by the military and police."
Graphic: The ever expanding death toll in Mexico’s sprawling drug war. Last updated: Nov 1, 2011. National Post.
Indonesia
Drug-suspect rape and torture by police in Indonesia. See the links to the media articles (and quotes) found in the 2010 and 2009 sections of this Cannabis Wiki article: Jakarta, Indonesia.
Torture by U.S. police
- Jury Selection Begins in Illinois Police Torture Trial. By Karen Hawkins, Associated Press Writer. May 23, 2010. ABC News.
DEA holding cell without water
Daniel Chong, U.S. Man Left In Cell For 4 Days, Entered 'Survival Mode'. By Julie Watson. May 3, 2012. Associated Press article and MSNBC video. This was all over the news. From the article: "People can die from dehydration in as little as three to seven days, said Dr. Wally Ghurabi at UCLA Medical Center in Santa Monica. Ghurabi said Chong was wise to drink his own urine to stay hydrated."
I tell you what I think happened. He was in a holding cell without a toilet and the DEA agents may have heard some muffled screams and figured it was just some suspect complaining, and so why not let him piss on himself while others were handling the paperwork. The info on the video is incredible. Staff walked by. Neighboring cells heard him and some told him to shut up. So staff must have heard him and ignored him. From the article: "A federal law enforcement official familiar with DEA operations said the agency's protocols require that cells be checked each night."
Prison violence
- An Alabama Prison’s Unrelenting Descent Into Violence. By Campbell Robertson. March 28, 2017. New York Times.
Juvenile inmates in the USA
Articles:
- AP: 13,000 abuse claims in juvie centers - USATODAY.com. March 2, 2008. By Holbrook Mohr, Associated Press writer.
- "Torture Kids Instead". "The US state is a horrible parent; 12% of its 'detained' kids are sexually abused each year, versus 4% of adult prisoners. 0.3% of US non-prisoners report rape each year, versus a world median of ~0.05%."
- "Video shows deputy's alleged assault on teen girl." Article by KOMO-TV (an ABC affiliate in Seattle, Washington). See video. Deputy Shown Kicking Teen Girl. He hit her in the head while she was standing and while she was on the floor. He slammed her onto a concrete floor. He pulled her up by her hair.
- "King County deputy charged with fourth-degree assault on teen girl". By Mike Barber. Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
- "Former Deputy Paul Schene Says He Beat Teenage Girl Because He Was Afraid of Her". By Caleb Hannan. Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
- Forum: AP Raw Video: Deputy Shown Assaulting Teen Girl - Democratic Underground.
- ACLU Asks U.N. To Intervene On Behalf Of Montana Juvenile Prisoner - "placed in solitary confinement in the Montana State Prison when he was 17 and has been subjected to abuse so traumatizing that he has twice attempted to kill himself by biting through his wrist to puncture a vein. ... has been forbidden phone calls or visits with his family. Fellow inmates were so concerned for his well-being that they reached out to the ACLU of Montana for help on his behalf."
Police beatings and killings
Multiple videos of various brutal beatings of youths and adults by U.S. police:
- Phoenix Police Officer Caught on Tape Body-Slamming Drunk Teen Girl. ABC News. See various videos down the left column. Search for victims Chad Holley (Houston), and Ronald Bell (Chicago) on Youtube. Search for officer Patrick Larrison (Phoenix).
- Maryland police beating student John McKenna until unconscious and bloody. Video is Associated Press report. See April 15, 2010 Daily Mail article: FBI launch investigation as shocking footage of police beating a student provokes outrage across the U.S.. By Paul Thompson.
- 'Help me,' homeless man begs as cops fatally beat him in videotaped incident. By the CNN Wire Staff. May 8, 2012. With video.
US. Indefinite military detention
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See also: Newt Gingrich's deadly Drug War, extraordinary rendition, and Brutality and the Drug War. Also, "Night and Fog", the Nazi Germany program of disappearances, and indefinite military detention. Also, follow the money: Private prisons and private power.
- Senate Votes To Let Military Detain Americans Indefinitely, White House Threatens Veto. Nov. 29, 2011. Huffington Post.
- 60 senators betrayed you today, they authorized the indefinite suspension of habeus corpus (updated). WeAreChangeTV.us - Nov. 29, 2011.
