The Torture Trail - Then and Now
By Dr Les Dove





The recent public display of photographs depicting the abuse and torture of
Iraq prisoners by US and British forces are indeed horrific. These kinds of
abuses bring shame on any nation that permits them. However, the pretentious
displays of disgust by the politicians of both these nations do not project
the whole truth, nor does their perceived democratic rhetoric ensure that
true human rights will prevail either in their own countries or within the
sinister forces that act on their behalf abroad.

Under the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted by the United
Nations in 1948, and since signed by many countries, abuse of prisoners or
citizens - whether at war or not, has been deemed a crime against humanity.
That interdiction has, however, not prevented the torture and abuse of many
other thousands of prisoners and dissenters, nor has it allowed most of them
any form of recompense for their sufferings. Legislation has instead simply
led security forces into adopting more insidious methods of torture and
repression. Indeed, the United States and Britain both have a very long
history of covert repression upon which they can draw from. The present
abuses are at the end of a very long trail that stretches back to 1850 when
in Port Arthur, Australia, Britain drove over 100 prisoners insane through
the use of psychological torture methods. Indeed, Britain, France and the
United States have all carried out torture during their colonial wars around
the world and, in one form or another, that torture and abuse has continued
unabated until the present day.


Recently the British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, proposed a new law that
will make any form of political dissent in Britain a criminal offence (5).
David Blunkett, the British Home Secretary, (now resigned) is also adding
another 1.000 Special Branch agents to make sure that repressive law is
adhered to. Whatever, political repression within Britain is hardly new.
Psychological control in British prisons has been a fact of life for many
years. Political dissenters inside prison have been persecuted, tortured and
otherwise 'neutralized' for well over a hundred years. Indeed, little or
nothing in the way of political freedom has changed at all. What has changed
are the methods used to cover-up repression and torture. A recent Human
Rights Watch report also highlighted much abuse by guards in inside American
prisons. It stated: "In recent years, U.S. prison inmates have been beaten
with fists and batons, stomped on, kicked, shot, stunned with electronic
devices, doused with chemical sprays, choked, and slammed face first onto
concrete floors by the officers whose job it is to guard them. Inmates have
ended up with broken jaws, smashed ribs, perforated eardrums, missing teeth,
burn scars-not to mention psychological scars and emotional pain. Some have
died."  It then continued,  "Both men and women prisoners-but especially
women-face staff rape and sexual abuse. Correctional officers will bribe,
coerce, or violently force inmates into granting sexual favors, including
oral sex or intercourse. Prison staff have laughed at and ignored the pleas
of male prisoners seeking protection from rape by other inmates. (6)"


That te United Kingdom signed the Geneva Convention has in no way prevented
it from degenerating into a police state, nor has it prevented anyone who
dares to challenge the status que from being persecuted, tortured or even
murdered by Special Branch or MI-5 agents. Having rules and regulations
against this kind of abuse is one thing, being able to use them to good
effect is quite another.


 "By 1976 the British Ministry of Defense confirmed that 1.858 army officers
and 262 senior civil servants had been trained to use psychological torture
techniques for internal security purposes. And furthermore that psyops have
acquired the ability to launch political campaigns in pursuit of military
objectives without reference to the political regime (1)." And in an
interview with The Irish Times it was stated that: "High officials in
Intelligence, MI5 and MI6, consider their organizations to be above the law.
(2)"



In other words the above organizations - and their agents, are answerable to
nobody but the Queen of England, to whom they are sworn to serve. Indeed, as
is every politician within Britain. The Queen alone has the absolute power
of veto over all parliamentary decisions which undoutably makes Tony Blair's
frequent rhetoric about freedom and democracy something of a cruel charade,
to say the very least. So much for free speech and accountability through
the so-called elected representatives of the British people. Who, if they
really desire freedom and democracy, have no other option but to become
political dissidents?



Human Rights organizations within Britain have also fallen far short of what
was expected of them by dissidents. Indeed, Amnesty International, Liberty
and Redress do nothing whatsoever to address the widespread repression by
MI-5 within Britain. These so-called human rights groups are considered to
be no more than 'front organizations' by serious human rights researchers
most of whom now steer well clear of them for obvious reasons. The media in
Britain has also degenerated into being little more than a mouthpiece for
their masters. None of the national newspapers reflect the true state of
what is really happening in the country and censorship of all kinds is
widespread.  Indeed, were it not for the Internet, the real Britain would be
all but unknown and the plight of the tortured and repressed would have
continued to be hidden as it has been for so many years in the past.



