SUBJECTS: THE PRESIDENT, TORTURE, Let’s start this off with the understanding that what is written here is as I see it based on 79 years of a very active life and research into “situations” of the recent past and current happenings and to the conclusions drawn from it.

PRESIDENT:

First I want it known that Mr. Obama can not be my President of the United States of America. Period. Therefore all acts of government requiring Presidential action should be null and void. The reason for this determination is simply that he has not identified who he is and whence forth he came. If it took a “certified copy” of my birth certificate and a copy of my high school records for a volunteer enlistment into an US Navy active reserve program when I was 17 years of age and three other times I volunteered for military service, twice during war time, four times in uniform and having sworn allegiance to this and this Nation only. The last experience was 2 years (1966-1968) in Vietnam. How can Obama be my President when he at the most is a great pretender. Out of a population of some of most literate people in the world, (If you consider the results of the study that adults in American read and comprehend at a sixth grade level, 12 years of age) they elected a nobody. In actuality a parent teacher group chairman has more management and leadership experience, but maybe not as much mass media support as Obama, any way we do not select our candidates, the media does for us.

How did this happen, as I see it he is the pawn created by George Soros and his Zionist elitists as one step they believed necessary to dominate this Nation and loot it of its wealth in order to establish their New World Order (NWO). (Note, “their” and not “our” world order.) Their ambitions have no limits from already robbing this Nation of 60% or more of its wealth (as of this writing) and wars to further their profits.

CONCLUSION:
ANY AMERICAN SUITABLE TO BE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA WOULD (SHOULD) BE PROUD OF HIS OR HER ACADEMIC ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND HIS PLACE OF BIRTH. UNTIL I SEE OBAMA’S QUALIFICATIONS HE IS A PRETENDER, NOT PRESIDENT. I BELIEVE IT IS MY RIGHT TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE IDENTIFIABLE CRITERIA FOR THE PRESIDENT OF MY COUNTRY, NO ACCEPT IONS TO THIS.

TORTURE:

(Every one has been talking about torture, one would think it was taught in our schools, people, lighten up you don’t know the facts.) There are limits to what I can say due to the circumstances of my employment and the assignments I was given. There is no statute of limitations on heinous crimes internationally especially committed by civilians within a war zone. I must say that I did not approve the torture or killing of any one, I was complaisant only because I was a field agent operating within an organization known to torture and murder as a routine nature. Intelligence of all enemies, his order of battle, areas of operation, and the insurgency involvement are the essential links to all successful operations, insurgencies or pacifications. In Vietnam this was NVA and VC, the North Vietnam army and the local Viet Gong, along with supporting infrastructure.

I don’t understand the public attachment to the subject, the act of torture has unlimited methods and is old as history. I assume it is the intriguing nature of terminology “water boarding” which is actually the suffocation or fainting suffocation by denying oxygen to victim’s lungs.

Physiological effect of stopping the lungs from getting oxygen into the blood and into all muscles is that all the muscles scream at the brain, “Do something, do something”. The brain screams back, move us to a place we can get air. But the body is strapped rigidly to a board and can not respond. The interactions between mental and physiological processes begins to affect the brain and reasoning to react to questions to relieve the stress. A miss in judgment as to when to stop the suffocation makes the process ineffective or if excessive results in death, with the body showing no signs of physical abuse such as visible marks of injuries associated with torture. From observation I doubt a skilled torturer would need at most 2 to 3 applications. The original and best method was to use a board with the victim tightly secured to it like a teeter board to put the head with out blind folding under the water. But amateur torturers use a wet cloth over the face while the victim is tightly secured in a chair and pouring water over the cloth covered face to produce suffocation. Recent news articals quote that some prisoners had been water tortured 166 times, this would be impossible if done correctly. The face to face, eye to eye contact between questioner and victim during the induced suffocating is important; the visual contact is a key to breaking down the victim. Once you have seen the fear in the face of the victim, you will never forget it.

The other torture electric shock which was used by putting a bamboo stick back of the victims knees and arms folded around his legs below the bamboo securing the victim in a tight fetal position. Again like the water board major muscle groups could not move, and when electric shock was applied the brain was screaming to muscles to move and get way from this, the body can not respond and this begins to break down the mental process. Confusing the brain making it more susceptive to questioning to avoid further pain, if over done, in both of these methods the physical condition of the victim limits results, abuse of electric shock can produce a victim with complete loss of all body functions they never recover from and death.