- Bill Summary & Status - 112th Congress (2011 - 2012) - S.AMDT.1107. See list of Senators voting for and against. THOMAS (Library of Congress).
Torture, human experimentation
Some people do not know the depth of the long sordid history of torture and non-consensual human experimentation within the USA. See Wikipedia: Unethical human experimentation in the United States. Watch this 2008 video by National Geographic: CIA Secret Experiments. [2] [3]. It is about Project MKUltra. Click video to play it. It will enlarge. Video is also here and here.
Cannabis is safer
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Note: The following sections are at: Cannabis and more. The big picture. On most WeedWiki pages.
Trump Calls for Death Penalty for Drugs (Again). And: Trump’s Ominous Acting-DEA Administrator Appointment. [4][5][6]. And: Trump: “We’re going to be asking everyone who sells drugs, gets caught, to receive the death penalty for their heinous acts”.
See article: Cannabis is safer. Cannabis is just one aspect of the drug war. See also: Beyond drug war, debt, and wealth concentration. To single-payer healthcare and progressive taxation. See: History of US Republican-led war on cannabis, and their lies about its health effects. Note the Republican states (in the South, for example) in the map below.
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GOP War on the Poor
Return to top. Section link. See also: Trump GOP war on poor, sick, disabled, and drug users. Republican war on the poor, and middle class. Since low minimum wages lower wages above it too. The inflation-adjusted minimum wage peaked at over $14 in 1968 (see chart on page 2). It has halved in real value down to $7.25 today. The stolen wages went to Trump's billionaire club, and stayed there due to Reagan and Trump's gutting of progressive taxation via tax cuts for the rich. See CRS chart. "Study after study has found that raising minimum wages has a positive effect on employment." - John Driscoll, of Patriotic Millionaires.org - Sep 12, 2024 article. See Facebook: Patriotic Millionaires. And see many maps showing the failings of Republican states. [15] [16] [17]. GOP states overall (as in the South) have the worst cannabis laws, lowest minimum wages, worst healthcare, etc..
| US minimum wage would be $25.52 an hour in 2023 if it had kept up with productivity. The split coincided with Nixon's 1971 declaration of a War on Drugs. |
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| Wikipedia: List of US states by minimum wage. $7.25 states are majority Republican in both houses. Get PNG map noting GOP states. |
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| History of the US federal minimum wage. Over $14 (inflation-adjusted) peak in 1968. $7.25 an hour now due to Republican filibusters in the US Senate. |
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Billionaire tax rates
The minimal billionaire tax rates are maintained by the tyrannical 60% filibuster rule: What is the US Senate filibuster, and what would it take to eliminate it? Steep progressive tax rates on all types of billionaire income could be imposed by a simple majority through the nuclear option in the Senate.
See Wikipedia: Wealth inequality in the United States.
Google: Buy, Borrow, Die. Tax strategy of the rich to pay few taxes. See Google Images search, too. See the ProPublica video and articles: [19][20]. And other articles: [21][22][23][24].
First chart shows the absurdly low tax rate that billionaires pay on ALL their income, including untaxed capital and wealth gains.
| True US federal income tax rates for 4 very rich people if all wealth gains are counted as income. 2014 to 2018. See source. |
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Second chart shows the comparatively low tax rate that billionaires pay just on taxable income. So either way, billionaires pay a much lower percent of taxes than the middle class.
| Total taxes paid as a percent of taxable income for a few countries. By income group, and billionaires. |
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Republican states 2026
See article: US Republican (GOP) states. It is not just cannabis prohibition. Many maps showing the failings of GOP states. & Mirror. See category of these GOP-notated US maps. Note the GOP states in the South, for example. See category of these maps on the Wikimedia Commons.
In 2024 presidential election only 2 states voted unanimously red (Republican) or blue (Democrat) by county: Massachusetts and Oklahoma. You can google each of the rankings in the image below, and see that they are correct.
2024 election: Oklahoma map. And: Massachusetts map.
