Rosie said pass it on, so here you go... (http://www.rosie.com)You didn't get mad when the Supreme Court stopped a legal recount and
appointed a President.
You didn't get mad when Cheney allowed Energy company officials to dictate
energy policy.
You didn't get mad when a covert CIA operative got outed.
You didn't get mad when the Patriot Act got passed.
You didn't get mad when we illegally invaded a country that posed no threat to us.
You didn't get mad when we spent over 600 billion(and counting) on said illegal war.
You didn't get mad when over 10 billion dollars just disappeared in Iraq.
You didn't get mad when you found out we were torturing people.
You didn't get mad when the government was illegally wiretapping Americans.
You didn't get mad when we didn't catch Bin Laden.
You didn't get mad when you saw the horrible conditions at Walter Reed.
You didn't get mad when we let a major US city, New Orleans, drown.
You didn't get mad when we gave a 900 billion tax break to the rich.
You didn't get mad when the deficit hit the trillion dollar mark.
You finally got mad when the government decided that people in America deserved the right to see a doctor if they are sick. Yes, illegal wars, lies, corruption, torture, stealing your tax dollars to make the rich richer, are all okay with you, but helping other Americans...oh hell no.
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
We had eight years of Bush and Cheney, Now you get mad!?
Thursday, May 28, 2009
Abu Ghraib abuse photos 'show rape' - Telegraph
By Duncan Gardham, Security Correspondent and Paul Cruickshank
Last Updated: 8:21AM BST 28 May 2009
At least one picture shows an American soldier apparently raping a female prisoner while another is said to show a male translator raping a male detainee.
Further photographs are said to depict sexual assaults on prisoners with objects including a truncheon, wire and a phosphorescent tube.
Another apparently shows a female prisoner having her clothing forcibly removed to expose her breasts.
Detail of the content emerged from Major General Antonio Taguba, the former army officer who conducted an inquiry into the Abu Ghraib jail in Iraq.
Allegations of rape and abuse were included in his 2004 report but the fact there were photographs was never revealed. He has now confirmed their existence in an interview with the Daily Telegraph.
The graphic nature of some of the images may explain the US President’s attempts to block the release of an estimated 2,000 photographs from prisons in Iraq and Afghanistan despite an earlier promise to allow them to be published.
Maj Gen Taguba, who retired in January 2007, said he supported the President’s decision, adding: “These pictures show torture, abuse, rape and every indecency.
“I am not sure what purpose their release would serve other than a legal one and the consequence would be to imperil our troops, the only protectors of our foreign policy, when we most need them, and British troops who are trying to build security in Afghanistan.
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Are you ready for Abu Ghraib, Act II?
Five years ago, people around the world were sickened by photographs that surfaced showing U.S. troops abusing Iraqi inmates at Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad. But now a new batch of photographs, perhaps hundreds of images, of prisoners being abused is about to be made public.
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O’Reilly uses Nazi propaganda to defend torture
Keith Olbermann dismantles Bill O’Reilly’s use of false claims from a Nazi war criminal to accuse President Obama of lying about Winston Churchill’s position on torture.
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Cheney wants to Testify about Torture? Let HIM!
Former Vice President Dick Cheney is desperate to "Set the Record Straight" now that various classified memos on torture have been released - and might even Testify before Congress. I think Congress should say - "Bring IT!!!"
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Torture: It Was Never Just “Sleep Deprivation”
What this L.A. Times story demonstrates is the proclivity of the CIA and other government torturing agencies to twist the meaning of words, and stuff into the nomenclature of one "technique" or procedures a veritable cornucopia of different torture methods. In this "enhanced interrogation" version of sleep deprivation, forced sleep deficit was...
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Saturday, April 25, 2009
What the fuck is wrong with America?
Written By Word Of The Day on April 24th, 2009
What kind of fucking country do you live in where you have to debate whether torturing someone is a crime? What kind of country do you live in when you can spend 3 years prosecuting the President for a consensual sexual act but won’t prosecute a President for authorizing illegal wiretaps and torturing people? What kind of country do you live in where the supposed ’spiritual’ and ‘religious’ leaders think it’s OK to torture non-Christians? What kind of country do you live in where you can’t even use the word ‘torture’ but have to say ‘interrogation techniques’? What kind of country do you live in when their Nuremberg defense (’We were just following orders’) becomes the mantra for not holding war criminals accountable for their actions? What kind of country do you live in where a major candidate in a Presidential primary openly advocates for doubling the size of America’s illegal detention centers and increasing the use of torture?
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Friday, March 13, 2009
House conservatives seek Patriot Act extension
More than a dozen of the GOP’s most conservative members on Thursday introduced a bill to reauthorize controversial Patriot Act provisions (“roving” wiretaps, access to library patron information and expanding FISA) set to expire later this year.