Many Americans have for a long time wondered why so many peoples around the
world hate them. The answer to that question is more than obvious to anyone
who has studied human rights in depth. For, like Britain, America also has
security services that have long considered them selves to be above the law,
even though in the United States, unlike Britain, they are to some small
extent answerable to the law.



Whatever, the American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has been involved
with death squads and torture almost from the day it was conceived. The
overthrow of the legitimate governments of Guatemala, Chile, El Salvador,
Nicaragua, Panama, Iran, Greece, Laos, Honduras, Dominican Republic,
Ecuador, Haiti, Brazil, Cambodia, Bolivia, Angola, Uruguay, Indonesia, plus
many other legitimate governments was organized by the CIA (4). All these
governments were then replaced by dictators, often financed and maintained
by the CIA, who began a reign of torture and terror that resulted in the
deaths of millions of men, women and children.



Indeed, death squads, torture, disappearances and dreadful mutilations
became the hallmark of the CIA throughout many countries all over the world.
According to the writer Keith Parkins, "The USA, using the CIA as it's lead
agency, is widely acknowledged as the world's leading sponsor of terrorism.
During the Reagan years alone, the CIA proxy army the Contras killed 8.000
Nicaraguan civilians. In Chile the bloody overthrow of the Allende regime
saw 130.000 Chileans murdered, tortured and disappeared. The CIA
intervention in Central America is one long litany of unspeakable bloody
tragedy. (3)"



Ralph McGehee, a CIA agent for 25 years, stated:



"The CIA is not now nor has it ever been a central intelligence agency. It
is the covert action arm of the President's foreign policy advisers. In that
capacity it overthrows or supports foreign governments while reporting
"intelligence" justifying those activities. It shapes its intelligence, even
in such critical areas as Soviet nuclear weapons capability, to support
presidential policy. Disinformation is a large part of its covert action
responsibility, and the American people are the primary target of its lies
(9)."



Indeed, The Association for Responsible Dissent estimates that by 1987, over
six million people had died as a result of CIA covert operations. Few of
which the American people had ever heard about. Yet torture methods and the
tactics of terror are taught right here in the USA at the 'School of the
Americas' in Fort Benning, Georgia. Truthful reporting of these terrible
events was largely ignored by the mainstream American media. As a result
most Americans were, and still are, totally ignorant of them. These
atrocities were, however, carried out in the name of all Americans. Whether
by their own bloody hands or the hands of their paid free-lancers the CIA
has done more to damage the good image of America than any other security
service. Surely the American people are entitled to have security services
that act in the best interests of all Americans rather than the elite few
who head huge multinational companies.

Had the American public been truly informed as to what their various
governments had been doing over the years much repression and horror
throughout the world may have been avoided? But as John Swinton, the former
Chief of Staff of the New York Times, stated:

"There is no such thing, at this date of the world's history, in America as
an independent press. You know it and I know it. There is not one of you who
dare to write your honest opinions, and if you did, you know beforehand that
it would never appear in print. I am paid weekly for keeping my honest
opinions out of the paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid
similar salaries for similar things, and any of you who would be so foolish
as to write honest opinions would be out on the streets looking for another
job. If I allowed my honest opinions to appear in one issue of my paper,
before twenty-four hours my occupation would be gone. The business of the
journalists is to destroy the truth; to lie outright; to pervert; to vilify;
to fawn at the feet of mammon, and to sell his country and his race for his
daily bread. You know it and I know it and what folly is this toasting an
independent press? We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the
scenes. We are jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance. Our
talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men.
We are intellectual prostitutes. (8)"

Since his retirement Walter Cronkite, the famous TV newscaster and
journalist, has also voiced similar criticism of the American Media. He has
been quoted as saying: "My lips have been kind of buttoned for almost twenty
years."

Another comment reads:

"Media criticism does exist in America. But by and large, it is not
citizen-based criticism designed to make media a better source of
information in a democracy. Instead, it is a cynical manipulation of the
discourse designed to silence even the mildest dissent from the
conservative, militantly pro-corporate dogma that has come to pass for news
in an era when "reporters" brag about the size of their American-flag lapel
pins."

Robert McChesney and John Nichols



The CIA, against American and international law, is also thought to be
directly responsible for the repression and torture of American citizens
inside the USA today. Indeed, many American dissenters are now being
targeted simply for refusing to believe the garbage much of the US media
passes off as news.  Using stooges and free-lancers the CIA has -like MI-5
in the UK, taken to using the military microwave machine to 'neutralize' its
targets. The CIA then uses that old standby 'plausible deniability' to shrug
off torture allegations made against it. Yet on one Internet site alone
there are hundreds of victims whose allegations of repression and torture
are backed up by many doctors and other professionals who have no doubt
whatsoever who is behind these present day atrocities. Indeed, some former
members of the American intelligence community have confirmed our darkest
fears.



