Fwd: [NATURAL_DEFENCE] SECRET U.S.A. TORTURE NETWORK
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: ECOTERRA Intl. <office@ecoterra-international.org> Date: Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 12:03 AM Subject: [NATURAL_DEFENCE] SECRET U.S.A. TORTURE NETWORK To: MAILHUB <mailhub@ecoterra.net> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE NEW REPORT TO U.N. SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR BLASTS SECRET U.S.A. TORTURE NETWORK LAKE ARROWHEAD, CA. 12 December 2016: A ground-breaking report just released to the U.N. Special Rapporteur on Torture by the activist organization ITHACA reveals the existence of a massive, secret imprisonment and torture system that targets tens of thousands of Americans each year. Some have estimated it yields annual profits upwards of $40-billion annually to the perpetrators. (1) The report contains affidavits of some 90 individuals documenting violations of the 1984 United Nations Convention Against Torture, including isolation, contraindicated forced drugging, starvation, medical neglect, intimidation, coercion, unnecessary/inappropriate medical procedures, and physical and mental abuse. The victims are not charged or convicted of any crime and are often denied legal representation. “Our report, Adult Guardianships as a Form of Torture in the United States, uncovers something far worse--owing to its scope and extent-- than the secret network of CIA prisons revealed last year by the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee,” comments ITHACA spokeswoman Janet Phelan. “These victims are not terror suspects. They are ordinary US citizens who fell into a system which is geared towards fleecing their assets, with no regard for their well being.” Unlike the overseas “black sites” of the USA, the ITHACA report points out, the domestic torture system barely reaches the public consciousness because it is protected by a fearsome network of judges, attorneys and other court officers, court-appointed guardians, law enforcement, APS social workers, psychologists and medical personnel. Some of the so-called care facilities are little more than prisons that isolate vulnerable seniors from their loved ones—often from all outside contact. Then the victims are “treated” while their finances are drained in a variety of ways, sometimes through documents they are coerced through a variety of “ways” to sign. Once their finances are sufficiently depleted, death often follows swiftly. And the evidence is frequently quickly destroyed by cremation before loved ones have a chance to see the body or get an autopsy. Those fighting to defend their loved ones - and sometimes lawyers or others who make the mistake of trying to help - also face retaliation, detailed in the ITHACA report. This can include disbarment for attorneys and loss of licenses for medical and other professionals. In some cases, families are ruined by legal costs trying to save a loved one trapped in the system. One account details an impoverished woman with a disabled husband threatened with $9000 in legal fees for objecting to a court-appointed guardian who was issued letters of guardianship, in violation of state law, listing false credentials. This threat was used to force her to drop the objection. Others grow sick from the hopeless struggle and die of heart attacks or other illness—sometimes under suspicious circumstances. Still others face legal harassment and are forced to leave the country. As detailed in the report, some have faced jail or prison. The ITHACA report points out a major loophole for potential torturers. There is little hope from the higher courts, despite the fact that many victims and their loved ones should be protected by the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA), states the report: “The US Supreme Court has taken a position concerning guardianship and probate matters. Known as “the probate exception,” this essentially removes the Supreme Court from any necessity on issuing decisions in matters arising in state probate courts. The difficulty in finding remedies to exhaust is enhanced by the tendencies of probate courts to issue gag orders and restraining orders against litigants, which may bar them from exercising their legal rights to make further reports or otherwise engage justice agencies.” That’s right. The ITHACA report reveals to the U.N. Special Rapporteur that the USAmerican legal system is complicit in this alleged wholesale looting and torture of seniors. The local courts have the power—and use the power—to seal records containing damning evidence, have photographs