British Army covers up "Deaths in Custody" in Iraq

I don't like the term "deaths in custody", it's another example of passive language deflecting responsibility. It would be inaccurate, however, to say murders, on the whole, although certainly many of these "deaths in custody" were British soldiers murdering captives because, well, that's the military psychosis.



'Hooding', IMHO, is a non issue. That won't kill people. The real issue is who gets bored and decides to take out a little of their frustration on someone who more than likely didn't deserve it. In fact even if they were trying to kill our troops they don't deserve it, the fact is we should not be there and our being there is the first aggression to which, in truth, anyone brave/suicidal enough does have a right to respond forcibly to. Think about it, we gave Iraq a real life Red Dawn. They as any people have a right to resist foreign oppression.

There are the troops I support, which is the majority, who join for at least semi-wholesome reasons and are not bad people, then there are the ones who I do not support, who enjoy being the interrogator because they are, frankly, thugs. They'll probably become police when they go back to 'civvy street' so that they can have the thrill of crushing someone's face into the tarmac then tasering them. Fun. At least our police aren't as far down the line towards being total thugs like in America, although to be honest it could just be the steroids the US pigs take with their donuts.

Of course, it's not the individuals who are solely to blame - the military and police hierachies encourage this. Take a look at what happened to the ossifer who killed Ian Tomlinson. Or rather, don't, because there's nothing to see. Even the pig who shot Oscar Grant in cold blood, with multiple people filming, only got manslaughter.

'Oddly', the CCTV that should have filmed that event sadly failed, like the CCTV when John Charles de Menezes was killed, or the CCTV when Diana was killed. Oh well, these things happen I guess.