The law as it relates to mind control, slavery and torture
"Laws control the lesser man. Right conduct
controls the greater one" - Chinese proverb
Websites
Publications
18 USC Sec. 2340A, 01/05/99
"Whoever outside the United States commits or attempts to commit
torture shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 20 years, or
both..."
http://www.capdefnet.org/fdprc/contents/fed_cap_off/18_usc_2340A.htm
18 USC, Sec. 2340(1)
(1) "torture" means an act committed by a person acting under the
color of law specifically intended
to inflict severe physical or mental pain or suffering (other than pain or
suffering incidental to lawful
sanctions) upon another person within his custody or physical control;
(2) "severe mental pain or suffering" means the
prolonged mental harm caused by or resulting from
(A) the intentional infliction or threatened infliction of
severe physical pain or suffering;
(B) the administration or application, or threatened
administration or application, of
mind-altering substances or other procedures calculated to
disrupt profoundly the senses or the
personality;
(C) the threat of imminent death; or
(D) the threat that another person will imminently be
subjected to death, severe physical pain or
suffering, or the administration or application of
mind-altering substances or other procedures
calculated to disrupt profoundly the senses or personality...
http://www.capdefnet.org/fdprc/contents/shared_files/titles/18_usc_2340.htm
1990 U.S.
reservations, declarations, and understandings, Convention Against Torture and
Other Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
Section II: "...an act must be specifically intended to inflict severe
physical or mental pain or suffering."
http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/usdocs/tortres.html
1998 Public Law
105-320 - Torture Victims Relief Act of 1998
Sections 2 and 3 define torture as "the deliberate mental and physical
damage caused by governments to individuals to destroy individual personality
and terrorize society..includes the use of rape and other forms of sexual
violence by a person acting under the color of law upon another person under his
custody or physical control." Unfortunately, this relief act does not
provide aid for individuals who are tortured within the United States.
http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-in/getdoc.cgi?dbname=105_cong_public_laws&docid=f:publ320.105
2003 Public Law 108:21 - Prosecutorial
Remedies and Other Tools to end the Exploitation of Children Today Act
Title 1, Section 102 of P. L. 108:21 specifies that a person will receive the
death penalty if convicted of a crime that was committed at the offender's age
16 or older, in which the offender abuses a child, and the child dies, or
tortures a child, and the child dies. An added stipulation is that the child
must have been in the offender's care or control at the time of the murder.
Further, the murder can also have been "perpetrated as part of a pattern or
practice of assault or torture against [the] child or children," meaning
that the "assault or torture [has been] engaged in on at least two
occasions." Torture is defined in 18 USC, Sect. 2340(1) - see above. Note
to ritual abuse survivors: the death penalty does not apply if the person
held responsible was coerced
into performing an illegal act.
http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=108_cong_public_laws&docid=f:publ021.108.pdf
American Convention on Human Rights
http://www.hrcr.org/docs/American_Convention/oashr.html
Animal Law.Com: International
Institute for Animal Law
"AnimalLaw.com provides access to legislation and legal matters
pertaining to the rights and welfare of animals. AnimalLaw.com supports
information concerning animal cruelty, animal control, laboratory animal
welfare, the use of animals in education, product testing and in the laboratory,
animal control issues, and general animal welfare."
http://www.animallaw.com/index.cfm
Association for the Prevention of Torture
"Founded 27 years ago, in 1977, by Jean-Jacques Gautier and
based in Geneva, Switzerland, the Association for the Prevention of Torture
(APT) is an independent non-governmental organisation working worldwide to
prevent torture and ill-treatment."
http://www.apt.ch/
Center
for Constitutional Rights
"The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) is a non-profit
legal and educational organization dedicated to protecting and advancing the
rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution and the Universal Declaration of
Human Rights.."
http://www.ccr-ny.org/v2/home.asp
The Center for Law and Social Responsibility at New England
School of Law - Sexual Violence Legal News Online
http://www.nesl.edu/csr/svnews/
Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or
Degrading Treatment or Punishment
U.N. Office of the High Commissioner for
Human Rights
http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/instree/h2catoc.htm
European Convention for the Prevention of Torture and
Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
http://www.cpt.coe.int/en/documents/ecpt-version1989.htm
Fact Sheet No. 17, the Committee against Torture
U.N.
Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu6/2/fs17.htm
Human Rights Education: Backgrounder on Geneva Conventions
http://www.amnestyusa.org/education/geneva.html
Human Rights Fundamentals
Nancy Flowers, Editor
http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/edumat/hreduseries/hereandnow/Part-1/
whatare.htm
Human Rights Network International
"www.hrni.org is a collection of the most important
international documents related to human rights: instruments, case law,
articles, bibliographic references, Internet sites, reports and human rights
actors."
