Larisa Alexandrovna: We just might learn some truth today

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We just might learn some truth today

Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity.
-Lord Acton

The public demands accountability, as it should, and transparency, as it should, but forgets to participate in making either of those things possible. For several years now, the ACLU has been fighting to have released the documents, photographs and videos, of detainee abuse under our misguided "noble cause."

Today, August 30 - the court will allow the "People" to hear the government's case on why the rape of children, for example - under Project Copper Green - is conducive to winning the war on terror. Perhaps the argument will not be made in those explicit, honest terms, but the substance of the crimes discussed and our need to know about them will be evident even if buried under mounds of legal verbiage.

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Part of the hearings will be redacted, but the whole hearing may as well be behind closed doors, given the little interest the public has shown for this case. The "People" are missing from the one moment in which their physical presence is not merely symbolic, but actually and fully active, in making the difference on how the court rules. The moment our country was hijacked into grief and fear on 9/11, the DOD began to conceive of a policy in which torture, rape, and murder would become the tool of choice for the American military-industrial-complex.

We, the "People", do not know how many "un-Americans" and labeled "terrorists" have been tortured, raped, and murdered and how many are still, to this day - at this very moment - being abused by hired contractors and industrial-grade sadists. We don't know who these "detainees" are or for what reasons they are being held. What we do know is beyond inhumane. Imagine the horror of what is buried in the crypts of a decadent government and its destructive power lust. Imagine what we do not know.

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Today

Location:

Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein
U.S. District Court
500 Pearl Street, Room #910
New York, NY 10007-1312

Resources of Information:

ACLU FOIA - http://www.aclufoiatorture.org/

Source Watch - http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Abu_Ghraib