The prime reason for George Bush's utter refusal to become a member of the
International Criminal Court is easy to understand. Should America become a
member he knows full well that at some future date many present and past
members of the CIA, not to mention the National Security Agency, would be
held fully accountable for the horrors they have perpetrated throughout the
world. And that is something only a very courageous President would permit.
To do so would expose to the entire world the true nature of American
foreign policy during the last fifty years or so at the very least, and
underscore the involvement of the American Presidents who permitted it. It
would also expose the manipulation of public opinion by the American media
and the gullibility of Americans for so readily believing the many lies and
distortions told to them by Congress and their so-called free press. What
governments say they are doing - and what they really are doing, are quite
often two quite different things.



Now seems a good time to look back on a speech given many years ago by a
true American patriot.

The following is an excerpt of a speech, delivered in 1933, by Major General
Smedley Butler, former Commandant of the United States Marine Corps:

"War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something
that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small inside
group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very
few at the expense of the masses.

I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and in nothing else. If a
nation comes over here to fight, then we'll fight. The trouble with America
is that when the dollar only earns six percent over here, then it gets
restless and goes overseas to get 100 percent. Then the flag follows the
dollar and the soldiers follow the flag.

I wouldn't go to war again as I have done to defend some lousy investment of
the bankers. There are only two things that we should fight for. One is the
defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights. War for any other
reason is simply a racket.

There isn't a trick in the racketeering bag that the military gang is blind
to. It has its "finger men" to point out enemies, its "muscle men" to
destroy enemies, its "brain men" to plan war preparations, and a "Big
Boss"-Super nationalistic Capitalism.

It may seem odd for me, a military man to adopt such a comparison.
Truthfulness compels me to. I spent thirty-three years and four months in
active military service as a member of our country's most agile military
force-the Marine Corps. I served in all commissioned ranks from a Second
Lieutenant to Major General. And during that period, I spent most of my time
being a high-class muscleman for Big Business, for Wall Street and for the
Bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism.

I suspected I was just a part of a racket at the time. Now I am sure of it.
Like all members of the military profession, I never had an original thought
until I left the service. My mental facilities remained in suspended
animation while I obeyed the orders of higher-ups. This is typical with
everyone in the military service,

I helped make Mexico-especially Tampico-safe for American oil interests in
1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank
boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central
American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. The record of
racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international
banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the
Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped
see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested.

During those years, I had, as the boys in the back room would say, a swell
racket. I was rewarded with honors, medals, and promotions. Looking back on
it, I feel that I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could
do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three
continents. (7)"



Things haven't changed so much as we might have expected since then, have
they? However, as Harry C Bauer said, "What is right with America is a
willingness to discuss what's wrong with America."



The American media has finally shown courage in widely exposing the CIA
horrors in Iraq. That truth has been much appreciated by good Americans
everywhere. Let the media now be more courageous still and start to expose
what is happening right here inside America today, and Britain. America may
then become a country the entire world can look up to, and respect.



lesdove@giga-red.net





(1)   Bloch. J. Fitzgerald. P.  British Intelligence and Covert Action."
Junction Books.      London. UK 1983. P.29



(2)   Bloch. J. Fitzgerald. P.  'British Intelligence and Covert
Action.' Junction Books. London. 1983. UK. P.54



(3) Parkins. K. 'Intelligence Services Unaccountable and Out of Control.'
Internet source.



(4) Killing Hope: 'U.S. Military and CIA Interventions since   World War 
II.'
Monroe, Maine. Common Courage Press, 1995.  USA.



(5)               The Sunday Herald. UK.







(6)               Human Rights Watch. Prisoner Abuse: How Different are U.S.
Prisons? By Jamie Fellner, Esq







(7)               From GIDRA, a California Asian paper. 4221 Germantown
Avenue/Philadelphia, Pennsylvania







(8)               Swinton. J. 1953. In a toast before the New York Press
Club.







(9)               McGehee. R.  Deadly Deceits. Book, published in 1983.
McGehee account of the CIA in his book Deadly Deceits









The six million people the CIA has helped to kill are people of the Mitumba
Mountains of the Congo, the jungles of Southeast Asia, and the hills of
northern Nicaragua. They are people without ICBMs or armies or navies,
incapable of doing physical damage to the United States the 22,000 killed in
Nicaragua, for example, are not Russians; they are not Cuban soldiers or
advisors; they are not even mostly Sandinistas. A majority are rag-poor
peasants, including large numbers of women and children. John Stockwell,
former CIA official and author

"The crimes of the U.S. throughout the world have been systematic, constant,
clinical, remorseless, and fully documented but nobody talks about them.
"Harold Pinter

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THE ENEMIES WITHIN

http://www.mason-rule.bizhosting.com  Please note that this website has been
hacked. The password to allow its owner to repace missing evidence that was
previously posted on it was changed clearly to prevent its owner from
replacing that evidence.

