LETTER TO THE EDITOR | Haunted by Senate’s torture report

Published 10:00 am Wednesday, December 31, 2014

Editor,

I have been haunted for days by the editorial cartoon of Dec. 13 in The Record showing Lady Liberty torturing a person. This cartoon, published after the release of the “Torture Report,” exposes officially sanctioned American crimes. A report that had been heavily redacted by the Central Intelligence Agency (or CIA), a co-conspirator in said crimes. The CIA had access to cut and edit this report. The fact that what was “allowed” by this criminal organization was deemed by them to be the least harmful bits, speaks volumes to the arrogance of this agency.

Here are some inconvenient facts.

In May of 2002 the Bush administration withdrew from the International Criminal Court because that administration, in my opinion, had a pre-meditated plan to perpetrate war crimes and crimes against humanity. Their plans to invade Iraq in 2003, no matter what the world or the American people said, were set in motion. I believe that the motive was oil money and war profits. These criminals and their cronies have become so wealthy that they can buy politicians by the busload. They hope to get away with one of the biggest crimes in the history of mankind.

America has been stained by these people and then had their treasury sacked by these same people under cover of the “fog of war,” not to mention the loss of approximately a million innocent Iraqi lives and driving over 4 million people into refugee status along with about 4,500 American soldiers dead.

America has also lost our own soul due to these lies.

The big question facing Americans today is, “Are we, as a people, going to let these crimes go unpunished?” The rest of the world is watching to see if “Truth, Justice and the American Way” is just another desperate slogan to cover official criminal activities perpetrated by a dying military empire.

I guess we’ll see. PEACE.

DAN FREEMAN

Clinton