AP Reports Children Held Abu Ghraib
Children held by the U.S. Army at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison included one boy who appeared to be only about 8 years old, the former commander of the prison told investigators, according to a transcript.
Read moreSociety
A general category for things related to our society and how we interact with one another.
Ghost In The Machine
Senators yesterday expressed dismay and outrage over the fact that no senior Pentagon officials have been held accountable in the rampant cases of abuse at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.
Read morePentagon Expands Rendition
A Feb. 5 memorandum from Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeldcounsels support for a plan to transfer hundreds of suspected terrorists from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to prisons in Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan and Yemen.
Read moreA lawyerly defense for outsourcing torture
Speaking to reporters at the Justice Department Monday, Gonzales defended the administration’s use of “extraordinary rendition,” the practice of sending detainees to foreign countries where they may fear — and then face — even harsher interrogation tactics than the United States might use.
Read moreCancer In America
Spreading like wildfire, a cancer is infecting this country, devouring the flesh of our society and threatening to turn what was once the greatest nation on Earth into a rotting corpse of political corruption, greed and abuse of power. That cancer is Bus$hCo.
Read moreNo less than Thomas Jefferson himself writes to Dr. Thomas Cooper in 1814, “Christianity neither is, nor ever was a part of common law.”Matthew 25:40
“In as much as ye have done it unto one of the least of these MY BRETHEREN, ye have done it unto me.”
Read moreWe're protected
Isn?t this just grand, the home of free speech, liberty, tea parties, redressing of grievances, and other inalienable rights (but, as I should point out, no rights for aliens), the greatest generation, Atomic Bombing, B-52?s, and today we?re scared sh*tless of bad words and tits.
Read moreTorture Is Us
The U.S. media is filled with heartwarming stories about the alleged global spread of Western-style democracy, but in much of the rest of the world?including particularly the Arab world?the image of America is that of a torturer.
Read moreStimulating Legislative Agendas
The Supreme Court has left intact a critical Alabama state law which bans the foulest form of evil in the modern world.
Read moreI Weep for America’s Lost Honor
I’ve written before about how I cannot believe that, in America, we are even having a discussion about the nuances of the legal issues surrounding torture. I am sickened and saddened that America’s values now allow this sort of thing. This is not about protecting America, its about a bunch of sick, arrogant aristocrats exercising their sadomasochistic urges under the guise of “protecting the homeland.”
Read moreI Weep for America's Lost Honor
I’ve written before about how I cannot believe that, in America, we are even having a discussion about the nuances of the legal issues surrounding torture. I am sickened and saddened that America’s values now allow this sort of thing. This is not about protecting America, its about a bunch of sick, arrogant aristocrats exercising their sadomasochistic urges under the guise of “protecting the homeland.”
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