The authoritarian state tortures and kills

For anyone who thinks the atrocities uncovered at Camp X Ray or Abu Graib (sp?) were unusual for the civilised Americans, have a look at this documentation of the systematic torture and murder inside US jails and youth detention facilitities.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8451.htm

Please feel free to delude yourself that conditions are totally different in Australia, where about 25% of the Indigenous population are locked up, along with a high proportion of our mentally ill population.