Under Article 6(1) of the European Human Rights Convention, All UK citizens
must have access to independent to impartial tribunals or authorities for
the resolution of their criminal or civil rights. The United Kingdom has no
such tribunals or authorities.  Prime Minister Tony Blair continues to
ignore Maurice Kellett's five million pounds damages claim made against him
for his failure to have set in motion the necessary mechanism to set up such
independent and impartial tribunals or authorities.Blair also continues to
be in gross violation of Article 6(1) of the European Human Rights
Convention.The Judicial Oath of fairness to all manner of men, sworn by all
UK judges and magistrates to Queen Elizabeth II, is a fraud of massive
proportions. That Oath is shown and proved time and time again not to have
any meaning at all. The UK is now operating what amounts to a modern day
illegal Star Chamber. Queen Elizabeth II is in these circumstances shown to
be an integral part of serious crime being used against all UK citizens. All
UK authorities operate under the authority  of Queen Elizabeth II. Again, in
these same circumstances as given above, they exist only by the authority of
a criminal.

Queen Elizabeth II is the Patron Head of UK Freemasonry which is without a
shadow of doubt a Secret Society. She is clearly a part of the "dark forces"
as mentioned in recent years by her. Under Article 6(1) of the European
Human Rights Convention, no authorities in the UK are independent of
impartial in any matters where Freemasonry has a concern because they all
operate under the authority of the Patron Head of UK Freemasonry Queen
Elizabeth II. The arising question is do any UK establishment authories have
any credibility whatsoever given that they all only operate under the
authority of the Secret Society Patron Head of UK Freemasonry, Queen
Elizabeth II?

Prime Minister Tony Blair and his then partner in crime, Home Secretary
David Blunkett ignored my letters to them that had also detailed the
Northumbria Police Special Squad murder attempts made on me at my home at
16A The Lyons, Hetton-le-Hole, Tyne-Wear, in early February 2003. Around
that same time  the Northumbria Police Special Squad seized my home
following serious crime used against me by judges sitting at the Durham,
Newcastle and later the Middlesboro County Courts and police from various
police forces that had of course also included Freemason led Northumbria
Police. Perhaps it is now a  hidden requirement that the UK authorities who
all operate under Queen Elizabeth II, Patron Head of all UK Freemasonry,
must also be members of the Freemasons and this is a probable reason for the
whole of the UK Establishment being nothing short of being riddled with
membership of the Freemasons. The Duke of Edinburgh, the Prince of Wales are
also Freemasons. Queen Elizabeth's cousin, the Duke of Kent is the Grand
Master of all UK Freemasonry. In fact the so called royals have been up to
their necks in Freemasonry for generations. Islam is said to be the greatest
threat to Freemasonry. Freemasonry dates back to the Knights Templars of the
Holy (Unholy)Wars era of history. The Knights Templars later changed their
name to Freemasons. Little wonder now why Queen Elizabeth II would not
apologise to the people of Iraq following Blair and Bush's illegal war
carried out against them which has left well over a hundred thousand
innocent lives lost in Iraq. Freemasonry is protecting the UK Monarchy and
the UK Monarchy is protecting UK Freemasonry.

Prime Minister Tony Blair is also a member of the Freemasons. The man who it
is said gave that information has been missing from around late July 2004.

The House of Commons Home Affairs Select Committee Inquiry into Freemasonry
within the Police and Judiciary was a whitewash job chaired by Lord Nolan.

Lord Cullen has also been involved in UK Establishment whitewash jobs that
included the Dunblane Children's Massacre. Thomas Hamilton who murdered
those children at Dunblane was not only a paedophile but also a member of
the Freemasons. Cullen, also believed to be a Freemason, ruled that there
would be a hundred year clamp down on any disclosures relative to his
alleged inquiry into that matter. It may be of interest that it was the
Crown (Patron Head of UK Freemasonry) who chose the witnesses to Dunblane
Massacre alleged Inquiry!!! By virtue of this fact alone that alleged
Inquiry by Cullen never was impartial or independent. One of the mothers of
a child who had been murdered by Freemason Thomas Hamilton is reported to be
referring the matter of the Cullen Dunblane Child Massacre Inquiry to the
European Court.



Maurice Kellett

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