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FYI - SOA used to be in Panama until it got booted in 1984. The School of the Americas (SOA), in 2001 renamed the “Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation,” is a combat training school for Latin American soldiers, located at Fort Benning, Georgia. Initially established in Panama in 1946, it was kicked out of that country in 1984 under the terms of the Panama Canal Treaty. Former Panamanian President, Jorge Illueca, stated that the School of the Americas was the “biggest base for destabilization in Latin America.” The SOA, frequently dubbed the “School of Assassins,” has left a trail of blood and suffering in every country where its graduates have returned. Over its 59 years, the SOA has trained over 60,000 Latin American soldiers in counterinsurgency techniques, sniper training, commando and psychological warfare, military intelligence and interrogation tactics. These graduates have consistently used their skills to wage a war against their own people. Among those targeted by SOA graduates are educators, union organizers, religious workers, student leaders, and others who work for the rights of the poor. Hundreds of thousands of Latin Americans have been tortured, raped, assassinated, “disappeared,” massacred, and forced into refugee by those trained at the School of Assassins. No shit Jim. Did you learn everything about this organization from the same po-communist website that prole did his "research?" Here's some Wiki sources for you, you dumb hick. And if you don't want to read them, you and Fairweather can start your very own death-squad hitlist of the authors. 1. SOA Watch. Notorious Graduates. Retrieved on November 16, 2005. 2. George Davies, ‘I’ll take the CIA torture suite’, The First Post, dated August 16, 2006, accessed August 14, 2006. 3. Candiotti, Susan. "Alleged anti-Castro terrorist Posada arrested", CNN, 2005-05-18. Retrieved on 2008-05-22. 4. National Lawyers Guild Calls for Immediate Extradition of Luis Posada to Venezuela, NLG press release, April 20, 2005. Accessed 24 February 2007. 5. the National Security Archive. LUIS POSADA CARRILES, THE DECLASSIFIED RECORD. 6. Paul Mulshine. The War in Central America Continues. Retrieved on 6 November 2007. 7. Bay Area Protesters Sentenced in Georgia CommonDreams.org 8. Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation. FAQ. 9. Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation. History of the Institute. 10. Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation. A Welcome from the Commandant. Retrieved on May 16, 2006. 11. Democracy & Human Rights at WHINSEC 12. Center for International Policy. Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation. Retrieved on May 6, 2006. 13. Lisa Haugaard. US Training Manuals Declassified. Retrieved on May 6, 2006. 14. Unmatched Power, Unmet Principles: The Human Rights Dimensions of US Training of Foreign Military and Police Forces 2002 Report of Amnesty International USA (Amnesty International USA). Amnesty International (2002). Retrieved on April 14, 2006. *Pentagon Investigation Concludes that Techniques in SOA manuals were ‘mistakes.’. SOA Watch (February 21, 1997). Retrieved on April 14, 2006. 15. "Fact Sheet Concerning Training Manuals Containing Materials Inconsistent With U.S. Policy" (August 27 1992). From the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense/Public Affairs Office. 16. School of the Americas Watch. National Venezuela Solidarity Conference. Retrieved on May 6, 2006. 17. School of the Americas Watch. Argentina & Uruguay abandon SOA!. Retrieved on May 6, 2006. 18. School of the Americas Watch. ¡No Más! No More!. Retrieved on May 6, 2006. 19. School of the Americas Watch. Costa Rica to Cease Police Training at the SOA/WHINSEC. Retrieved on May 31, 2007. 20. School of the Americas Watch. Bolivian Military Withdraws from Controversial U.S. Army Training School. Retrieved on February 18, 2008. 21. The Library of Congress. H.R.1217. Retrieved on May 6, 2006. 22. School of the Americas Watch. About SOA Watch. Retrieved on May 6, 2006. 23. SOA Watch. SOA/WHINSEC Grads in the News. Retrieved on March 6, 2008. 24. SOA Watch. Critique of the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation. Retrieved on November 16, 2005. 25. Krickl, Tony (February 3 2007). "CGU Student Josh Harris to Spend Two Months in Federal Prison for Protesting". Claremont Courier. 26. Associated Press. US trained Colombian soldiers jailed for working with cartel, says human rights group. Retrieved on August 18, 2007. 27. Paul Mulshine. The War in Central America Continues. Retrieved on 6 November 2007. 28. also in "The New Strategy", Time Magazine, 1965-04-23. 29. [1] Paper by Amy Zalman, Ph.D. Further reading * Danner, Mark (2004). Torture and Truth: America, Abu Ghraib, and the War on Terror. New York Review Books. ISBN 1-59017-152-7. * Harbury, Jennifer K. (2005). Truth, Torture, and the American Way. Beacon Press. ISBN 0-8070-0307-7. Review, "Highlights parallels in the practices of U.S. government operatives and their local “assets” in the current conflict and in the civil wars that wracked Central America in the 1980s and early 1990s." * Ireland, Doug (July 22 2004). "Teaching Torture: Despite a lot of talk about torture being "un-American," Congress is quietly keeping alive the School of the Americas, our country's infamous torture-training school". LA Weekly. * Monbiot, George (October 30 2001). "Backyard terrorism: The US has been training terrorists at a camp in Georgia for years - and it's still at it". The Guardian. * O'Neill, Patrick (2005 February 18). "SOA protesters headed for prison: Sister, students among 14 charged with trespass at Army school". National Catholic Reporter. * Priest, Dana (September 21 1996). "U.S. Instructed Latins On Executions, Torture; Manuals Used 1982-91, Pentagon Reveals". The Washington Post: Section: A Pg. A01. * Quigley, Bill. "The Case for Closing the School of the Americas". BYU Journal of Public Law (20 BYU J. Pub. L. 1) 20 (1). * Richter, Robert. (1996) Inside the School of the Assassins [VHS]. * Inside the School of the Assassins at the Internet Movie Database * Smihula, John. (2003) Hidden in Plain Sight. * Leah Wells (2003). Hidden in Plain Sight Review. Common Dreams NewsCenter. Retrieved on April 14, 2006. * Hidden in Plain Sight at the Internet Movie Database * Unknown, Author (February 18 2005). "More than an image problem: During the familiar annual processing ritual for School of the Americas protesters this year, new information surfaced about a comprehensive plan devised by the U.S. Army to deflect criticism of the school". National Catholic Reporter. * Google's new "FEATURE-rich query environment": Kucinich + School of the Americas = MalWare Alert! "proceed at your own risk" * Gill, Lesley. The School of the Americas - Military Training and Political Violence in the Americas. Durham: Duke University Press, 2004.

