1. Torture remains a policy of the British Government, British Army and British society as was witnessed today in the coverup and failure to convict those responsible for the death of an Iraqi civilian who was tortured to death by the British Army. The exact same pattern of torture continues against me only indefinitely under threat of death with the use of surveillance technology as a weapon for eight years and seven months since August 1998. This is the standard and policy of this society, its government and its people.
BBC News Tuesday, 13 March 2007, 17:58 GMT
Soldiers cleared over Iraq abuse
 Baha Mousa died in custody after being arrested in Basra |
A court martial has cleared two UK soldiers of failing to ensure their men did not abuse Iraqi civilians in Basra.
Maj Michael Peebles and Warrant Officer Mark Davies had denied charges of negligently performing their duties.
In all, six soldiers were acquitted at the hearing in Bulford, Wiltshire. A seventh soldier had previously admitted one charge of inhumane treatment.
The allegations arose after the death of an Iraqi prisoner, Baha Mousa, in British custody during September 2003.
Cpl Donald Payne, who admitted treating Iraqis inhumanely, is the only soldier to have been convicted at the end of the six-month hearing. He is awaiting sentencing.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6446649.stm
2. Tonight at 2230 a special Panorama broadcast a 30 minute documentary about this terrible tragedy not just carried out by the British Army but covered up by the British Army. While Panorama and the BBC may try to take the high moral ground in this situation, they are as much a part of the brutuality and sadistic behaviour of this society by failing to report and address the torture which I have been bringing to their attention for years. This is why such behaviour continues and is a standard in the United Kingdom.
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Subject: A Good Kicking: British Army Tortures to Death Iraqi Suspect While Brutalising Others
Date: Tuesday 13 March 2007 23:30
From: Gary D Chance
To: panorama@bbc.co.uk
FAO of Jeremy Vine:
Have you the guts to address the real problem of torture in this society as I describe it below?
The only lesson the British Army will learn from this is "Don't get caught" you dummies.
Torture is endemic not only in the British Army but in the British society. The whole process as outlined by your outstanding programme meant only one thing to me: cover up.
Those in charge are responsible for whatever happened and should have been prosecuted.
I've been subjected to eight years and seven months of 24/7 surveillance technology driven torture. What has been dealt out against these Iraqis in 36 hours of extreme physical brutality has been carried out against me all these years with personal injuries under the threat of death from the lethal use of the surveillance technology.
I've sent you (Panorama) Emails about this for some time now. Why is it that you do not address torture-in-progress to help stop it when you can instead of waiting until the trial has reached its non-conclusion at a cost of £20 million? This has been carried out near the BBC for all these years.
If you do not address this problem of extreme sadism in British society in a meaningful way to catch and stop it in action, it will continue with these incredible disgraces and shame brought upon the decent in this society by the brutality of those who continue to get away with it.
Hooding, sleep deprivation and stressing were forbidden under the Heath government 35 years ago according to BBC News24 reports.
Conditioning in the preparation for interviewing used these techniques here in Iraq and by the US military at Abu Ghraib as we've seen emerging in a few examples, but this technique is part and parcel of the ethos of this British society.
It is a policy of brutality which goes on unchecked because those doing it believe that they can cover it up and get away with it especially when using surveillance technology.
I've been experiencing this for all these 8.5+ years 24/7.
1) Hooding by the use of surveillance technology;
2) Chronic sleep deprivation carried out each and every night and during the day for all these years by a large group of people ganging up on one person 24/7; and
3) Stressing carried out by mental and emotional abuse continuously administered by the surveillance technology verbally with what the US Army calls S2K (Sound-to-Skull).
There have been constant and continuous demands for an interview for years by Lt Harry Bird former US Marine. All of his activity with the help of those with him, British and US people, has been directed at this objective.
It is exactly the same kind of torture but carried out indefinitely under threat of death using surveillance technology as a weapon. Lt Harry Bird has said "You will die first" before he stops this activity.
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3. Read this BBC News article in full to see that "conditioning" was acceptable with equivocation on the this word without any definition as to what was actually meant. In this case such "conditioning" resulted in the death of an innocent Iraqi civilian presumed guilty of having killed a favourite captain in this British Army unit. Although arms were found at the hotel, they belonged to a man who had left. These British Army soldiers jumped to a conclusion of a presumption of guilt and beat those they found in the hotel in the extreme resulting in the death of one of them. That was not handling the situation properly to find out who did what and so forth. Torture does not work. Justice has failed here and has been seen to have failed.
BBC News Tuesday, 13 March 2007, 18:58 GMT
Why soldiers had 'no case to answer'
The acquittal of the final two soldiers accused of abusing Iraqi civilians brings to an end a six-month long court martial.
Earlier, judge advocate Mr Justice McKinnon had thrown out charges against the other five accused - although one of them has admitted an offence - after they filed "no case to answer" motions. The reasons for his decision can now be made public.