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Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Release of Memos Fuels Push for Inquiry Into Bush’s Terror-Fighting Policies - NYTimes.com
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Detainee Was Tortured, a Bush Official Confirms
The top Bush administration official in charge of deciding whether to bring Guantanamo detainees to trial, Susan Crawford, concluded that the U.S. military tortured a Saudi national who allegedly planned to participate in the Sept. 11 attacks. "His (Mohammed al-Qahtani) treatment met the legal definition of torture," said Crawford.
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Sunday, January 11, 2009
Ex-gitmo guard saw torture, calls co-workers psychotic
As the Guantanamo Bay detention center reached its seventh birthday this week, a U.S. veteran said he witnessed cell beatings, forced head shavings and interrogation tactics--including sleep deprivation, floor shackles and loud music--while guarding detainees there.
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Monday, August 18, 2008
"Cross in the Dirt" story stolen from Solzhenitsyn (updated)
"I was watching the forum last night and decided that since I hadn't eaten yet, I would try to listen to John McCain speak. I was doing OK with the "my friends" and the evil chuckle when I heard him talk about his POW story of the cross in the dirt. That was when I couldn't take it anymore.
"UPDATE: This story was actually excerpted from "The Gulag Archipelago" by Alexander Solzhenitsyn, which was released in the US in 1973.
"UPDATE X2: It seems that McCain is a bit of a Solzhenitsyn fan, as evidenced in his article in the NY Sun here. Thanks to Turing for the link.
"UPDATE X3: May other great Kossacks have expanded on my diary. Check out their great diaries.
"TomP: Cross in the Dirt, a recap of what we know
"Calouste: No "cross in the sand" for McCain in 1973
"Throwing Stones: McCain lies, contradicts himself on Cross story"
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Tuesday, May 20, 2008
W. House ignored FBI concerns on prisoner abuse -probe | Reuters
Top Bush administration security officials ignored FBI concerns over abusive treatment of terrorism suspects, which one agent called "borderline torture," a four-year Justice Department probe found.
The FBI, alarmed by interrogation techniques such as the use of snarling dogs, sexual provocation and forced nudity, clashed with the Defense Department and CIA over their use, said the 370-page report, released on Tuesday by the Justice Department's inspector general.
Congress in 2005 banned the inhumane treatment of prisoners, and the CIA says it has not used "waterboarding," a form of simulated drowning, in five years. But Bush in March vetoed legislation that would ban the CIA from using waterboarding and other abusive techniques.
The new report quotes an FBI agent as objecting that the CIA's interrogation of suspected senior al Qaeda commander Abu Zubaydah was "borderline torture," and said at one point an agent helped care for him in the hospital "even to the point of cleaning him up after bowel movements."
Specific interrogation techniques for Abu Zubaydah were blacked out in the report as classified information, but the CIA has acknowledged he was one of three suspects subjected to waterboarding.
Monday, November 05, 2007
DEAD CERTAIN: The Presidency of George W. Bush
The use of torture and cruel treatment has actually hurt American national security. It has aroused outrage around the world, alarming friends and allies, depriving the United States of its reputation as a country that does not resort to inhumanity.
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Friday, November 02, 2007
Why Won't The Candidates Endorse Freedom In America?
When asked to renounce the following if elected: torture; signing statements; detentions of US citizens as enemy combatants; illegal spying on American citizens; executive privilege as a shield against oversight; prosecuting journalists; using secret evidence; suspending habeas corpus; etc, ONLY ONE candidate agreed to sign. Is it any surprise?
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Bush to Democrats: "We are at war!"
More Proof that Mr. Bush is crazy and leading the country in the wrong direction.
President Bush compared Congress' Democratic leaders Thursday with people who ignored the rise of Lenin and Hitler early in the last century, saying "the world paid a terrible price" then and risks similar consequences for inaction today.
"History teaches us that underestimating the words of evil, ambitious men is a terrible mistake," Bush said. The problem is that he sees himself on the side of good. Unfortunately, as a guy who believes torture is fine, he is more like Lenin and Hitler.
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Friday, October 19, 2007
No White House apology planned for Canadian Mistakenly Deported, Tortured
U.S. lawmakers on Thursday offered apologies to a Canadian citizen who was deported by U.S. counterterrorism officials to Syria, where he says he was imprisoned and tortured. An administration official said she was not aware of any plans for the White House to issue an apology to Arar.
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Sunday, September 23, 2007
Harper's magazine suggests a National Strike Nov. 6 to force impeachment!
...what day more fitting for a strike than the first Tuesday of November, the Feast of the Hanging Chads? What other day on the national calendar cries so loudly for rededication?
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