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All wealth to the top
Return to top. Section link. See Wikipedia: List of countries by household debt. All those stolen wages went to the minimally-taxed billionaire club that loaned it back to us. Since 1975, $79 Trillion Has Flowed From Bottom 90% to Top 1% in US: Analysis. Stephen Colbert satire video on billionaires. [27].
| Trends in the Distribution of Family Wealth, 1989 to 2022. Wealth concentration in 2022 dollars. Congressional Budget Office. |
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| Mean household net worth of the bottom 40% is in the red (in debt). See table 1. Image source. 2013 data. |
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| A Jan. 2, 2025 post at Facebook: Patriotic Millionaires. See source and comments. |
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Tax cuts for the rich
Return to top. Section link. See: 'Crystal Clear' Polling Shows Voters Oppose Trump's Tax Cuts for Rich. [28][29]. Tax cuts should only be for the middle class and poor; paid for by tax increases on the rich. Trump's 2024 election proposals cut taxes for the richest 5 percent, and raise taxes for other groups. 2025 proposal: New Projected Cost of Trump-GOP Tax Cuts for the Rich: 'Staggering' $7 Trillion. [30].
Trump tax proposals below. 2024 election. Average tax changes by income group in 2026. From: A Distributional Analysis of Donald Trump’s Tax Plan. Oct 7, 2024. Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy.
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Debt slavery by the rich
Tariffs (regressive taxes), low minimum wages, high medical and student loan debts. Republicans like them all. All wealth to the top. Loaned back to us to enslave us. Healthcare Insights: How Medical Debt Is Crushing 100 Million Americans.
See Wikipedia: List of countries by household debt. All those stolen wages went to the billionaire club that loaned it back to us. $36 trillion US national debt.
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Canadian healthcare
Save $1.5 trillion yearly
Save $1.5 trillion yearly in the US. Canada spent 11.2 percent of its GDP for total healthcare costs in 2022. US spent 16.6 percent in 2022. 5.4% is the difference. 5.4% of US GDP is $1.5 trillion dollars in 2022. Universal single-payer healthcare savings, and progressive taxation, could pay off the $36 trillion US national debt. Total average healthcare spending per person in 2022: $6,319 for Canada. $12,555 for the US. Yet Canadians have a longer average lifespan. Share link.
Save another couple hundred billion dollars a year by making age 17 the age of adulthood. This saves $15,663 on average in taxes for one year of US high school. Parents save a year of living expenses. Use it all for college and trade schools which is much more useful and desired. Cut taxes further by lowering US incarceration rates to Canadian and Western European levels. See Short PNG image of table below (for sharing on social media). The US can have BETTER healthcare, at a much cheaper cost by cutting out the useless middlemen (insurance companies).
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Canada vs US GOP
Return to top. Section link. Facts: Recreational and medical cannabis is legal across Canada. Republicans (GOP) block both in US. In Canada the average per-person cost of their single-payer universal healthcare is half that of the US. And Canada has a longer average lifespan. As for the US read a UnitedHealthcare denial horror story, and many more. [31][32]. Stats article: "The company dismissed about one in every three claims in 2023 — the most of any major insurer. That's twice the industry average of 16%". See Wikipedia: Medical debt. It's much higher in the US, though Canada has a lot of dental medical debt. Both the US and Canada do not adequately support dental health. But the Canadian Dental Care Plan is solving that problem now. US Republicans Voted Often to Kill Coverage of Pre-Existing Conditions. [33][34][35]. Republicans want to make Medicaid like UnitedHealthcare.
| Average annual health spending. US dollars (PPP) per person. OECD countries and more. |
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| Total public and private spending. $6,319 for Canada in 2022. $12,555 for the US in 2022. |
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Roswell. Warming
Carbon-free energy
And here on earth:
China’s BYD has a $16K “Tesla-killer,” as IEA finds EVs are an Oil Company-Killer.
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Section link. Much UFO technology has been back engineered, and its carbon-free energy could end global warming. See Steven Greer (SG) documentary: The Lost Century: And How to Reclaim It. [36][37][38][39][40]. SG documentaries for free: Tubi & [41][42][43][44][45] [46][47][48][49] [50][51][52]. JustWatch: [53][54][55] [56][57][58]. More SG media: [59][60][61] [62][63][64]. SG video channels: [65][66][67][68][69]. SG witness testimonies: [70][71][72][73]. His National Press Club events: 2023. 2001. See drstevengreer.com site. [74]. SG interviews: [75][76][77][78] [79][80][81][82]. SG's Disclosure Project Intelligence Archive. [83][84]. More SG info: [85][86][87] [88][89][90][91]. See also the David Grusch, David Fravor, and Ryan Graves disclosures at July 26, 2023 House hearing about US possession of aliens, alien bodies, alien craft, and back engineering: [92][93][94][95] [96][97][98][99][100] [101][102][103][104] [105][106][107]. Disclosure Timeline and Diaries. See: The Battle for Disclosure. (2024). [108]. See "The Program" (2024). [109]. See History channel: [110][111][112] [113][114][115][116]. National Geographic: [117][118][119][120]. See: Bob Lazar and George Knapp. See Rendlesham Forest UFO witness interviews. [121]. See Whitley Strieber interview. Other documentaries: [122] (scroll down).
