Screw that. Tie him down and tilt him back. It's time for the cloth and the water, 20 seconds at a time, oh, 83, 100, 150 times, he'll talk. Then put him in solitary, toss his Bible in the john when he pisses you off, slap him around some more.
Or better yet, rendition that Christian fundamentalist killer. Yeah, send him to Syria or Egypt, have them put him in some shithole prison where he gets electrodes on his nuts, on his nipples. Whip him with stripped cables. Keep him in a space the size of a grave, letting the rats and the cockroaches crawl all over him. Then send him back to Guantanamo so he can perhaps one day face a tribunal. Or preventive detention. Real indefinite-like, until the abortion battle is settled.
Yeah, you better keep him at Gitmo, because if he's put in Supermax on the mainland, there's no telling how many Christians he'll recruit. Isn't that what they do? Isn't that what their radical preachers tell 'em all they're supposed to do? Evangelize and get people to give up their souls to Jesus, just like this murderer?
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Some psychological doctors warned that the bloody war and sectarian killings will see children in Iraq growing up either deeply scarred or habituated to violence, which will severely damage their growth.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-06/01/content_11464567.htm
Gee, I hope they don't grow up hating Americans.
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Well at least they weren't gay - that would be a bad thing
The Army is investigating allegations that eight men in a Virginia National Guard company photographed and videotaped up to 21 women in the unit while the women showered at Fort Dix in Burlington County, officials said yesterday.
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Have you ever wondered why leftists are falling so far behind rightists in perpetrating acts of terror against the people of the United States?
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The FBI's definition of terrorism, per the Federal Code of Regulations (28 C.F.R. Section 0.85):
The unlawful use of force or violence against persons or property to intimidate or coerce a government, the civilian population, or any segment thereof, in furtherance of political or social objectives.
McClatchy discusses the suspect in custody for the slaying of Wichita abortion doctor George Tiller, a member of an anti-government group in the 1990s and a staunch opponent of abortion.
Let us review: an armed and dangerous man kills a doctor in broad daylight as he sat with his wife in church. Said armed and dangerous man has a record of committing acts designed to intimidate via fear: trespassing as well as verbal threats to doctors that he had "seen you now". Said armed and dangerous man is a known member of an anti-government group. Said armed and dangerous man has a police record that includes convictions for the criminal use of explosives. Someone posting under the name of said armed and dangerous man has repeatedly, on sites owned and/or sponsored by Operation Rescue, called for Dr. Tiller to be "stopped".
Like Andrew Sullivan, who posts the ghastly piece of Operation Rescue "Tiller the Killer" agitprop here (warning: it's as awful as you'd expect) in order to spotlight the deranged violence-inciting lengths to which OR goes, I abhor torture and do not support it.
But...as I understand it, I live in a country where enhanced interrogation techniques are believed to be extremely useful when it comes to finding out what terrorists are plotting next. Whom are they targeting? What are their plans? Here we have an actual, real-live terrorist in captivity--not just an alleged enemy combatant or whatever it is they're calling teenagers who got swept up in the Great Guantánamo Grabs these days. No, this guy wasn't on his way to a family wedding in rural Afghanistan--he'd already been caught, tried, and convicted on explosives charges, and now, in front of witnesses, he's shot dead a law-abiding American citizen while he was in church.
So. What does he know? Whom else are OR targeting? What are their plans? Ticking time bomb, ladies and gentlemen. Domestic terrorism is with us today, operating and "rescuing" right here on our own soil. Consistency, consistency, consistency.
And this from Griper Blade: We Were Warned: http://griperblade.blogspot.com/2009/06/we-were-warned.html
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How the banksters are killing (or killed) derivative regulation:
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Greg Palast is not the gentlest of critics. One of his signature moves it to connect dots most folks don't even see. In this essay, posted on BuzzFlash (and elswhere), he connects the Obama admin's mandated corporate seppuku for GM with the bail-outs of the banksters, and their glad, greedy, venal participation in the debacle. He describes what he sees in the plainest of language. Go and read the whole thing:
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TIME's Michael Scherer, who will be accompanying President Obama on his trip to Saudi Arabia Tuesday, reports that he has been warned by the U.S. State Department that, while in Saudi Arabia, he is not to report on anything except the President's visit lest he "risk arrest and detention by Saudi authorities."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/01/journalists-traveling-wit_n_209912.html
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Who would have believed that companies were illegally bringing in low-paid foreign IT workers?