proving potential torture destroyed, issue gag orders to relatives and witnesses, and issue various restraining orders that prevent the exposure of cross violations of the U.N. Convention on Torture by the USA. [END] NOTE TO REPORTERS: The complete report and attachments are available from ITHACA, P.O. Box 50, PMB 207, Lake Arrowhead, CA 92352, Tel.: (541) 708-3534. (1) Estimate on pg. 53 of “Guardianship: How Judges and Lawyers Steal Your Money,” by M. Larsen, Copyright 2015, M. Larsen. ISBN No.: 0692586210. MEDIA CONTACT: Janet Phelan, Co-chair ITHACA e-mail: janet_c_phelan[AT]yahoo.com> phone: +1 (541) 708-3534 RELATED: To publish research findings like the above soon might be banned in the USA see: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-12-10/senate-quietly-passes-countering-di... ------------------ All ECOTERRA Media and Disseminations are re-distributable under Creative Commons Non-Commercial Share-Alike Licence - Please send your feedback and comments to office[AT]ecoterra.net ============== Pro-active work to protect nature and human rights requires YOU to work with us Even if you have no possibility to be at the front-lines with us, please know we need independent funding. PLEASE consider to support ECOTERRA's work through our trust fund. Send your pledges to ecotrust[AT]ecoterra.net EVERY BIT COUNTS. ------------------- ECOTERRA Intl. 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Interesting: http://lib.ohchr.org/HRBodies/UPR/Documents/session9/US/ITHACA_IthacaRights.... http://www.guardianshipgonebad.com/ http://stopguardianabuse.org/victimsandtheirstories.htm Revenge on the Boomers? On 12/13/2016 02:05 AM, grarpamp wrote:
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: ECOTERRA Intl. <office@ecoterra-international.org> Date: Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 12:03 AM Subject: [NATURAL_DEFENCE] SECRET U.S.A. TORTURE NETWORK To: MAILHUB <mailhub@ecoterra.net>
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
NEW REPORT TO U.N. SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR BLASTS SECRET U.S.A. TORTURE NETWORK
LAKE ARROWHEAD, CA. 12 December 2016: A ground-breaking report just released to the U.N. Special Rapporteur on Torture by the activist organization ITHACA reveals the existence of a massive, secret imprisonment and torture system that targets tens of thousands of Americans each year. Some have estimated it yields annual profits upwards of $40-billion annually to the perpetrators. (1)
The report contains affidavits of some 90 individuals documenting violations of the 1984 United Nations Convention Against Torture, including isolation, contraindicated forced drugging, starvation, medical neglect, intimidation, coercion, unnecessary/inappropriate medical procedures, and physical and mental abuse. The victims are not charged or convicted of any crime and are often denied legal representation.
“Our report, Adult Guardianships as a Form of Torture in the United States, uncovers something far worse--owing to its scope and extent-- than the secret network of CIA prisons revealed last year by the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee,” comments ITHACA spokeswoman Janet Phelan.
“These victims are not terror suspects. They are ordinary US citizens who fell into a system which is geared towards fleecing their assets, with no regard for their well being.”
Unlike the overseas “black sites” of the USA, the ITHACA report points out, the domestic torture system barely reaches the public consciousness because it is protected by a fearsome network of judges, attorneys and other court officers, court-appointed guardians, law enforcement, APS social workers, psychologists and medical personnel. Some of the so-called care facilities are little more than prisons that isolate vulnerable seniors from their loved ones—often from all outside contact.
Then the victims are “treated” while their finances are drained in a variety of ways, sometimes through documents they are coerced through a variety of “ways” to sign. Once their finances are sufficiently depleted, death often follows swiftly. And the evidence is frequently quickly destroyed by cremation before loved ones have a chance to see the body or get an autopsy.
Those fighting to defend their loved ones - and sometimes lawyers or others who make the mistake of trying to help - also face retaliation, detailed in the ITHACA report. This can include disbarment for attorneys and loss of licenses for medical and other professionals. In some cases, families are ruined by legal costs trying to save a loved one trapped in the system.
