I just watched Taxi to the Dark Side

[Th1onein]

And I'm going to say it: "I am so ashamed of my country." I am.

Jesus Christ! What has this administration brought us to? This is not what this country should stand for. It's no wonder we've got police brutality galore in this country right now.

The fish rots from the head down.

[Perry Logan]

1. This isn't over till every Republican degenerate is driven out of our country.

[superkia]

5. If we continue to walk with blinders on, nothing will change. This is...

NOT a republican issue only. As long as Americans keep thinking that the bad side in WWE wrestling are actually bad and the good side are actually good, we will lose. WWE rakes in a ton of money and they are all friends with that same agenda. This is not a one sided political problem! We have democrats that are not weak, they have the same agenda but have to act like they are for us or we would revolt. The media then tells us they are weak and we run around like parrots saying the same things that the agenda driven media tells us. Everyone does realize that the media is controlled by people with a certain agenda...right? One political party wouldn't just walk in and do anything they want with no consequences unless the other party just sits back and allows it, the people who still think this is a one party problem, aren't people...they are the so called sheeple that enable the corruption to continue.


Wake up America and stop spreading the one party evilness before its too late! We are the enablers to the corrupt and unless we open our eyes, its pretty much over.

[Solly Mack]

2. Me too

and without the guilty being held accountable I don't know how to find my way back to feeling any other way

Allowing a war criminal executive to go free doesn't inspire hope or a promise of better things to come (for me anyway)...it just translates into more shame...more disgust...more contempt

[JohnyCanuck]

3. It's posted on Youtube and to the Political Videos forum on DU

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x103221

Alex Gibney’s TAXI FROM THE DARK SIDE is a perpetually shocking documentary about the Bush administration’s use of torture when dealing with political prisoners, with a particular focus on those captured in Iraq and Afghanistan. The title of Gibney’s movie is derived from the treatment meted out to an Afghani taxi driver named Dilawar, who was mistakenly fingered as a terrorist, then killed during a torture session conducted by American troops. Despite the title, Dilawar’s case is just a small part in Gibney’s jigsaw, as the director uses excruciating and comprehensive details surrounding the taxi driver’s death as a starting point in his search for the people who have permitted such incidents to occur.

Three-Stomp Blues: Vets Tell True Stories of the Terror War

Written by Chris Floyd
Monday, 03 March 2008

I. Absence of Evidence

There are many things that the American people are forbidden to know by the immensely profitable organizations that control the dispensing of information in the United States. Some things will simply not be reported, others will be distorted or sugar-coated or shellacked with fabrications until they bear only the most tangential connection to the actual events being "reported."

One of the most forbidden topics of all, of course, is the savage reality of the conflicts being fought in the name of the so-called "War on Terror." This global war – launched solely to advance a long-held, openly acknowledged militarist agenda of global domination by an authoritarian, lawless elite – has slaughtered hundreds of thousands of innocent people, while corrupting and brutalizing the soldiers ordered, under knowingly false pretenses, to carry out the Dominators' sinister agenda. But the full story – and full force – of the crimes being committed every day in America's name, by American forces, at the command of America's leaders, are hidden from the American public by the American media. It is entirely possible to live your entire life as an active, engaged member of American society, diligently keeping up with the latest news from the most respectable sources, and never once have to confront this horrifying truth. The information-dispensers will not provide it for you; you have to seek it out yourself.

Fortunately, British newspapers still retain vestiges of a more active, unblinking journalism. (Although these remnants are fast disappearing, as Nick Davies notes in his grim but accurate survey of the UK press, Flat Earth News.) This week the Sunday Times gave a display of this dying art, in a remarkable report about the Iraq Veterans Against the War, and their preparations for another "Winter Soldier" gathering next week, echoing the landmark 1971 conference of disillusioned Vietnam Veterans. As the paper notes, veterans of both Iraq and Afghanistan will hold a four-day conference in Washington, beginning on March 13, where they "will testify about their experiences…. present photographs and videos, recorded with mobile phones and digital cameras, to back up their allegations – of brutality, torture and murder."

http://www.chris-floyd.com/content/view/1446/135

[Th1onein]

4. Yeah, that's where I saw it. Thank God for DU.

It helps us all keep informed. Thank God for the internet, for that matter.

Hey! If you could get some kind of video of this meetup, of the Iraq vets, that would be great!