Um, you left something out comrade Jim. I've made your statement more accurate: Among those targeted by SOA graduates are communist educators, communist union organizers, communist religious workers, communist student leaders, and others communists who work for the rights of the poor. These right wing killers are almost always a direct and proportional response to the emergence of Marxist/Leninist insurgency. Do you expect people to just roll over? You and Prole don't seem too happy to hear about events in Colombia? A. You're a fucking psychopath. Get help. B. sickie

I got no love for no FARC, but your simpleton's description of those conflicts sure ain't shedding any light on the subject.

This might jog your Stroh's-pickled brain: Ft. Benning's SOA Graduates in the News

Well, at least Fairweather liked it.

Oops, I forgot...the Latin American right-wing paramilitary death squads train at Ft. Benning. Silly me.

Colombian right-wing paramilitary death squads working with some of your buddies from Ft. Bragg?

So you didn't like the bit?

Did someone say Rush Limbaugh? This one never gets old.

No personal offense to you, but I'm hoping like hell that he puts you and your "co-workers" out of work.

He should be okay with just the Brunswick Stew though.

To Serve Man by Cindy McCain Seriously, I'm waiting for her to bite the head off a canary and her human-mask to fall off revealing her true lizard self.

Is this kinda what you guys meant? 'Cause the Secret Service might have some issues here.

In your face, jizzburping turd-burglars! This is so much huge-er than that whole Bush/Kerry fishing thing. You guys are doomed!

Do you design emoticons for a living?

I think Cheney lost the rock-paper-scissors on that one. Probably still upset about it.

Oh yeah, and waterboarding Newt Gingrich.

I'd start with supporting the continued ban on off-shore drilling, staying out of ANWR, and doing the opposite of whatever Jay_B's Dr. Strangelove econocomputer geeks tell us we should do.

Ha! I wouldn't expect it any other way. You guys are the ones insisting that these things be left to the market! Once again market-man Mr. Magoo follows the path of least resistance to the shortest possible term gain. See also: Conservation vs. Rising Food Prices

It's called "irony". The American right-wing might want to look it up before they start naming any more government institutions after the "homeland" and things like that.

I haven't seen moral outrage like this since that real-estate developer burned down his McMansions and blamed it on the ecoterrerisms.

This is cool.

Fuck it. Let's just drill.

It only seems that way because you live in the dankest shithole in North America.