One account details an impoverished woman with a disabled husband threatened with $9000 in legal fees for objecting to a court-appointed guardian who was issued letters of guardianship, in violation of state law, listing false credentials. This threat was used to force her to drop the objection. Others grow sick from the hopeless struggle and die of heart attacks or other illness—sometimes under suspicious circumstances. Still others face legal harassment and are forced to leave the country. As detailed in the report, some have faced jail or prison.
The ITHACA report points out a major loophole for potential torturers. There is little hope from the higher courts, despite the fact that many victims and their loved ones should be protected by the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA), states the report:
“The US Supreme Court has taken a position concerning guardianship and probate matters. Known as “the probate exception,” this essentially removes the Supreme Court from any necessity on issuing decisions in matters arising in state probate courts. The difficulty in finding remedies to exhaust is enhanced by the tendencies of probate courts to issue gag orders and restraining orders against litigants, which may bar them from exercising their legal rights to make further reports or otherwise engage justice agencies.”
That’s right. The ITHACA report reveals to the U.N. Special Rapporteur that the USAmerican legal system is complicit in this alleged wholesale looting and torture of seniors. The local courts have the power—and use the power—to seal records containing damning evidence, have photographs proving potential torture destroyed, issue gag orders to relatives and witnesses, and issue various restraining orders that prevent the exposure of cross violations of the U.N. Convention on Torture by the USA.
[END]
NOTE TO REPORTERS: The complete report and attachments are available from ITHACA, P.O. Box 50, PMB 207, Lake Arrowhead, CA 92352, Tel.: (541) 708-3534.
(1) Estimate on pg. 53 of “Guardianship: How Judges and Lawyers Steal Your Money,” by M. Larsen, Copyright 2015, M. Larsen. ISBN No.: 0692586210.
MEDIA CONTACT: Janet Phelan, Co-chair ITHACA e-mail: janet_c_phelan[AT]yahoo.com> phone: +1 (541) 708-3534
RELATED: To publish research findings like the above soon might be banned in the USA see: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-12-10/senate-quietly-passes-countering-di...
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---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: ECOTERRA Intl. <office@ecoterra-international.org> Date: Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 12:03 AM Subject: [NATURAL_DEFENCE] SECRET U.S.A. TORTURE NETWORK To: MAILHUB <mailhub@ecoterra.net>
This is regrettable:
RELATED: To publish research findings like the above soon might be banned in the USA see: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-12-10/senate-quietly-passes-counter ing-disinformation-and-propaganda-act
I
recently read the full text of this Act, which is very brief. It creates a new de facto ministry of propaganda in the State Department, tasked to wage political warfare against foreign audiences through propaganda placements and campaigns. The act creates no authorities for domestic censorship. I would call assertions to the contrary "disinformation" as the text of the bill is brief and unambiguous - although its mandates certainly will result in distribution of disinformation to U.S. audiences through private sector propaganda organs, censorship is no part of the mission described. Claims that S.2692, the "Countering Information Warfare Act of 2016" creates authorities for domestic censorship are very damaging to the credibility of anyone making such claims. Also regrettable: ITHACA does not seem to have a web presence of any kind, which leaves reporting on their activities in the hands of "fringe" press outlets who will, as noted above, poison the narrative by presenting it in a context of prejudicial commentary and disinformation. I have seen extensive documentation and anecdotal evidence that strongly validates the gross systemic abuses the quoted ITHACA press release describes. I consider /all/ Court ordered custodial relationships components of the Prison Industrial Complex. U.S. Courts turn a blind eye to endemic criminal abuse of the human "cash cow commodities" created by Court order, to protect their own reputations. This behavior makes the Court an accessory to these acts, and establishes a feedback loop of perverse incentives that makes legal remedies effectively impossible. Instances of kickbacks and corruption only exacerbate this already intolerable systemic disorde r. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJYUDJkAAoJEECU6c5Xzmuq3LwIAJwlr8YwpNDmKNjwnQD+lCHp VF3IMoviu8AHsYBS7yuVPcMchJUcW/ZPbpn66kFoTAGO8R41snOxwe/jpzR2pkJg fmO70TCPQBWD57wtD9ePP6G73P+zFNmQExyrQmkKIJ+qVYwaea4jAZNHDfSWaJjH Ub8MW72m3KRlbO56sUP/f6NhUFH57QE5V8bxzweNdw6NB4n/8sV6R0EcmngB8fa8 9QS+2xy46deCaYZzuQmVl6guw8LiQrDMLOwzW3dMiW4DqPaHqGvr8tBgwXse/an6 1hEXYYilnccxTyFiZ12NHhJs7QTfrhre/x7BCOmj333jTgDCvj68ZbVeFeij7Yg= =3Rjc -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
