about witches and all that nonsense.

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  The June 10, 1692 hanging of Bridget Bishop
  • Teenage "witches" were hung, burnt at the stake, drawn and quartered.
  • American society has always been brutal and ignorant. There are more than three million people in prison in the U.S.A. mostly for marijuana and lesser drug charges that can get them ten- year sentences. Negroes were murdered by lynching or severe flogging. Hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese civilians were murdered bombed, and mulilated by napalm.
  • Native Americans were hunted down and whole populations eliminated, not sparing children or infants.

  • x-Detainee Describes Gitmo Tortures

    May 21, 08 12:02 PM CDT A man arrested in Pakistan and held as an enemy combatant in Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay was hung from the ceiling, beaten, and shocked with jolts of electricity, he testified to Congress yesterday. The German-born Turkish citizen told lawmakers that US interrogators also forced water down his throat. He was released without charge after nearly 5 years in custody. More »

  • Judge Orders CIA to Release 'Torture' Memo

    May 9, 08 6:30 AM CDT A federal judge has ordered the CIA to release a 2002 memo believed to outline interrogation methods that may amount to torture. The ACLU, which brought the suit sparking the order, claims that the memo details harsh interrogation techniques, including waterboarding, and calls it "one of the most important torture documents still being withheld by the Bush administration." The judge will decide whether to make the memo public on Monday, reports Reuters

The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings before local magistrates followed by county court trials to prosecute people accused of witchcraft in Essex, Suffolk, and Middlesex Counties of colonial Massachusetts, between February 1692 and May 1693. Over 150 people were arrested and imprisoned, with even more accused who were not formally pursued by the authorities. The two courts convicted twenty-nine people of the capital felony of witchcraft. Nineteen of the accused, fourteen women and five men, were hanged. One man who refused to enter a plea was crushed to death under heavy stones in an attempt to force him to do so. At least five more of the accused died in prison.*

A Harvard Witch Hunt: 50 Years Later, Files Show University Ousted Professor in Red-Baiting Move

In the red-baiting heydays of the early 1950s, Sen. Joseph McCarthy called Harvard a “smelly mess” where students risked “indoctrination by Communist professors.”

Despite being generally known as the "Salem" witch trials, the preliminary hearings in 1692 were conducted in a variety of towns across the province: Salem Village, Ipswich, Andover, as well as Salem Town, Massachusetts. The best-known trials were conducted by the Court of Oyer and Terminer in 1692 in Salem Town. All twenty-six who went to trial before this court were convicted. The four sessions of the Superior Court of Judicature in 1693, held in Salem Town, but also in Ipswich, Boston, and Charlestown, produced only three convictions in the thirty-one witchcraft trials it conducted.*

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The interrogations and treatment and torture of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay by the United States is in the same tradition as the Salem Witch Trials , the murder of the Rosenbergs and the anti communist witch-hunts of the fifties. America has not changed much in its medieval thinking.

waterboarding demonstration

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