See the July 8, 1947 Roswell Daily Record below. Image info. Click image to enlarge. Full-size is readable. See full text of saucer article. [123]. U.S. Army officer Walter Haut issued the initial "flying disk" press release. His 2002 notarized affidavit said there were 2 crash sites, and that he had seen a craft, alien bodies, and handled wreckage material. (see page 14 of pdf). It was released in a 2007 book after his death in 2005. The 20 paragraph 2002 affidavit is also online here: [124] (page 14). [125][126][127][128][129]. 37 witnesses to the Roswell shape memory foil. [130][131][132] [133][134][135]. Page 54 of Jesse Marcel, Jr. book. Crumple it and it uncrumples without creases. Did not exist in 1947.
July 8, 1947. See JPG page with full text transcribed.
Walter Haut in 1947. See JPG file.
2002 affidavit is on pages 239-242 of the 2022 edition: Witness to Roswell, 75th Anniversary Edition: Unmasking the Government's Biggest Cover-up (more eyewitnesses). 36 pages previewed in Google Books. Click "preview" button and scroll down to pages 239-240. Search within the book. There is an inexpensive Kindle ebook. Moonwalker Dr. Edgar Mitchell wrote the foreword.
Haut's daughter, Julie Shuster, in 2002, 3 years before his death, "verbally discussed each and every sentence" of the affidavit with him. She said it was not a deathbed confession. See Sept 2007 MUFON UFO Journal. Issue 473. Page 15. And this article from Special Broadcasting Service. Archived. See Julie Shuster on IMDb.
Google search: Walter Haut 2002 Roswell affidavit. Articles about Haut:
30 June 2007: Roswell officer's amazing deathbed admission raises possibility that aliens DID visit. By Nick Pope. Same article also published here and here. Archived here and here.
5 June 2022: Roswell officer's deathbed confession about theory of alien cover up. By Declan Carey. Archived here.
14 May 2021: Ex-Army officer ADMITS he saw ‘alien the size of a 10-year-old child’ after famous Roswell UFO crash in incredible video. By Emma Parry. Archived here. This article has a short excerpt of the video.
May 2021: Roswell Officer Speaks From the Grave: Video Released, Confesses that Alien was "the size of a 10 year old". By Anthony Bragalia. Archived here. From article (emphasis added): "This video clip is part of a memoir video / oral history over two hours in length that covers many personal and professional aspects of Haut's life. The video was taken at the Roswell Museum in 2000 with friends Dennis Balthaser and Wendy Connors."
August 3, 2024: The Roswell UFO story still resonates around the world 77 years later. By John Purvis (CBS4). Archived here. Article is on the KDBC-TV website: cbs4local.com
There are many books uncovering many witnesses to the Roswell crafts, materials, and bodies. A snip from a book review of this book:
| What the Generals Said about Roswell: - "It was a cover story, the balloon part of it ... That was the story we were told to give to the public and the news people, and that was it." Brigadier General Thomas J. DuBose, USAF - "The [Roswell] craft was extraterrestrial, and at one time may have been at Wright-Patterson in an off-limits area." Brigadier General Harry N. Cordes, USAF - "I am almost completely convinced that the object that crashed near Roswell was composed of materials not common on earth." Major General Kenner F. Hertford, USA - "The stuff I saw, I've never seen anyplace else in my life … It was the strangest thing I ever saw." General William H. Blanchard, USAF - "They [the Air Force] knew that they had something new in their hands … The metal and material was unknown to anyone I talked to … A couple of guys thought it might be Russian, but the final consensus was that the pieces were from space." [i.e., extraterrestrial] Brigadier General Arthur E. Exon, USAF - "Stealth technology comes from the Roswell crash … I have been informed by higher officers at the Pentagon that there still exists a Top Secret UFO Project … That's where your Roswell file is." |
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