Pentagon General Counsel Resigns
February 27, 2008 at 10:00 am | In Domestic Violence, Feminism, Law, Politics, Spirit, Stuff & Rants | Leave a Comment
Fact: Evil does exist, and in high places. There’s no other conclusion. Evil evil men.
His infamous memos and public statements advocated torture and the denial of habeas corpus for detainees. In a 2002 memo, he recommended techniques such as “twenty-hour interrogations, isolation for up to thirty days, deprivation of light and auditory stimuli…and stress positions such as the proposed standing for four hours.” In response to this last technique, Haynes’s boss at the time, then-Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, wrote in the memo’s margins, “I stand 8-10 hours a day. Why is standing limited to 4 hours.” Haynes also wanted to keep death threats, waterboarding and exposure to extreme temperatures on the table as interrogation methods. He stated, “Fact: The detainees currently held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, are not protected by the Geneva Conventions.”
Source: Pentagon General Counsel Resigns
Tomgram: Karen Greenberg, Barbarism Lite
February 22, 2008 at 8:58 pm | In Domestic Violence, Law, Politics, Spirit | Leave a Comment
Someday, our children may travel to Washington and somewhere near the Smithsonian and the Holocaust Museum, perhaps they, like the Czechs and other Europeans, will be able to visit their own official torture museum. There, a step from the Potomac River, they will be able to view strange instruments for inflicting pain and perhaps even watch horrifying videos of torture happening. And they may wonder how we ever faltered so miserably when it came to a war that was supposed to be on terror, but ended up adopting the worst traditions of terror in the Age of Barbarism Lite.
Jennifer Baumgardner | A Woman in the White House
February 19, 2008 at 9:18 pm | In Domestic Violence, Feminism, Law, Politics, Spirit, Stuff & Rants, birth | Leave a Comment
A bitter reality is beginning to sink in for me, a daughter of the Second Wave. Here we are: several generations raised with the mantra that a “woman” could be president, and learning that we don’t mean any woman who actually exists.
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