Archive for the 'torture' Category
 |
 |
Brief fox news rant 3/23 - March 23rd, 2009
|
 |
|
I’m taking care of a sick relative whose mother blares fox news on the TV all day, every day. As a result I have the privilege of listening to Hannity, O’Reilly and Beck every day now. There’s no escaping it; I hear the angry heads news network when I’m trying to work, trying to sleep, trying to read. Some days I can take it, other days I just want to scream back at the TV.
Tonight’s “headline” was “Is Obama in over his head?” Does he know what he’s doing? Isn’t he too inexperienced to handle this job?
Their first guest to answer the question was Newt Gingrich.
How is this a fucking news story? It’s a hit job no different than the attack ads during the campaign. Bush couldn’t even speak english, and yet it was not headline news anywhere that he was in over his head.
I *hate* how they continue to call their network fair and balanced, as if to mock us. They’ve used plenty of unfair editing tactics and just plain shouting to silence progressive guests, but it seems like they’re not even trying anymore. Your first expert on this non-news story is former speaker of the house and leader of the republican party? How many times do you have Pelosi on? Or other democratic house leaders? Hoyer? Gephardt?
You can expect these rants to continue as I continue to have to endure this loud bullshit.
|
|
|
 |
|
 |
 |
|
|
US accused of holding terror suspects on prison ships - June 2nd, 2008
|
|
|
This article makes me furious. From the Guardian:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jun/02/usa.humanrights
From the article:
“By its own admission, the US government is currently detaining at least 26,000 people without trial in secret prisons, and information suggests up to 80,000 have been ‘through the system’ since 2001.”
EIGHTY THOUSAND people? Where is the outrage? How are we, the freeest country in the world, allowing our government to “disappear” and torture people without trial? Eighty thousand? How can anyone possibly argue that eighty thousand people are guilty without trial and deserve this kind of treatment?
- “In Germany, they came first for the Communists, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist;
- And then they came for the trade unionists, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist;
- And then they came for the Jews, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew;
- And then . . . they came for me . . . And by that time there was no one left to speak up.”
-
- - Martin Niemöller
80,000 people, guys. 80,000.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Supreme Court rejects Guantanamo appeals - April 2nd, 2007
|
|
|
Oh great, the supreme court just rejected two appeals by inmates who sought to challenge their detentions in federal court. Many detainees are in their sixth year of imprisonment at Guantanamo. Some of them were imprisoned as young as 16. Can you imagine living in this cell for 6 years without a charge? These people have been locked up and forgotten about.
I’m sick of hearing the line from wingnuts that terrorists deserve to be locked up there without a trial. Who defines terrorists? Have you looked at the list of detainees released? The few people that have been released had nothing to do with terrorism. Like Said Abaseen, a taxi driver from Afghanistan. He has no idea why he was detained. Do you think it’s a soldier’s job to be the court of law for a person they captured off the street? No, that’s what we have a court of law for.
The detainees are being abused at Guantanamo as well. What would you do if you were locked up for six years without a charge? Several detainees have tried committing suicide or going on a hunger strike. Those that went on a hunger strike were force fed through nasal feeding tubes. It was found that the nasal feeding tubes were administered without anesthetic, and instead of being left there, they were removed and re-administered every day as a form of torture.
How much longer are we going to allow this to happen in our name? Six years without a charge? You’ve got to be kidding me.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
