Archive for the 'torture' Category
Jennifer Hardy: Torture Princess
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 [...]
Shorter Obama: “I Support 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 [...]
Why Does the Inky Keep Publishing John Yoo the Torturer?
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 [...]
Glenn Beck Believes old Wive’s Tale, Kills frog on Live TV
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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