ACLU Lies Repeating
Posted on January 8, 2007
I’m sure you have all heard about the “new” allegations of abuse released through the ACLU about duct tape, baptizing, and Koran desecration. What many don’t realize is that it isn’t ‘new’ at all. It is the ACLU up to its usual beating of a dead horse.
Harold C. Hutchison breaks it all down at Strategy Page:
January 8, 2007: Several media outlets have been citing FBI documents claiming mistreatment of detainees at Guantanamo Bay. However, these documents are the basis of what is really a big non-story. Why? Because the allegations of torture based on these documents have already been investigated by the Department of Defense (DOD) in 2005 and found to have no basis in fact.
The documents in question? They are the same FBI memos that formed the basis of Senator Richard Durbin’s comparison of Guantanamo Bay to the actions of the Nazis and Khmer Rouge, and have been released in the course of a lawsuit by the American Civil Liberties Union.
Now for what the media and ACLU won’t tell you. The DOD investigations in 2004 and 2005 turned up very few incidents of mistreatment, and those incidents that did occur were often dealt with on the spot. Three of the incidents – and the response to them – are worth noting. The first was an incident uncovered, during the investigation, of the allegations from FBI agents. A naval officer threatened the mother of one detainee, a violation of Article 134 the Uniform Code of Military Justice. That matter has been referred to the Naval Investigative Service for investigation. In a second incident, an inmate who was chanting, had duct tape placed over his mouth by MPs, at the direction of an interrogator concerned about a potential riot. The person responsible was verbally reprimanded by a JAG for this one-time incident. In the third incident, an interrogator who was spat on proceeded to smear some red ink on the detainee. She was verbally reprimanded on the spot as well. In the second two cases, the investigations recommended different punishment for the infractions, but it does not detract from the fact that the DOD acted on the spot.
As was the case when the original controversy broke in 2005, the media also failed to note two important facts. One is that at least a dozen of the detainees released from Guantanamo Bay are known to have re-joined al-Qaeda on the battlefield. One of these detainees, Rasul Kudayev, planned attacks in the Kabardino-Balkariya, in the Northern Caucasus that killed 45 people.
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Jay, this is what they do. This whole corruption of America by elitist groups, special interest groups, and agenda specific groups like the ACLU is nothing more than a huge marketing scheme. Most good Americans know that these things are bad, or they feel that they may be justified. In the over all scheme of things, the ACLU will use the media to keep putting this information out there repeatedly hammering it into the minds of the American people. The desired response is Americans beginning to think that radical islam is good, American soldiers are bad, the war is bad. When this happens, the group, in this case the ACLU, wins. Once they have the minds of the American people, then they are free to inact their interpretation of laws, the constitution, manipulate the courts. The best way to fight them is at their own game. Publicity. Negative publicity on the ACLU. This web site is an excellent start, but until you can get into the big time media, the message and the education of the masses will be slow. For each of their being published in a major media paper, we need to counter in the same major media paper. They are counting on us to be too poor, too poorly connected and apathetic. All of the conservative, web site and blogs in the world are great, but, the big but is we mainly preach to the choir. People who come and visit our blogs and web pages are mainly like minded. What we need to do is get a captured audience like the ACLU or Gay Rights Movemments, or pro-Abortion activists and get into the main stream media. That way we get a much larger and more captive audience.
Both sides of aisle are deceptive but I tend to think the ACLU is more deceptive than usual. From what I have seen, it is a safe bet to believe they are always spinning a fictional account since it is rare when they are not.