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THE US has reportedly been accused of operating secret "floating prisons" to hold and interrogate war on terror suspects.
Human rights lawyers claim to have compiled a detailed list of US ships that have been used as offshore prisons for terror detainees, UK newspaper The Guardian reports.
The information has been reportedly gleaned from a number of sources, including from official statements from US military, official European reports and the testimonies of prisoners.
Human rights organisation Reprieve, which also operates in Australia, say they will publish the claims later this year.
"They (US authorities) choose ships to try to keep their misconduct as far as possible from the prying eyes of the media and lawyers. We will eventually reunite these ghost prisoners with their legal rights, ' Clive Stafford Smith, Reprieve's legal director, said to The Guardian.
"By its own admission, the US Government is currently detaining at least 26,000 people without trial in secret prisons, and information suggests up to 80,000 have been 'through the system' since 2001.
Oceania builds huge seabound installations on an scale unseen even today.
"A Floating Fortress, for example, has locked up in it the labour that would build several hundred cargo-ships. Ultimately it is scrapped as obsolete, never having brought any material benefit to anybody, and with further enormous labours another Floating Fortress is built."
In the early part of the twentieth century, it seemed that naval warfare would produce ever-more powerful and larger vessels. While World War II demonstrated the supremacy of aircraft carriers for the first time, it still would have appeared to many as if there was no real limit to the effective size of a ship of war.
To a self-aware superstate, however, the idea of a floating fortress would be attractive indeed. Imagine a huge military enterprise operating in a far-flung location, designed to serve no purpose other than to absorb a nation's productive energies in maintaining a futile, ill-defined and endless war.
Originally posted by the titor experience
26,000 people without trial in secret prisons.
America has now become, in my eyes, the modern day equivalent of Nazi Germany.
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Originally posted by groingrinder
You see what happened in Nazi Germany when good men did nothing. Now when good men stand up and speak out they are called "Conspiracy Theorists, Unamerican, Unpatriotic, Communist, Liberal, or Appeaser". Yes, I am an American and it is beginning to look like Nazi Germany to me as well. One super nationalistic, greedy, warmongering group of wealthy individuals trying to subjugate the rest of the entire world under their rule. Each year of war makes them richer, while killing off the rest of us. You do know that only poor people go to war don't you? You won't see Bush's kids, or Chertoff's kids, or Cheney's kids fighting in Iraq.
Originally posted by Deus_Brandon
Well you won't see PRINCE CHARLES KIDS fighting in the war either .. .