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1. There's been a lot of talk about how the shit the Feds are doing in Portland is "the war on terror coming home", followed by some necessary pushback from Black and Muslim people who've always lived under those conditions. There's a much larger
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Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
2. story to be told here about how what's euphemistically counter-insurgency strategy moves around the world and the ways in which the stuff we're seeing now is a product of the basis of the American military and the police in fighting Indigenous
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Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
3. people and maintaining the slave system. Someone who's a better historian than me should write that lol. What I'm going to talk about here is a more recent example of how torture techniques moved from the American wars in Korea and Vietnam
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Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
4. to Chicago and then on to Guantanamo Bay. Most Chicagoans are familiar with Jon Burge, a Chicago police detective who tortured hundreds of Black men and women into false confessions in the 70's and 80's. Burge became
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Moreover, ICE must be destroyed https://theappeal.org/chicago-police-torture-explained/
5. essentially synonymous with the horror of that era of Chicago policing. Burge seems to have learned most of the torture techniques he learned from the atrocities American troops committed in Vietnam and Korea, where
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Moreover, ICE must be destroyed https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/secret-origins-cias-torture-program-and-forgotten-man-who-tried-expose-it/
6. Burge did multiple tours. But Burge was far from the only Chicago Police detective torturing Chicagoans in the 70's and 80's. On the North Side, a detective named Richard Zuley was one of many carrying out a campaign of torture similar to
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Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
7. Burge's. He too developed a reputation for extracting confessions, one powerful enough that when the CIA was having problems torturing people hard enough to make them confess, they brought Zuley to Guantanamo to help
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Moreover, ICE must be destroyed https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/feb/18/american-police-brutality-chicago-guantanamo
8. run the torture program. The torture methods Zuley employed at Guantanamo was incredibly similar to the torture methods used by Burge, which in turn match descriptions of torture by American soldiers in Vietnam. The counter-insurgency apparatus
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Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
9. freely from country to country, from war to war, from US abroad and back again, often following the career paths of individual torturers themselves. Many of the tactics currently used by American riot police were originally developed by the
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Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
10. British colonial police in Hong Kong to suppress the 1967 Hong Kong riots, just one part of the broader web of counter-insurgency and counter-terrorism exchanges that produce the tactics we see today. Counter-insurgency is the core of empire
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Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
11. itself and until it's destroyed the atrocities will continue.
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
