How to Train Death Squads and Squash Revolutions

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Is this strategy good or evil?

http://wikileaks.org/wiki/How_to_train_ ... dor_to_you

Here are the cliff notes:

Reminds me of owners who train their pit bulls to be fighting dogs. Works for a while until disaster strikes once their dogs are set loose and attacking harmless strangers randomly.

Then it's goodbye dog and hello new dog. The pattern is pretty much the same, they're only purpose is to be used and abused.

It's ironic that (say) Latin American countries are seen as crazy human rights abusers because they're somehow inherently/culturally/whatever just savages -- when it turns out they were taught how (and encouraged, or even pushed) to do that by the 'civilised world.'

Check out "The School of the Americas." It's a university for such tactics (and located in the USA). So much for loving freedom.

I've never heard of that school til now. Pretty scary...

Quotes taken from:

http://www.soaw.org/

General Romeo Vasquez, the head of the armed forces who led the military coup against the democratically elected president Zelaya, is a graduate of the notorious School of the Americas (SOA).

"The U.S. Army School of the Americas...is a school that has run more dictators than any other school in the history of the world."
- Congressman Joseph Kennedy (In total, the School has produced at least eleven Latin American dictators.)

Honduras - like the rest of Latin America - has first hand experience with bloody work of School of the Americas graduates and with SOA trained military dictators:

In 1975, SOA Graduate General Juan Melgar Castro became the military dictator of Honduras. From 1980-1982 the dictatorial Honduran regime was headed by, yet another SOA graduate, Policarpo Paz Garcia, who intensified repression and murder by Battalion 3-16, one of the most feared death squads in all of Latin America (founded by Honduran SOA graduates with the help of Argentine SOA graduates).

"[I took] a course in intelligence at the school of the Americas [in which I saw] a lot of videos which showed the type of interrogation and torture they used in Vietnam. Although many people refuse to accept it, all this is organized by the U.S. government."

It appears they've been plagiarizing from me.

They're just a little confused about the difference between "cautionary tale" and "instruction manual."

The sad thing is that these very techniques are being used inside the USA against people more and more regularly...especially any person or group that challenges the broken status quo.