Entries Tagged as 'torture'

Not Nice, ICE

The U.S. government has injected hundreds of foreigners it has deported with dangerous psychotropic drugs against their will to keep them sedated during the trip back to their home country … Internal government records show that most sedated deportees, such as Ade, received a cocktail of three drugs that included Haldol, also known as haloperidol, a medication normally used to treat schizophrenia and other acute psychotic states … They were also given Ativan, used to control anxiety, and … Cogentin, a medication that is supposed to lessen Haldol’s side effects of muscle spasms and rigidity … Haldol gained notoriety in the Soviet Union, where it was often given to political dissidents imprisoned in psychiatric hospitals.

Tags: Ativan, Cogentin, Haldol, immigration, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, psychotropics, torture by mike
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Washington DC Crime Wave

“Why are we talking about this in the White House?” John Ashcroft nervously asked his fellow members of the National Security Council’s Principals Committee. (The Principals were Vice President Dick Cheney, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Secretary of State Colin Powell, CIA Director George Tenet and Attorney General Ashcroft.) “History will not judge this kindly,” Ashcroft predicted. “This” is torture.

Tags: Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, George Bush, George Tenet, John Ashcroft, torture by mike
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