The Human Face of Torture
If you're like me, the very idea of torture is abhorrent. But after so many years of hearing about it, a kind of numbness sets in and it becomes all about words - not people. I think its important that...
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The Power of One
(crossposted from Docudharma)Give Bush and Cheney a fair trial -- something they have not bothered with since they stole office.It's funny how the powers that be in the media and government are running...
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Why Bush and Cheney Should Get a Fair Trial
(cross-posted from Docudharma)Why should they get a fair trial? Why should there be a special prosecutor who investigates thoroughly the torture of human beings that has been going on in our name?One...
View ArticleA Blow to US Exceptionalism
If you wish to repost this essay you can download a .txt file of the html here (right click and save). Permission granted.One of the big changes in my thinking over the last couple of years has been to...
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269 War Crimes!
If you wish to repost this essay you can download a .txt file of the html here (right click and save). Permission granted.Political scientist Michael Haas has just published a book titled George W....
View ArticleI Disagree
If you wish to repost this essay you can download a .txt file of the html here (right click and save). Permission granted.I read Answering the Past by mcjoan today, where she quotes Digby on the...
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Moving Forward
If you wish to repost this essay you can download a .txt file of the html here (right click and save). Permission granted.On January 1, 2009, a Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) police officer shot and...
View ArticleMoving Forward? Here Are The Rules.
Crossposted from Docudharma. If you wish to repost this essay you can download a .txt file of the html here (right click and save). Permission granted.And in the naked light I saw Ten thousand people,...
View ArticleMartians Demand Special Prosecutor For Bush War Crimes
Martians are smart people too, but they fart a lot it seems, and it's given them away after hiding for eons.Yesterday NASA scientists in Live Blogging The Mars Methane Mystery: Aliens At Last?,...
View ArticleTorturing His Supporters
Hat tip to Armando this morning, for: AP: Obama Team Debating Violating UN Convention On TortureThe other day, the AP reported:President-elect Barack Obama is preparing to prohibit the use of...
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Obama's Best Move So Far? Marty Lederman Joins OLC
Hat tip to Big Tent Democrat at Talkleft Monday evening: Martin "Marty" S. LedermanPhoto: Georgetown LawLederman Joining Obama Administration:
View ArticleRumsfeld's Revenge: Army Field Manual to Allow Torture
Originally published at AlterNet. To repost this essay you can download a .txt file of the html here (right click and save). Permission granted.A January 17 New York Times editorial noted that Attorney...
View ArticleOur Noble Professions
I've been working on the project Petition for a Special Prosecutor which for me has entailed writing a lot about justice, the intersection of justice and politics and justice and the practice of law.Of...
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Who Is This New Attorney General, Eric Holder?
Eric Holder, Jr.Photo: George Washington UniversityBarack Obama announced on December 1, 2008 his nomination of Eric H. Holder, Jr. to serve as Attorney General, to take over the running of The...
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BREAKING: Obama OK's ICC Arrests And War Crimes Prosecution
No, it isn't what the title sounds like, and it's dangerous to read things into it that may not be there, but what Obama did do on Thursday, February 05, 2009, according to a report in The Washington...
View ArticleNot Revenge, Senator Leahy -- Love
Well Saturday is Valentine's Day, so maybe this is appropriate -- a Valentine to those revolutionaries who gave no quarter to tyranny.In a comment to his diary, Senator Patrick Leahy described his view...
View Article"One of the most frightening days of my life"
(crossposted from Docudharma)(h/t to parryander for the link to The Center for Victims of Torture from buhdydharma's post, "What Do You Know About Torture? Updated").Back in June of 2007, Dave Johnson,...
View Article"I Got Hit by a Swinging Pendulum"
I've been reading some of the arguments over whether or not we should, as citizens, pressure the Obama Administration and, specifically, Attorney General Eric Holder, to appoint a Special Prosecutor...
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