Letters to the Editor
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Same thing happened to me
I mistakenly asked for some milk for my cereal. Started a whole chain of events. cdr42
Boy does that bring back an unpleasant memory. I too served time in a minimum security jail for a "youthful indiscretion". I too asked for some milk for my cereal because what was provided had been used up. Only to be pulled out of the unit and banged against the wall by a fucking asshole guard. Screamed at and threatened with being sent to solitary confinement, because I had the temerity to ask for some milk. In jails there are generally two types of guards. One are decent people that view prisoners with compassion and treat them with respect. The others are pricks that get off on the power of being in control of other people. Considering I served time in what was considered a "good jail", I can't imagine what might of happened if I had been in a bad one.
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Thanks for people like you...
a bit of truth slices through the slime since those sons-a-bitches don't control the internet.
Great work Glen.
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@conservativeslayer
I hear ya. The point I guess we're both making is that people just don't undrstand that it's another world, even in min sec. I can just imagine how bad it get when then the guards are jacked up on macho rhetoric that these bozo pansy journalists feed into the eqauation. That's not America the way I always understood the ideal, not the flag I pledged to. WE are above that. WE don't cheer it on. Disgusting.
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johnqeniac
On the face of it, this statement appears irrelevant to the discussion - it's simply a speculation that he made a year ago (which many others were also wishfully making) that arguably has turned out, with substantial caveats, to be partially vindicated.
Glenn, do you have the reference to his original 'report', and to your reply in which he says you ridiculed him? I would like to the context of his claims and your response. Also, do you think there is any vindication for him with respect to that particular topic?
In his "Actual Journalism" post, Klein misrepresented what I wrote (and he didn't link to it). I didn't criticize him for claiming that things were better in the Anbar Province (even though Klein acted as though that was some big scoop, everyone had been saying that then). I criticized him for his methods in reporting that (i.e. granting anonymity to military officials to say what the Bush administration itself was saying and then uncritically believing it).
Here's the original post I wrote (I'm pretty sure I wrote a subsequent reply to Kevin Drum and a couple others who responded to my post -- including the Colubmia Journalism Review -- making clear what my criticism was and what it wasn't, but I can't find that now):
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2007/05/24/klein/index.html
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That's just scary
'Charges against him were dismissed "without prejudice", but the Pentagon claims the right to reinstate them at any time and to keep holding him at Guantánamo.'
And who will challenge that assertion?
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@Arne
They will have, and create a host of problems. Nothing corrupts an Army like a long occupation.
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Phillipe Sands on Bill Moyers last week - Sands' recent book, Torture Team
The "fish rots from the head down" or all the bad apples were at the top of the barrel in this case.
PHILIPPE SANDS:... I was told it's probably the first time that a hearing has been held on a book that hasn't even published... The next hearing is slated in for the 26th of June.
Bill Moyers... In this new book — Torture Team — the international lawyer Philippe Sands, a long time friend of America, describes what happened when the White House abandoned the policy of Abraham Lincoln, who in the middle of the Civil War told his generals that "military necessity does not admit of cruelty... nor of torture to extort confessions."
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Philippe Sands is known in top legal circles for his work on torture cases spawned by such infamous dictators as Chile's Pinochet and Liberia's Charles Taylor, and by genocide around the world. He's a counselor to the Queen of England, and director of the Center on International Courts and Tribunals in London, where he closely studied the British fight against terrorists of the IRA.
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/05092008/transcript2.html
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Full quote
PHILIPPE SANDS:Yes. What has happened is that-- this is part one, as it's described in the judiciary committee's-- guidance note. I was told it's probably the first time that a hearing has been held on a book that hasn't even published, which I'm gain some pleasure on. The next hearing is slated in for the 26th of June. I think John Yoo is going to appear at that hearing. He has agreed, if I understand it, to come voluntary. And Mr. Addington, they're hoping, will appear on the same day.
But they've also issued letters to Mr. Feith and Mr. Ashcroft, and in fact, all of the people that I write about. And thus far, they've all agreed to appear voluntary. So I think it's the beginning of a lengthier story that will allow the American people to form a view on what happened, and form a view then, on the vital next question, the consequence question, what should happen next.
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Veering off to a real jounralist and a tidbit of nooz:
Word has it that Charlie Savage is jumping the Boston Globe and hopping over to the NY Times. Hope he gets more stories and coverage there.
Also, did anyone pick up on the use of nurses and physicians as agents of committing human rights abuses on immigrant detainees that was a current in the Priest and Goldtein Careless Detention reportage? I'm trying to rack the agency authority, Congressional or Executive charge to DHS over detainee health and wellbeing, and I'm coming up with zero. Also having trouble finding the applicable laws.
But it doesn't appear that the state boards of nursing, medicine, etc have authority when these professionals are "federalized" whatever that means. And people are being chemically restrained and harmed against their will at the hands of nurses and physicians.
A new US Mengele corps?
My questions and confusion on the subject at the link at my name.