Tuesday, May 31, 2016

Re: [blind-democracy] Obama's Government Is Violently Tasering, 'Body Bagging' Refugees

Can we say, disgusting?
Of course we can.
It's a beautiful day in our body bag...
(apologies to Fred Rogers)

Either Barak Obama is being kept totally ignorant, or he is not really
our Prince of Peace. Peace loving Princes do not, I repeat, do not
allow people to be shoved into body bags and Tasered.
Darth Vader, on the other hand...
Am I the only one who sees a bit of Darth Vader in Barak Obama?

Carl Jarvis





On 5/30/16, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@optonline.net> wrote:
>
> Excerpt: "A large group of South Asian migrants and refugees say they were
> placed in 'body bags' and subjected to the use of tasers by Immigration and
> Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers as they were deported from the United
> States, the Guardian reported Friday."
>
> A holding facility for children detained at the US-Mexico border in
> Nogales,
> Arizona. (photo: Ross D. Franklin/Pool Photo)
>
>
> Obama's Government Is Violently Tasering, 'Body Bagging' Refugees
> By teleSUR
> 28 May 16
>
> "When I came to the US I had a dream... Now, I don't even want to say the
> word America."
> A large group of South Asian migrants and refugees say they were placed in
> "body bags" and subjected to the use of tasers by Immigration and Customs
> Enforcement (ICE) officers as they were deported from the United States,
> the
> Guardian reported Friday.
> In early April, 85 Bangladeshis, Nepalis and Indians that had failed to
> gain
> asylum or otherwise secure legal status were sent back home on a charter
> flight from Mesa, Arizona.
> According to detainees that were interviewed, in order to place a detainee
> in what they called body bags, a group of ICE officers would pin them to
> the
> ground, tightly wrap them in a security blanket and fasten them with Velcro
> belts. Once the deportee was restrained in such a manner, they were carried
> on to the plane.
> "That's something that made us really afraid," said Suhel Ahmed, a detainee
> who told The Guardian about his experience witnessing these incidents. "And
> me and a lot of fellow detainees started crying and begging [the ICE
> officers] not to do the same thing to us - we told them, 'we'll walk,
> 'we'll
> walk' [on to the plane]."
> Ahmed also recounted being in fear at witnessing people being tasered.
> "My body was shaking [in fear]," said Ahmed, describing how he watched
> people being shocked.
> In an email to the Guardian, ICE officials admitted that ICE officers had
> used "minimal force" during boarding after "approximately a dozen of the
> detainees refused to comply with officers' instructions and became
> combative." In such an instance, they said, restraint blankets may also be
> used.
> However, ICE officers denied the taser allegations.
> But despite the ICE's claims that only minimal force was used, all 85
> detainees were handcuffed throughout their journey, which sometimes lasted
> over 30 hours and resulted in them suffering minor injuries. Some detainees
> were even left bleeding.
> These allegations, if true, are extremely troubling and must be
> investigated," Paromita Shah, the associate director of the National
> Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild told The Guardian.
> Fahd Ahmed, the executive director of Drum, a New York-based immigrants'
> rights organization said to the Guardian: "Trump talks about building walls
> or banning Muslims while the Obama administration is preventing refugees,
> Muslims and others from seeking safety here, violently abusing such
> migrants, and then colluding with other governments to deport them back to
> their deaths."
> Back in Bangladesh, where many of the migrants and refugees were from, fear
> for their lives and live in hiding.
> "When I came to the US I had a dream - this is the country of peace and
> justice and human rights," said Khaled Miah, 36, describing why he had
> embarked on the dangerous journey. "Now, I don't even want to say the word,
> 'America'."
> Error! Hyperlink reference not valid. Error! Hyperlink reference not
> valid.
>
> A holding facility for children detained at the US-Mexico border in
> Nogales,
> Arizona. (photo: Ross D. Franklin/Pool Photo)
> http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Obamas-Govt-Is-Violently-Tasering-Body
> -Bagging-Refugees---20160528-0005.htmlhttp://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/
> Obamas-Govt-Is-Violently-Tasering-Body-Bagging-Refugees---20160528-0005.html
> Obama's Government Is Violently Tasering, 'Body Bagging' Refugees
> By teleSUR
> 28 May 16
> "When I came to the US I had a dream... Now, I don't even want to say the
> word America."
> large group of South Asian migrants and refugees say they were placed in
> "body bags" and subjected to the use of tasers by Immigration and Customs
> Enforcement (ICE) officers as they were deported from the United States,
> the
> Guardian reported Friday.
> In early April, 85 Bangladeshis, Nepalis and Indians that had failed to
> gain
> asylum or otherwise secure legal status were sent back home on a charter
> flight from Mesa, Arizona.
> According to detainees that were interviewed, in order to place a detainee
> in what they called body bags, a group of ICE officers would pin them to
> the
> ground, tightly wrap them in a security blanket and fasten them with Velcro
> belts. Once the deportee was restrained in such a manner, they were carried
> on to the plane.
> "That's something that made us really afraid," said Suhel Ahmed, a detainee
> who told The Guardian about his experience witnessing these incidents. "And
> me and a lot of fellow detainees started crying and begging [the ICE
> officers] not to do the same thing to us - we told them, 'we'll walk,
> 'we'll
> walk' [on to the plane]."
> Ahmed also recounted being in fear at witnessing people being tasered.
> "My body was shaking [in fear]," said Ahmed, describing how he watched
> people being shocked.
> In an email to the Guardian, ICE officials admitted that ICE officers had
> used "minimal force" during boarding after "approximately a dozen of the
> detainees refused to comply with officers' instructions and became
> combative." In such an instance, they said, restraint blankets may also be
> used.
> However, ICE officers denied the taser allegations.
> But despite the ICE's claims that only minimal force was used, all 85
> detainees were handcuffed throughout their journey, which sometimes lasted
> over 30 hours and resulted in them suffering minor injuries. Some detainees
> were even left bleeding.
> These allegations, if true, are extremely troubling and must be
> investigated," Paromita Shah, the associate director of the National
> Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild told The Guardian.
> Fahd Ahmed, the executive director of Drum, a New York-based immigrants'
> rights organization said to the Guardian: "Trump talks about building walls
> or banning Muslims while the Obama administration is preventing refugees,
> Muslims and others from seeking safety here, violently abusing such
> migrants, and then colluding with other governments to deport them back to
> their deaths."
> Back in Bangladesh, where many of the migrants and refugees were from, fear
> for their lives and live in hiding.
> "When I came to the US I had a dream - this is the country of peace and
> justice and human rights," said Khaled Miah, 36, describing why he had
> embarked on the dangerous journey. "Now, I don't even want to say the word,
> 'America'."
> http://e-max.it/posizionamento-siti-web/socialize
> http://e-max.it/posizionamento-siti-web/socialize
>
>
>

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