http://www.hrni.org/index_flash.html
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
http://www.hrcr.org/docs/Civil&Political/intlcivpol.html
International Humanitarian Law (Law of War)
FindLaw
http://news.findlaw.com/legalnews/lit/iraq/laws.html
International humanitarian law and human rights
ICRC
http://www.icrc.org/Web/Eng/siteeng0.nsf/html/section_ihl_and_human_rights?OpenDocument
International Instruments and Mechanisms for the Fight
against Torture - 2. International Torture Reporting Mechanisms and Complaint
Procedures
International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims
http://www.irct.org/usr/irct/home.nsf/unid/JREW-5FCHCU
Justice Expands
"Torture" Definition: Earlier Policy Drew Criticism by R. Jeffrey
Smith and Dan Eggen, Washington Post, 12/31/04
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A37687-2004Dec30?language=printer
The Law and Mind
Control: A Look At The Law And Government Mind Control Through Five Cases by
Helen L. McGonigle, Attorney at Law
August 15, 1999. CIA VS SIMS; UNITED STATES VS STANLEY; ORLIKOW, ET AL VS UNITED
STATES; KRONISCH VS UNITED STATES ET AL; HEINRICH,
ET AL VS SWEET, ET AL
http://members.aol.com/_ht_a/smartnews/fivecases.htm?mtbrand=AOL_US
The Legal Prohibition Against Torture
Human Rights
Watch report updated June 1, 2004
http://www.hrw.org/press/2001/11/TortureQandA.htm
Memorandum for Alberto R.
Gonzales, Counsel to the President - Re: Standards of Conduct for Interrogation
under 18 U.S.C. §§ 2340-2340A
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp_srv/nation/documents/dojinterrogationmemo20020801.pdf
Nuremberg Code
Reprinted by the Online Ethics Center for Engineering and Science
http://onlineethics.org/reseth/nuremberg.html
Principles of Medical Ethics relevant to the Role of Health
Personnel, particularly Physicians, in the Protection of Prisoners and Detainees
against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment,
1982
UN General Assembly Resolution, 1982
http://www.hri.ca/uninfo/treaties/40.shtml
http://deoxy.org/wc/wc-nurem.htm
Ritual Abuse and Torture - A Legal
Quandary by Helen L. McGonigle, Attorney-at-Law
Information presented at the August, 2004 SMART conference.
http://members.aol.com/smartnews/hm04.htm
Stop Torture: Torture and the Law
Amnesty International
http://www.amnestyusa.org/stoptorture/law.html
Stop Torture: US and International Standards against Torture
Amnesty International
http://www.amnestyusa.org/stoptorture/us_international_standards.html
Summary of International and U.S. Law Prohibiting Torture
and Other Ill-treatment of Persons in Custody
Human Rights Watch report updated May 24, 2004
http://www.hrw.org/english/docs/2004/05/24/usint8614.htm
Tokyo Declaration of the World Medical Association, 1975
http://www.cirp.org/library/ethics/tokyo/
U.N. Body of Principles for the Protection of All Persons under Any Form
of Detention or Imprisonment, 1988
http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/instree/g3bpppdi.htm
U.N. Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or
Degrading
Treatment or Punishment, 1975
http://www.hrweb.org/legal/cat.html
U.N. International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 1976
http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/a_ccpr.htm
U.N. Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners
http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/h_comp34.htm
U. N. Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948
http://www.un.org/Overview/rights.html
U.S. Department of State Initial Report of the United States of America to
the UN Committee Against Torture, October 15, 1999
http://www.state.gov/www/global/human_rights/torture_index.html
U.S. Law Prohibits Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or
Degrading Treatment or Punishment
Human Rights First Report
http://www.humanrightsfirst.org/us_law/after_911/PDF/Torture.pdf
U.S. State Laws restrict use of
electronic and/or electromagnetic weapons
Maine - Chapter 264, H.P. 868 - L.D. 1271
http://janus.state.me.us/legis/ros/lom/lom122nd/7pub251%2D300/pub251%2D300%2D22.htm
Massachusetts - Chapter 170 of the Acts of 2004
http://www.mass.gov/legis/laws/seslaw04/sl040170.htm
Michigan - 2003-0256
http://www.michiganlegislature.org/mileg.asp?page=PublicActs
U.S. Reservations, declarations, and understandings, Convention Against
Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, Oct. 27,
1990
http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/usdocs/tortres.html
Validity of "Battered Woman Syndrome": in Criminal Cases
Involving Battered Women by Mary Ann Dutton, Ph.D.
Ms. Dutton is Professional Lecturer of
Law, National Law Center, George Washington University
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/ocpa/94Guides/Trials/Valid
VAWOR (Violence Against Women Online Resources)
"This site provides law, criminal justice, advocacy, and social service
professionals with up-to-date information on interventions to stop violence
against women."
http://www.vaw.umn.edu/index.asp
What is Battered Woman's Syndrome? by Lori S.
Rubenstein, Attorney-Mediator
Family Law Advisor
http://www.divorcenet.com/or/or-art02.html
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The Law and Hypnosis: United State Court of Appeals for
the Second Circuit Adopts Test for Post-Hypnotic Testimony: The Legal Test
and Aftermath by Helen L. McGonigle, Attorney at Law.
To obtain a copy
of the report, send request to Ms. McGonigle at PO Box 326, Brookfield, CT
06804-0326. Office phone: (203) 740-0074.
Memory, Trauma Treatment and the Law by Daniel Brown,
Ph.D., Alan W. Scheflin, J.D., LL.M., and D. Corydon Hammond, Ph.D., ABPH.
W. W. Norton & Co., 1998. Hardcover. ISBN 0393702545. 816
pp.
http://www.smith-lawfirm.com/McGonigle_review.htm
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