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In the Same Week, the U.S. and U.K. Hide Their War Crimes...
• https://firstlook.org, By Glenn GreenwaldHis reign of terror began in 1966 when Bahrain was a British "protectorate" and continued when the post-"independence" Bahraini King retained him in the same position. In 1996, The Independent described him as "the most feared of all secret policemen" in Bahrain, and cited "consistent and compelling evidence that severe beatings and even sexual assaults have been carried out against prisoners under Henderson's responsibility for well over a decade."
A 2002 Guardian article reported that "during this time his men allegedly detained and tortured thousands of anti-government activists"; his official acts "included the ransacking of villages, sadistic sexual abuse and using power drills to maim prisoners"; and "on many occasions they are said to have detained children without informing their parents, only to return them months later in body bags."




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Is anyone out there as tired as I am of hearing these types of appalling atrocities come to light but yet again very little is done to prevent it from continuing? These people we call governments are nothing more than psychopathic tyrrants and need to be dealt with accordingly! They decieve so many by promoting the illusion of patriotism and then inflame things further by injecting the public with the fear of taking that patriotism away. George Bernard Shaw gave a great quote which nicely describes what I think of the belief in patriotism, "patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it!" this is a very dangerous belief because it creates the basis for governments and other ruling classes to manipulate misplaced fear or hatred from one group of people to another group of people. Thus enabling them by aiding and or supporting these exaggerations or outright fallacys, to then carry out such unbelievable atrocities! It needs to stop! Exposing it is the first step. What is the next one? I will end with this quote by Benjamin Disraeli, "thought is useful when it motivates for action, and a hindrance when it substitutes for action!"