On 12/13/2016 09:39 AM, Steve Kinney wrote:
On 12/13/2016 04:05 AM, grarpamp wrote:
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: ECOTERRA Intl. <office@ecoterra-international.org> Date: Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 12:03 AM Subject: [NATURAL_DEFENCE] SECRET U.S.A. TORTURE NETWORK To: MAILHUB <mailhub@ecoterra.net>
This is regrettable:
RELATED: To publish research findings like the above soon might be banned in the USA see: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-12-10/senate-quietly-passes-counter ing-disinformation-and-propaganda-act
I
recently read the full text of this Act, which is very brief. It creates a new de facto ministry of propaganda in the State Department, tasked to wage political warfare against foreign audiences through propaganda placements and campaigns. The act creates no authorities for domestic censorship. I would call assertions to the contrary "disinformation" as the text of the bill is brief and unambiguous - although its mandates certainly will result in distribution of disinformation to U.S. audiences through private sector propaganda organs, censorship is no part of the mission described. Claims that S.2692, the "Countering Information Warfare Act of 2016" creates authorities for domestic censorship are very damaging to the credibility of anyone making such claims.
Also regrettable: ITHACA does not seem to have a web presence of any kind, which leaves reporting on their activities in the hands of "fringe" press outlets who will, as noted above, poison the narrative by presenting it in a context of prejudicial commentary and disinformation.
I have seen extensive documentation and anecdotal evidence that strongly validates the gross systemic abuses the quoted ITHACA press release describes. I consider /all/ Court ordered custodial relationships components of the Prison Industrial Complex. U.S. Courts turn a blind eye to endemic criminal abuse of the human "cash cow commodities" created by Court order, to protect their own reputations. This behavior makes the Court an accessory to these acts, and establishes a feedback loop of perverse incentives that makes legal remedies effectively impossible. Instances of kickbacks and corruption only exacerbate this already intolerable systemic disorde r.
Also note the law that prohibited US government agencies from propagandizing US citizens in the US (originally meant to control RFE/RL et al content from being distributed in the US) was quietly removed from the books a few years ago.
de facto ministry of propaganda in the State Department,
At the Pentagon Doug Feith ran it... The OSP/I. DO remember what the RumBum said: “And then there was the Office of Strategic Influence. You may recall that. And ‘oh my goodness gracious isn’t that terrible, Henny Penny the sky is going to fall.’ I went down that next day and said fine, if you want to savage this thing fine I’ll give you the corpse. There’s the name. You can have the name, but I’m gonna keep doing every single thing that needs to be done and I have.” Remember what Rumsfeld said every time your government says they’ll stop doing anything in response to public demand, including stopping the NSA from spying on us. They NEVER EVER EVER STOP lying to us and spying on us. With the media as accomplice... From 2002:
A search of the Nexis database indicates that no major U.S. media outlets– no national broadcast television news shows, no major U.S. newspapers, no wire services or major magazines– have reported Rumsfeld’s remarks. http://fair.org/press-release/the-office-of-strategic-influence-is-gone-but-...
Note that the Defense Department page with that Iraq War briefing garners a 404 error today. I checked it last year and it WAS there. My posting on the National Security Archive's "Special Plans and Double Meanings: Controversies over Deception, Intelligence, and Policy Counterterrorism, National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 456" http://auntieimperial.tumblr.com/post/77602215446 Rr
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