StOP JOHN BRENNAN AND OBAMA NOW!

YOU WANT TO KNOW WHY PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD HATE THE USA? TORTURE ISN'T SOMETHING ONLY IN MOVIES LIKE ZERO DARK THIRTY.

Take a look at what the government did to Khaled El-Masri with your tax dollars: picked him up in Macedonia, flew him to Afghanistan to imprison him for 4 months where they tortured him for 4 months--including electric shock and sodomy. (So yes, we have people on staff who sodomize the wrongly imprisoned.) After the CIA realized they were looking for a terrorist suspect with a similar name and this wasn't him that guy, they then dumped him on the side of the road in Albania with nothing. Not an explanation, not a penny. This guy was a car salesman from Bavaria with no terrorist ties whatsoever. Albanian officials flew him home to Germany, but his wife had left him and he now suffers from mental breakdowns. He was awarded 60,000 euros by the UK government, but his life is ruined--in and out of jail after attacking the mayor, punching a guard, etc. Obama has refused to address the ACLU lawsuit which was dismissed due to "state secrets." Now Obama wants John Brennan to head the CIA and carry on with this madness. And they want to include US citizens in the people they can pick up, torture, detain indefinitely and kill us without a trial. We used to pride ourselves on not torturing like other countries we looked down on. Now Obama is desperate to appoint this torture czar John Brennan even though he wasn't approved the first time around. I hope you're proud of a country which uses your tax dollars to imprison and rape car salesmen. And wants to do it to US citizens.


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