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Report: Many CIA ‘ghost prisoners’ still ‘disappeared’
Michael Roston
Published: Tuesday February 27, 2007
A report released yesterday by Human Rights Watch revealed that at least thirty-eight men detained in the Central Intelligence Agency’s secret prisons are still unaccounted for… time for Congress to boost its oversight in order to “monitor and police the abuses” that were suffered by these detainees.
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Check out a movie called Punishment Park I found it on Demonoid
“Punishment Park” is a pseudo-documentary purporting to be a film crews’s news coverage of the team of soldiers escorting a group of hippies, draft dodgers, and anti-establishment types across the desert in a type of capture the flag game. The soldiers vow not to interfere with the rebels’ progress and merely shepherd them along to their destination. At that point, having obtained their goal, they will be released. The film crew’s coverage is meant to insure that the military’s intentions are honorable. As the representatives of the 60’s counter-culture get nearer to passing this arbitrary test, the soldiers become increasingly hostile, attempting to force the hippies out of their pacifist behavior. A lot of this film appears improvised and in several scene real tempers seem to flare as some of the “acting” got overaggressive. This is a interesting exercise in situational ethics. The cinema-veritie style, hand-held camera, and ambiguous demands of the director – would the actors be able to maintain their roles given the hazing they were taking – pushed some to the brink. The cast’s emotions are clearly on the surface. Unfortunately this film has gone completely underground and is next to impossible to find. It would offer a captivating document of the distrust that existed between soldiers willfully serving in the military and those persons who opposed the war peacefully. It’s from 1971 but it could be now but nobody would know because it’s all done in secret.