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If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual. Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986), The Dosadi Experiment

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Why Are Convicted Felons in Battleground States Being Told They Can’t Vote?

http://www.alternet.org/story/102299/
By Christopher Moraff, The Philadelphia Tribune
Posted on October 9, 2008, Printed on October 9, 2008
At the end of the summer, in the wake of the presidential primaries, the American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania began receiving some alarming phone calls.

Inmates tell of sexual abuse and beatings in Iraq’s overcrowded juvenile prison system

http://www.guardian.co.uk/…
· Children as young as nine held in sweltering cells
· No money to improve conditions, says ministry
Jonathan Steele in Baghdad
The Guardian,
Monday September 8 2008
Hundreds of children, some as young as nine, are being held in appalling conditions in Baghdad’s prisons, sleeping in sweltering temperatures in overcrowded cells without working fans, no daily access to showers, [...]

Not So Fast

http://www.nytimes.com/…
Gov. Charlie Crist of Florida won widespread praise earlier this year when he announced that new rules that he had put in place had restored voting rights to more than 100,000 former inmates. But the numbers now turn out to have been an illusion.

Saudi Arabia prisons to replace Guantanamo bay

hat tip ~ LegitGov
http://www.daily.pk/…
Sunday, 27 July 2008 00:00 www.daily.pk
Saudi Arabia is to build five modern prisons in the kingdom to replace US Guantanamo detention facility, a new report has revealed.
Jordanian daily quoted unnamed sources as saying that US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and Saudi officials are cooperating to construct the prisons which are to replace [...]

US residents in military brigs? Govt says it’s war

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/…
By MATT APUZZO, Associated Press WriterSat May 24, 12:13 PM ET
If his cell were at Guantanamo Bay, the prisoner would be just one of hundreds of suspected terrorists detained offshore, where the U.S. says the Constitution does not apply.

U.S. Planning Big New Prison in Afghanistan

http://www.nytimes.com/…
ERIC SCHMITT
TIM GOLDEN

CIA admits they will continue rendition program, which allows torture overseas

http://rawstory.com/…
John Byrne
Published: Thursday April 24, 2008
Documents show they expected legal challenges from the start
The Central Intelligence Agency knew from the beginning that its secret detention and torturous interrogation tactics probably bordered on illegal from the start, according to new documents identified through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit.

“Block D” Enters the Pantheon of GWOT Space

http://subtopia.blogspot.com/…

Thinking a bit more about the legacy of war measured in terms of the structural remains it leaves behind – maybe even through a specific material like concrete (as if the Bremer Wall were the architectural currency of the Global War on Terror) – not only has GWOT laid the foundations for its own inevitable [...]

Detainees Allege Being Drugged, Questioned

http://www.washingtonpost.com/…
U.S. Denies Using Injections for Coercion
By Joby Warrick
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, April 22, 2008; A01
Adel al-Nusairi remembers his first six months at Guantanamo Bay as this: hours and hours of questions, but first, a needle.

They knew: Bush, Cheney authorized ‘harsh interrogations’

http://rawstory.com/…
RAW STORY
Published: Friday April 11, 2008
WASHINGTON — President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney both signed off on using harsh interrogation techniques against suspected terrorists after asking the Justice Department to endorse their legality, news agencies have learned.