So you are under the assumption then that we have secret facilities where we have engaged in widescale vivisection of living humans, tested flamethrowers on human subjects, engaged in the systematic rape of women and subsequent murder of all babies that are born, intentionally subjected human beings to frostbite and subsequent amputation of limbs, and lobbed grenades at live test subjects who posed no immediate threat?
I don't think it's "naive" to not just assume that the US government has facilities where these things happen, no.
Those
specfic atrocities? Maybe not, we already have the data we extorted from the germans and japanese, so no need. Other than being naive, I'm not sure what would make you think our government isn't capable of just about any kind of atrocity though. Within
just the last generation:
1. Initiating war under a false flag ( for the purpose of war profiteering), then going in and destabilizing the entire region, indiscriminately killing civilians (you know, what we call
war crimes when
anyone else does it.)
2. Testing experimental drugs on soldiers while engaged in these illegal wars
3. Assassinating democratically elected leaders in smaller, weaker nations when they won't do what we say
4. Torturing prisoners of war and political prisoners, in violation of treaties we have signed.
5. Instituting a massive for profit penal system, where no attempt is made at rehabilitation, and mentally ill people are simply milled through the system over and over for $$$$$
6. Directly causing the housing/financial crisis, then using it as an opportunity to loot the treasury and give it to the financial industry, with zero fines or arrests, and no plan for repayment.
7. Drug trafficking to pay for off the books military operations, while domestically we enacted high minimum sentences for recreational drug use
8. A
legal bribery system, which influences literally every decision our politicians make, both on a domestic and international level
9. Massive deregulation and budgetary cuts that have crippled organizations in place to ensure our safety, like the fda.
Our government is really, really dirty. Everyone's government is. The idea that we would never torture, murder, commit genocide, etc because "we're Americans dammit" has no factual basis whatsoever. We will do anything and everything if there is a way to gain from it, and history supports that.
