Libertas Continued

Here is a question: If you torture confessions out of people, and use those confessions as evidence, how do you ever know what the truth is? I can torture you into saying your mother murdered Abraham Lincoln, that doesn't make it so. Should I arrest and imprison your mom? What will she say about you, when I torture her? In less than one week, the San Francisco 8 - former Black Panthers and other activists - will have a preliminary hearing in San Francisco. They are being charged with the murder of a police officer in 1971. The charges are based on confessions extracted by torture, and it is clear that the indictments against these men are an attempt to rewrite the history of the Black Panthers and the gains of the Civil Rights movement. Take action today and support the San Francisco 8 . In 1973, New Orleans police employed torture over the course of several days to obtain information from members of the Black Panthers about the death of Sergeant John Young, an officer of the San F