--- In biofuel@yahoogroups.com, "kirk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: That is how it starts. Then someone decides to get even. Then blood flows.
:( Kirk -----Original Message----- From: Appal Energy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 14, 2003 6:18 PM To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com Subject: Torture Tactics - Yes, in America was Re: [biofuel] Re: The oil in Iraq > Fur Free Friday at 7th and Nicollett in Minneapolis Minnesota, the > day after thanksgiving 1999. Protesters who were chained together > were placed in a choke hold by law enforcement. Pepper spray was > administered to a swab and applied to each protester. There was no > reason for this other than torture. I was there, I saw this happen. > Too bad I did not have a camera. Same thing, different day.... You should see the movie. (Yes. It is on tape.) http://www.radioproject.org/transcripts/9926.html In its report Amnesty International said that "in this instance the spray was clearly abusive as it was not used to protect officers or others but was applied in a calculated and deliberate way to inflict pain as a way of gaining compliance in cases of demonstrators who posed no threat." The later half of the program moves off of the intentional abuse aspect and towards effectiveness issues. --- End forwarded message ---
