From Texas to Abu Ghraib
by: tallsmile28 (33/M/New York, NY) 05/11/04 05:45 am
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http://www.guerrillanews.com/human_rights/doc4457.html

While administration officials express shock and outrage over allegations of the torture and murder of Iraqi prisoners by U.S. forces, a deeper look into Bush’s stateside prison-system record shows disturbing similarities.

Despite Taguba’s report detailing U.S. “sadistic, blatant and wanton criminal abuses” of Iraqi detainees, the President declared, “We acted, and there are no longer mass graves and torture rooms and rape rooms in Iraq.”

In George Bush’s America, denial about inmate mistreatment runs similarly rampant. As Texas governor, Bush oversaw the executions of 152 prisoners and thus became the most-killing governor in the history of the United States. Ethnic minorities, many of whom did not have access to proper legal representation, comprised a large percentage of those Bush put to death, and in one particularly egregious example, Bush executed an immigrant who hadn’t even seen a consular official from his own country (as is required by the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations, to which the U.S. was a signatory). Bush’s explanation: “Texas did not sign the Vienna Convention, so why should we be subject to it?”

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