Archive for the 'torture' Category
NPR Hypocrisy
NPR is, right now, going on and on and on about torture in Iranian prisons. It’s truly horrible.
This is, of course, the same NPR that refuses to call it torture when Americans do it.
Mote, beam, whatever.
Tormenting John Yoo
Via FDL:
THIS IS AWESOME.
In fact, it’s what every American of good-will SHOULD be doing: making it impossible for John Yoo, the torturer, to find any peace. He should be harassed at work, at home, in the classroom, and anywhere he shows his face. He needs to be routinely and publicly humiliated every day of [...]
NPR: Nice Polite Republicans
Glenn Greenwald nicely deconstructs NPR’s ombudsidiot:
Responding to what she calls “a slew of emails challenging NPR’s policy of using the words ‘harsh interrogation tactics’ or ‘enhanced interrogation techniques’ to describe the treatment of terrorism suspects under the Bush administration,” Shepard hauls out every trite and misleading bit of journalistic conventional wisdom to dismiss listeners’ [...]
Speaking of Paine
Via Greenwald, powerful commentary and video of Lakhdar Boumediene, held without justification or trial at Guantanamo for 8 years, where he was tortured:
Those who voted for the Military Commissions Act of 2006 — all GOP Senators (except Chafee) and Democrats Jay Rockefeller, Ken Salazar, Tom Carper, Mark Pryor, Tim Johnson, Bob Menendez, Frank Lautenberg, Ben [...]
Read More..>>Say NO to Torture Day
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Read More..>>John Yoo Writes a Opinion Piece
I found the original, unedited version of John Yoo’s op-ed at the American Enterprise’s blog. Click to enlarge.
Read More..>>Torture
I’m about a year late to the table, but here’s video of Hitchens getting waterboarded. Something to think about when Dick Cheney and his daughter make the rounds of TV telling you something ain’t what it clearly IS.
Read More..>>Dick “5 Deferments” Cheney Is a Putz
Honestly, what more is there to say?
Read More..>>Get the Hook!
Your fifteen minutes are up, mr. Cheney
I was busy at work yesterday, and didn’t get a chance to actually hear excerpts of Obama’s speech (which had some good points and some incredibly BAD points) until around 5:30 when I was stuck in the car on the expressway.
i also got a chance to hear excerpts of [...]
Protest John Yoo TODAY
via Young Philly Politics, a 5:00 PM protest against John Yoo and the Inquirer:
Today, the Philadelphia Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild will participate in a demonstration against the Philadelphia Inquirer’s recent decision to hire John Yoo as a monthly columnist. The demonstration’s purpose is not to limit John Yoo’s First [...]
