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 still think the U.S. is anything but a brutal and fascistic dictatorship to view this video, uploaded onto google video: "First They Came for Amalie."

video.google.com/videoplay