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President Obama reversed his decision to release detainee abuse photos "after Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki warned that Iraq would erupt into violence and that Iraqis would demand that U.S. troops withdraw from Iraq a year earlier than planned." Maliki told Obama, "Baghdad will burn" if the photos are released, a U.S. military official told McClatchy.
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After Richard Clarke wrote an article in the WaPo that slammed Dick Cheney and Condoleezza Rice for missing the warning signs before 9/11 and for invoking what he called "the White House 9/11 trauma defense" — namely, the shock of 9/11 was so great as to justify all and any actions taken in the name of national defense, the Big Dick struck back and pinned the entire blame for 9/11 on Clarke:
CHENEY: You know, Dick Clarke. Dick Clarke, who was the head of the counterrorism program in the run-up to 9/11. He obviously missed it. The fact is that we did what we felt we had to do, and if I had to do it all over again, I would do exactly the same thing.
Here's a sample of some Clarke's emphatic e-mails warning the Bush administration of the al Qaeda threat throughout 2001:
"Bin Ladin Public Profile May Presage Attack" (May 3)
"Terrorist Groups Said Co-operating on US Hostage Plot" (May 23)
"Bin Ladin's Networks' Plans Advancing" (May 26)
"Bin Ladin Attacks May Be Imminent" (June 23)
"Bin Ladin and Associates Making Near-Term Threats" (June 25)
"Bin Ladin Planning High-Profile Attacks" (June 30)
"Planning for Bin Ladin Attacks Continues, Despite Delays" (July 2)
Plus, Time Magazine reported in 2002 that Clarke had an extensive plan to "roll back" al Qaeda - a plan that languished for months, ignored by senior Bush officials:
Clarke, using a Powerpoint presentation, outlined his thinking to Rice. … In fact, the heading on Slide 14 of the Powerpoint presentation reads, "Response to al Qaeda: Roll back." … The proposals Clarke developed in the winter of 2000-01 were not given another hearing by top decision makers until late April, and then spent another four months making their laborious way through the bureaucracy before they were readied for approval by President Bush.
The Big Dick needs to check his "recollections" before blaming former employees for the single most devestating attack in American history.
Also in the same speech:
"I don't believe we tortured," Cheney remarked, noting that the interrogation techniques approved by the Bush administration were vetted by White House lawyers. They didn't cross a "red line," he said.
And then he delivered the whopper: "There were three people who were water-boarded…. It was well-done."
And then, in an interview with Fox News' Greta van Susteren, Dick admitted that there is no evidence that Iraq was involved in the September 11th attacks!
"On the question of whether or not Iraq was involved in 9-11, there was never any evidence to prove that," he told the "On The Record" host in a joint interview with his daughter Liz. "There was "some reporting early on ... but that was never borne out," Cheney said. "George ... did say and did testify that there was an ongoing relationship between al-Qaeda and Iraq, but no proof that Iraq was involved in 9-11."
And appropriate follow-up question would have been, "Then why did we go to war?', but this was Fox.
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How sick is this?
A British video game development firm is in the process of creating a video game based on the U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo Bay. Entitled "Gitmo: Rendition," the game "depicts the prison in the near future — after its anticipated closing by the U.S. government — as a camp run by mercenaries who detain innocents sold off to their captors to serve as 'lab rats' in scientific experiments." The game's developer hired Moazzam Begg — a "British Muslim who was detained at the American military base at Guantanamo Bay for three years" before being released uncharged — as an adviser to help make the game "more realistic." Begg and seven other Britons detained by the U.S. recently sued the British government, "claiming U.K. authorities were complicit in their abductions, detention and interrogations."
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Gallup has the scoop - and it's shocking!
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