Bush said America doesn't torture, but we have been for well over 20 years

[digidigido]

There was a documentary on POV back in the late 80's it moved and outraged me more then anything I've ever seen.
Here is the EW write up on it.


"Too much of television has for a long time been committed to the deadening notion of ''balance,'' of always presenting two sides of every issue, reducing everything to mush so that it won't offend a single viewer. In this context, a documentary anthology like P.O.V.can seem startling, even revolutionary. Here are filmmakers actually expressing their opinions, and no one's getting equal time to contradict them!

P.O.V. — the title is short for ''point of view'' — leads off a strong third season with Through the Wire, director Nina Rosenblum's extraordinary documentary about three women consigned to a high-security underground unit within the state prison in Lexington, Ky.

The women were convicted of nonviolent political crimes but were deemed ''violent and dangerous offenders.'' They were placed in an area that was constantly lighted, were watched 24 hours a day by video cameras, and were strip-searched almost daily for nearly two years.

We hear the testimony of the women themselves, who feel their sentences had less to do with their crimes than with their left-wing political affiliations.

That notion is supported by the women's attorneys, the American Civil Liberties Union, and Amnesty International, which has described the women as ''political prisoners'' being subjected to ''physical and psychological torture.''

Prison officials are given their say as well, but there's never any doubt whom filmmaker Rosenblum supports. Through the Wire is her well-crafted expose of a prison few people in America know about, and a vivid argument for shutting it down."

No America doesn't torture....Sleep deprivation, isolation... no we didn't waterboard them but. after this documentary was started and Nina and crew were going to do the second round of interviews they arrived to learn that they had been moved to a new 24 bed facility only for "potentially violent" offenders, it just happened to be located in the swamps of Florida, almost inaccessible. The crew made it down there only to be denied entry. No, the U.S. doesn't torture, one of the women developed cancer and sued to be moved to general population back in Kentucky, where there were medical facilities to help her. She won her suit, however the Bush justice department, (first Bush) appealed and had that decision overturned, and she returned to the prison in the swamps, and no medical care and isolation, effectively making a death sentence. No the U.S, doesn't torture, not at all

[NYC_SKP]

1. I wish PBS shows would become public domain.

Many PBS shows are available to view for free on the web.

I'd like to see more funding to them, with the condition that this publicly funded material be made public property.

:patriot:

Thanks for the post.