[Peace-discuss] Naomi Wolf - "Obama is burning what is left of the shreds of the Constitution..."

[E. Wayne Johnson]

/Excerpts from Naomi Wolf's latest article in the Huffington Post --/
*
Busted, Pentagon: Why The Photos Probably Do Show Detainees Sodomized 
and Raped*
Naomi Wolf  (click here for the full text 
<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/naomi-wolf/busted-pentagon-why-the-p_b_209046.html>)


The Telegraph of London broke the news - because the US press is in a 
drugged stupor -- that the photos Obama is refusing to release of 
detainee abuse depict, among other sexual tortures, an American soldier 
raping a female detainee and a male translator raping a male prisoner. 
The paper claims the photos also show anal rape of prisoners with 
foreign objects such as wires and lightsticks. Major General Antonio 
Taguba calls the images `horrific' and `indecent' (but absurdly agrees 
that Obama should not release them - proving once again that the 
definition of hypocrisy is the assertion that the truth is in poor taste)...

...Whom are we protecting by not releasing the photos? The victims? 
Hardly. It's, as feminists have been saying for decades, not their 
shame. The perpetrators? Their crimes are archived; if not this 
administration, another may well obey the law release the images, which 
are evidentiary. (Again: that rape and sodomy were directed form the 
top; prosecute those at the top.)

These photos go to exactly why Obama is burning what is left of the 
shreds of the Constitution by calling for preemptive detention for about 
100 detainees. It ain't because they are `too dangerous,' his pathetic 
justification. It is because their bodies are crime scenes. It is 
because the torture, including possibly the sexual assault, they 
experienced is likely to be so horrific that if they were ever to have 
their day in court it is others whom Obama needs who would be incriminated.

In the nineteenth century, when a woman had been raped, or had 
experienced sexual abuse in the family, the paterfamilias would say she 
was crazy, get her declared `too dangerous' to be free, and lock her up 
forever so her story would be interred with her. That is what Obama is 
trying to do with preemptive detention for these detainees.

Well, America? Do you want to live with this? Remember: history shows 
categorically that once the state can lock `them' up without a fair 
trial, torture, rape them or sodomize them - well; sooner or later it 
will be able to do the same to your children or mine; or to you and me.
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