Comments on: More News That’s Not News

By: Batocchio

Batocchio — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 19:22:09 +0000

I wrote about this a couple of years back, too. The WaPo piece is useful for reiterating and confirming the story, and bringing it back to prominence – although the Beltway crowd typically ignores anything that might obligate them to hold someone accountable. Well, at least if it’s war crimes and not a blow job.

I’ve noticed in covering torture and human rights abuses over the past few years that liberal bloggers tend to link and discuss major articles, while most rightwing bloggers ignore them altogether. Major pieces about torture not working, about how it elicits false confessions, about how it’s clearly illegal, about America’s prosecution of war crimes – they just don’t exist. When they acknowledged them at all, they normally try to discredit the source somehow, no matter how unimpeachable (former SERE instructor Malcolm Nance explaining why “Waterboarding is Torture… Period” is a prime example). We need to keep pressing for action on this.

By: Swami

Swami — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 23:13:45 +0000

But obviously this is just the Post once again beating the drum for show trials about the (entirely legal and ethical) interrogation of terrorists.

It’s just like the Spanish inquisition..where the accusation would carry the conviction within it, and it wasn’t like they were torturing a human being to confess they’re heresies…they were torturing a heretic ( which was legal and ethical). Therefore if you’re ever going to torture anybody — label them a terrorist or heretic first… and everything will work out in making sense.

By: c u n d gulag

c u n d gulag — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 22:16:08 +0000

Biden’s daughter caught snorting coke!
Stop the presses!!!
Did Joe snort with her?
Did his wife?
Or did he just supply it?
Maybe it was his son, home on leave from Iraq, who brought it to the US.
Or, did Michelle grow the leaves in a secret organic garden in Illinois?
Ari say’s we need to torture them to find out! Start with Abu Zabu, or whatever the sand-monkey’s name is…

God, I’m sick of this stupid f@$#ing country!

By: Dave S

Dave S — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 19:55:09 +0000

It really is too bad that the terrorists Flight 77 hit the Pentagon instead of, say, 15th Street.

There it is. It’s not a proper rightie screed without a good “kill them” in it.