Archive for the 'torture' Category

Obama: Maybe Not So Progressive After All, Part Two

I never knew that protecting torturers from their crimes was a progressive value.
In its first months in office, the Obama administration sought to protect Bush administration officials facing criminal investigation overseas for their involvement in establishing policies the that governed interrogations of detained terrorist suspects. A “confidential” April 17, 2009, cable sent from [...]

Read More..>>

It’s Been Dead for Some Time Now

Posted by Brendan on September 27th, 2010 filed in DemocRAT, anger, calling bullshit, civil rights, collapse, fascism, politics, torture

Federal law enforcement and national security officials are preparing to seek sweeping new regulations for the Internet, arguing that their ability to wiretap criminal and terrorism suspects is “going dark” as people increasingly communicate online instead of by telephone.
Essentially, officials want Congress to require all services that enable communications — including encrypted e-mail transmitters [...]

Read More..>>

This Makes Me Want to Vote for the Democrats

Posted by Brendan on September 9th, 2010 filed in DemocRAT, calling bullshit, elections, fascism, hypocrisy, politics, pure evil, torture

Five men who say the Bush administration sent them to other countries to be tortured had a chance to be the first ones to have torture claims heard in court. But because the Obama administration decided to adopt the Bush administration’s claim that hearing the case would divulge state secrets, the men’s lawsuit was tossed [...]

Read More..>>

Heckuva Job, George, Dick, Jay, John, Rummy…

NO FUCKING DOI:
The Bush administration insisted that “enhanced interrogation techniques” — torture — were necessary to extract information from prisoners and keep Americans safe from terrorist attacks. Never mind that it was immoral, did huge damage to this country’s global standing and produced little important intelligence. Now, as we had feared, it is also making [...]

Read More..>>

Wiki-Leaks

Posted by Brendan on July 26th, 2010 filed in terror, torture, war

But most of the assaults on civilians recorded here, do not appear to have been investigated. French troops “opened fire on a bus that came too close to convoy” near the village of Tangi Kalay outside Kabul on 2 October 2008, according to the logs. They wounded eight children who were in the bus.
Gonna be [...]

Read More..>>

Jennifer Hardy: Torture Princess

Posted by Brendan on February 22nd, 2010 filed in Republican perverts, politics, right wing dingalings, torture

The young woman pictured above is Jennifer Hardy, or as i’m calling her, “the Torture Princess”:
The Torture Memos will forever be known as the work of John Yoo, the former Office of Legal Counsel lawyer who took the lead in preparing them. But the internal Justice Department report on the memos, released Friday, reveals that [...]

Read More..>>

Shorter Obama: “I Support Torture”

Posted by Brendan on December 9th, 2009 filed in DemocRAT, Democratic Idiocy, Republican perverts, politics, right wing dingalings, torture

here’s some more of that “change” shit i keep hearing about:
The Obama administration has asked an appeals court to dismiss a lawsuit accusing former Bush administration attorney John Yoo of authorizing the torture of a terrorism suspect, saying federal law does not allow damage claims against lawyers who advise the president on national security issues.
Advice [...]

Read More..>>

Why Does the Inky Keep Publishing John Yoo the Torturer?

Posted by Brendan on November 22nd, 2009 filed in Philadelphia, calling bullshit, hypocrisy, lying republican filth, media, torture

John Yoo Doesn’t Want the 9/11 suspects tried in New York:
Ownership of the disastrous decision to try al-Qaeda leaders in New York City federal court is the one clear thing to emerge so far from the Obama administration.
The call was not made “on the whims or the desires of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed,” the mastermind of [...]

Read More..>>

Glenn Beck Believes old Wive’s Tale, Kills frog on Live TV

Posted by Brendan on September 24th, 2009 filed in calling bullshit, right wing dingalings, torture, wtf??, youtube

Glenn Beck is an idiot (but I repeat myself). Here, he proves himself to be a needlessly cruel and reckless idiot as well, throwing a live frog into a pot of boiling water to illustrate the old wives tale. Things don’t go as expected.

What is it with conservatives and cruelty to animals?
Personally, i’d like [...]

Read More..>>

John Yoo: Smarmy, Smug, Smack-worthy

See that smarmy, smug, grinning motherfucker in the photo above?
That’s John Yoo, torturer and law professor. And protestors want him fired:
Campus police arrested at least four people who refused to leave the university’s law school building.
The demonstrators said John Yoo should be dismissed, disbarred and prosecuted for war crimes for his work as a Bush [...]

Read More..>>
Become a StrangeBedfellow!

Bad Behavior has blocked 1 access attempts in the last 7 days.