I was given a ditto copy on arrival in Vietnam of the translation of the original French book on the methods use to attack the Algerian NLF, they use beatings, water boarding, and electric shock, all victims taken into custody were never released. For some high ranking prisoners who with held information of importance to breaking the NLF structure were confined in a box where they could not extent their arms and legs fully. Their elbows and knees were burned with blow torch to a serious third degree burn that crusted and any movement was excessively painful; cooperate, talk and we will treat the burns and take you out of the box. Apparently few did cooperate because the French did break down the NLF structure.

I do not endorse any torture; it is not necessary and exposes the possibility of reciprocal treatment. During 2 years in Vietnam I never observed either method use directly by American personnel, however all were used inside American-Vietnamese establishments controlled by an American agency where one could see frequent the use of these methods. During my service in Vietnam I had Vietnamese Police Special Branch ID and access to many of their operations and facilities. (Of those being tortured in my presence none were connected to my operations, however in all cases I asked for and received the prisoner’s dossier and without exception if it had been my decision I would have killed the prisoner on first contact.) In insurgency operations there are “thugs” and citizen paramilitary, the thugs are criminals, not prisoners of war. Does the USA have thugs, yes? Is the US military competent enough to fight an insurgency or urban opponent, the issue is in doubt at this time; old ways and traditions are slow to change.

I was assigned to prepare a Field Manual for Psychological Warfare Operations Against Insurgency Population, based on field experiences and other research I completed the manual. And did not submit it for reasons. However this was before the 1968 Tet attacks and after Tet I had submitted a memo to Phoenix (CIA) highly critical of US operations, the US military had become active in the Phoenix program and was enhancing their successes at “body counting“ reporting and it was my opinion that my manual would unnecessarily increase this activity. (Phoenix was often being referred to as “Murder Incorporated”). I have read the current counter insurgency manual on this subject written by Gen Petreaus, the American military has not figured it out yet. A recent sign of hope has been the Pentagon is researching the subject but to over come the military idea that operations have to make a lot of noise using explosives and report a high ratio of body count, these efforts will always fail.

The other aspect of torture is ”intimidation” and the methods to force non combatants compliance to support or participate with the insurgency which can be more horrible than the difficult and abusive methods of interrogation we now refer to as ”torture”. My field experience was usually out side of the typical military operations by working with the Vietnamese Chieu Hoi armed ropaganda teams and other elements working in the partially secure and insecure areas of the provinces. Insurgencies still appear to be beyond the comprehension of our military. The answers are all around them they just don’t see it. Their mistake is referring to “counter insurgency”, which usually makes the insurgency more active and aggressive or go under ground and await future opportunities to their advantage. Insurgencies are stolen and not defeated. Insurgencies generally develop over disagreements over any number of issues between authorities whose actions are in dispute with a portion of the population. When there develops no opportunity to settle their differences they organize into a force to settle their differences. (Sounds like 1776?)

All forms of intimidation are forms of torture often much more inhuman than the torture applied in confinement, even war is torture when organized differently to produce results that favor any issue of disagreement for one side or the other. Air attacks improperly used cause more stress as torture than all the “water boarding” ever used. Yes, I understand that war is aggression, and violent as an approach toward security. As drones become the more effective methods of depersonalizing the attacker, the enemy becomes revengeful pushing hate into future generations. The drones and other methods of depersonalizing war continue; the greater the future solidification of hate toward the attacker as an invader. You win the fight you lose the war and prospect for peace. Granted there is no simple answer, but history shows we have yet to find the answer; or maybe the cause. If you think the physical abuse during interrogation is cruel and inhuman, nothing you have heard so far about torture by Americans would seem bad after you are detailed about intimidation used during insurgency style warfare. I do not understand the media harping about torture when they know nothing, nothing about it, the whys, where as, results. I will write about it in detail from my own observations and experiences after all the media have given up over exposing the torture issue. Intimidation methods of dealing with civilians to control situations against or for insurgency is brutal, terrible and while it is seldom an issue it does not happen in a confinement or other “safe” area, but in the field away from observers in most cases on an attack of non military population. Torture as in water boarding and beatings are child’s play in comparison to intimidation methods. But it can possibility be a standard military assault or operation twisted to produce fear, more than clearing and occupying territory as a torture.

REMEMBER, ALL WAR IS HELL, ALL’S FAIR IN WAR, AND TALKING ABOUT IT EVEN OVER THE CENTURIES HASN’T MADE IT LESS SO! TAKE RELIGION AND PROFIT OUT OF WAR AND THIS COULD BRING MORE PEACEFUL TIMES.

POST NO. 1 APRIL 30, 2009

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