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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
Today the former prisoner David hicks got some good news. The Australian Federal Police announced they would not seek the continuance of his control order. He has spoken publicly for the first time since his release from the bay. The video, I think, is on YouTube.
In it he says he is still recovering from the horrors of Guantanamo Bay, but is still too affected to talk about it yet. He says he will talk when he has further healed.
John Howard, may there be a special place for him in hell. You can also add Dick Cheney to that short list.
Today I heard that the Hamden report will be coming out. It should make compelling reading.
What a difference a change of government makes. I expect you will see the changes soon. for many it will be a breath of fresh air.
As for me I'm now half Aussie. I am very ashamed to be part of imperial America. I will retain my American citizenship simply because I don't want to be on 1000 watch lists.
It's a spotlight. The DoJ's cohorts will have to ask the hearse driver.
Let's hope same same melody as Jebbies daemonic music do blare.
Blogger, radio, TV, print medium: Each who spew rancid filth's, OY!
The Grim Reaper, traditionally, wields a sharp knife, its real myth.
Who drives the hearse to Hades has smoke dangles from the lips.
One privilege post croak: Smoke camel cig + humped camel tales.
GOPs are seen in disinfectant sunshine, 24-hr +1,000- eon puffs.
The punitive anti-cruel-war deity will see that they suck dry tails.
Gag, will hack dry heaves from lice-camel hair tale. Ugh.O worst.
'Um will stay gridlocked in GOP dessert dung piles. Ugh. O worse.
There was a legendary Theft Deity in past times. Folk were attune.
The response to a Hypocrite? Eventually prayerful lifestyle? Lie OY!
Sooner or later, a fierce, vicious, and a punitive Force pours wrath.
The anger is white blaze, and responds who? O mythological tale?
It's written in the archives of literature. It's real leviathan histories.
The day! And a merciless Nature Forces of punitiveness arrives OY!
Another great article from commondreams.org --- well worth a read.
-- heru-ur
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Thanks for the link, heru-ur, but alas! I'm one of many CommonDreams commenters who were unceremoniously and abruptly banned from the site the day after the election.
Craig Brown and his staff could learn a lot from Glenn about tolerance and sensitivity in managing blog comments. Since the purge was conducted without notice or explanation, some few of us persona non grata who maintain independent contact can only conclude that the purge targeted commenters who were, and remain, insufficiently enthusiastic about Obama.
I won't elaborate, since I know that netiquette frowns on using "good" comments sites to air grievances about other sites, but I hope Glenn will forgive me for calling attention to this deplorable instance of censorship. It's sad and irksome, and IMO deserve exposure.
However, Scahill is on Democracy Now even as we speak.
Funny, I was just going to ask all those questions of you.
Maybe "because they can" as in the response dear Swensker gave to Jkalos @ 1:14 is suffice? It is both parties, agree!
Psychotic dems+pub?
The Capital Hill Theft.
A whole Club of politicians decide to go on a spending spree for 'cheetos puffs' in pawn shop. He/she 'hits' a closet.
A Red Cross Mop Shop.
Oy, it's no supermarket.
They though it was tho.
O fancy tuxedo dressed,
'um chew on a dirty mops.
I'm no sure. Ugh. Amazing.
O "forthwith" eat pitchforks.
Which are built on the carcasses of those unfortunates who don't bend the knee or tow the line. Because Americans are exceptional people (kinda of like the Israelis who are dispossessing -- with a wink & a nod from us -- the non-jewish folks who are squatting on the land that 'gawd' promised the said Israelis). But I don't see much difference between the present POS that is running the show (the C in C for you folks who wear the uniform)with the past POS who running the show in the goodle days. Yikes, even Samuel Clements despised his government (which probably murdered more little brown folks then our present government has murdered) and was much more coherent and witty than our present pin-headed punits -- read his war prayer sometime. And that dirty little war in the Phillipines (to pacify and xtanize the pagans -- despite the fact most were RCs) was just as phony, and just as profitable, as our present dirty stinking war(s). And there are people out there, slack-jawed 'exceptionals' who believe our government. Hell, support them. Worship the flag. Hold the military in high esteem. I'm not surprised at the contempt that these yokels hold the about lives, freedoms, thoughts, beliefs of other people who aren't us. So, no. I don't have much faith in the future. And even less about the people we groundhogs keep giving badges and whistles aned guns and power to.
I won't elaborate, since I know that netiquette frowns on using "good" comments sites to air grievances about other sites, but I hope Glenn will forgive me for calling attention to this deplorable instance of censorship. It's sad and irksome, and IMO deserve exposure.
That's really odd, given that I always thought of that site as being much more Left than mainstream Democratic thought -- it's the last place I thought would be punishing insufficient Obama enthusiasm.
While I have you about that site, what do you know about it? It's really odd - they simply copy articles that don't belong to them and re-print them wholesale without asking for, let alone receiving, permission. I don't much care that they do that (though Salon might), but I've always been pretty amazed at how brazenly they do it. Any insights on why? Do they have some sort of ideological belief that refuses to recognize copyright ownership or something?
"Thor likes Pizza" wrote:
Waiting for the RW Screetchwads
Wonder how the RW screetchwads will present this ruling to their thirsty-for-truth nation?
- - Thor likes Pizza - - Thursday, November 20, 2008 11:48 AM
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At least one RW crackpot is screeching - - yet again - - that it's OUTRAGEOUS for JUDGES to do JUDGING.
Here's today reaction from Andrew C. McCarthy at NR.
(He's the guy who wrote an editorial in USA Today, three years ago, saying that of course nobody likes "torture" but really we should all support the Bush administration's use of "harsh interrogation methods".)
Interestingly, he starts out, in today's reaction, by mildly bashing the administration of which he's been a mindless follower.
But whatever the new cracks in his previous belief in presidential infallibility, he reverts to repeating his old complaint that military authority (including the C-in-C one supposes) should be absolute and should never be questioned by a mere judge.
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http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=OGMzNzBiNWZlNjlkZjNmNDc0Y2IzMjA4ZWMwZDg1N2I=
the corner [Andy McCarthy]
[...] It seems pretty clear that the Bush administration did not help matters here. Nearly seven years ago, the President publicly claimed the Algerians were planning a bomb attack on the U.S. embassy in Sarajevo. Last month, however, the Justice Department suddenly informed the Court that it was no longer relying on that information. We've seen this sort of thing happen too many times over the last seven years, and the effect can only be to reduce the confidence of the court and the public that the government is in command of the relevant facts and can be trusted to make thoughtful decisions.
All that said, though, Judge Leon concluded that “[t]o rest [combatant detention] on so thin a reed would be inconsistent with this court’s obligation.” That is puzzling. There is nothing in the training of a judge that makes him an expert in military matters. In our system of divided government, the question of who is an enemy combatant should be committed to the executive brach — specifically, to the military professionals waging the war. If there is any evidence supporting the military's wartime decision to detain (and, to reiterate, Judge Leon said there was sufficient evidence to hold these men for intelligence purposes), the court should defer to the military judgment.
In any event, the Times reports that Leon "directed that the five men be released 'forthwith' and urged the government not to appeal." The government is considering its appellate options. Meanwhile, one can only hope that either Algeria or some other country is willing to take these guys. Otherwise, we are in the same fix presented by the Uighur case (which will be argued on appeal next week): facing the prospect of jihadists being released into the United States.
- - Andy McCarthy
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Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
219 Democrats and one Republican join in favor of the legislation, which passed by a narrow margin
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
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