She sits in front of an upside down American flag--the sign of distress--and begins to tell her story. Tortured abroad, her mother murdered under FBI orders, stripped of her home and bank account--it doesn't get much more brutal than this.

I urge all who think that the U.S. is anything but a brutal and fascistic dictatorship to view this video, archived on Google video.

"First They Came for Amalie."

 http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6802933391946789188&q=First+they+came+for+Amalie