How to discredit a UN report about your human rights violations in three easy steps.

1. Deny UN officials access to your Guantanamo Bay prisoners held without a fair trial.
2. Put out a sound-byte about how lazy UN officials didn’t even interview the prisoners for their report and you’re in the clear!
3. Rinse and repeat.

Human rights can be awesome!
Human rights are of the utmost importance when they advance your own interest. For example, they’re handy when you need a backup reason for preemptively invading other countries. On the other hand, human rights are not important when you’re the one violating them. Like, don’t you watch 24? Like, duh.

The UN trusts the terrorists more than us.
Scott McClellan, the White House spokesman/official bullshiter tells us “We know that Al-Qaeda detainees are trained in trying to disseminate false allegations.”

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Mark Pesce says:

SBS DATELINE Abu Ghraib Report – 15 February 2006

On Wednesday 15 February 2006, Australian public broadcaster SBS current affairs program DATELINE telecast a segment featuring 60 new photos of the torture inflicted on prisoners in the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. These photos were secured by court order – the ACLU figures prominently in the report – but these photos haven’t yet been shown in the media anywhere in the United States. Because of the broadcast on SBS, you now have access to both Web-downloadable versions and BitTorrent file-sharing network versions of the broadcast on this site. THESE PHOTOS ARE VERY DISTURBING. Please do not view this video if you are easily disturbed by graphic imagery of torture and death.

These files are all hosted on a server located in the United States to speed access for US viewers.

Note: If you do know how to use BitTorrent, please download the appropriate BitTorrent file and use that. This server in the US is well-connected but does not have infinite bandwidth. If many people share the BitTorrent version of this movie, it will greatly speed download times.

If you find you can’t play the video on your computer, download the VideoLAN program from here. This program will play the files. VideoLAN works on PCs, Macs, and LINUX boxes.

HIGH RESOLUTION VIDEO (H.264-MP4, 720×400, 90MB)
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MEDIUM RESOLUTION VIDEO (MP4, 320×200, 45MB)
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SMALL RESOLUTION VIDEO (MP4, 160×96, 13MB)
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The truth will out.

Mark Pesce (mpesce AT gmail DOT com)

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