Thread: The crisis in Syria

Human bones found at infamous Florida reform school | The Raw Story

Another example of horrendous torture of children in the US. This concerns the infamous Dozier Reform School for Boys in Florida. So far, more than 50 bodies have been found, of young boys who were so badly beaten and tortured, under the auspices of the school's "corporal punishment program," that they died. The school never reported their deaths, it just covered everything up, and buried the boys on school grounds.

This was only just discovered in 2011 and was just in the news again today because more bodies were found.

In the short time since the school closed in 2011, survivors and relatives of Dozier residents have come forward with stories about students there being subjected to sexual abuse, regular beatings and deaths that were either not explained or outright suspicious in nature.

Torture, brutality, atrocities, murder of children... is not limited to Syria, unfortunately. It is a sickening and disgusting state of humanity.




http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013...n-florida?lite

Some "large-bone fragments" were found on the first day of digging, Wells said. They were human bones, he added, but it was impossible to know if they came from any of the teenaged boys who were housed at Dozier during its infamous 111-year existence. The school was closed in mid-2011.

The bones will be examined in laboratories at the University of South Florida and the University of North Texas, as part of a program funded by the U.S. Department of Justice and state of Florida.

Originally Posted by Deborski

Human bones found at infamous Florida reform school | The Raw Story

Another example of horrendous torture of children in the US. This concerns the infamous Dozier Reform School for Boys in Florida. So far, more than 50 bodies have been found, of young boys who were so badly beaten and tortured, under the auspices of the school's "corporal punishment program," that they died. The school never reported their deaths, it just covered everything up, and buried the boys on school grounds.

This was only just discovered in 2011 and was just in the news again today because more bodies were found.



Torture, brutality, atrocities, murder of children... is not limited to Syria, unfortunately. It is a sickening and disgusting state of humanity.




Human bones found in dig at notorious Dozier reform school in Florida - U.S. News

That's just horrifying, Deb, a middle east style torture facility in the middle of Florida! I think there had been plenty of very good reasons to shut down that hellhole forever. I hope it never opens again. In the meantime, the U.S. juridical system actually recognizes those actions taken by the staff as really serious felonies, and if anyone of those who committed that is still alive, they're most likely going to jail for the rest of their lives.

Originally Posted by Eric C.

That's just horrifying, Deb, a middle east style torture facility in the middle of Florida! I think there had been plenty of very good reasons to shut down that hellhole forever. I hope it never opens again. In the meantime, the U.S. juridical system actually recognizes those actions taken by the staff as really serious felonies, and if anyone of those who committed that is still alive, they're most likely going to jail for the rest of their lives.

Yes, this one got shut down... but only after getting away with it for over ONE HUNDRED YEARS.

And I could provide dozens, if not hundreds, of examples of abuse, rape, torture, child molestation and so on that takes place in America's "for profit" prison industry as well. And as for our "justice system" - it does not always work nearly as well we would like to believe it does. In Texas, sheriff's deputies routinely grope the genitals of random citizens just because they get some kind of perverted kick out of it. All around the country, churches encourage parents to "pray to god" rather than seek medical attention when their kids are sick. Police stomped all over the protesters during the Occupy movement. There are rampant stories about the most horrible things you can imagine when you scratch beneath the veneer of "the land of the free."

I'm not in any way minimizing what is going on in Syria, I am just trying to put it into perspective. If every country acted like the US and decided to police the world with its military forces, I imagine a hundred nuclear bombs might be launched on our nation in retaliation for our many crimes against humanity, not just in our own country, but overseas!

What about all the chemical weapons the US has used? Remember "agent orange"? What about Nagasaki and Hiroshima where hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians died? Those atrocities were not even necessary - despite all the justifications our government has brainwashed us with - because Japan was ready to surrender before we even dropped the bombs. It was all just a big show of force, to establish the US as the new bully on the block.