Torture - Blogs & Blog Posts

Italian Court Convicts 23 Americans by jobsanger on Nov 5, 2009It is against American law to kidnap and torture someone. That is, unless you work for the government. If you work for the government, then you can pretty well break the law and do some pretty awful things. This was especially true during the B...

My Ordinary Opinion on Extraordinary Rendition by Wonderland or Not on Nov 5, 2009Distracted by health care legislation, Afghanistan, unemployment and local and state elections, the recent decision on rendition has not received the attention it deserves. Extraordinary Rendition, not the well written story, or great piece of blogg...

Its So Beautiful by Monster Commute on Nov 3, 2009Please vote for MONSTER COMMUTE in the Webcomic Planet Readers Choice Awards. We’ve been nominated for: Best Art Best site design Author Congeniality Best New Comic C’mon Steam Crew! Help us get the word out with your vote! It’s...

President Signs Law Granting Defense Authority To Suppress Torture Photos by On The Hill on Oct 30, 2009President Obama Thursday signed into law a Homeland Security appropriations bill that contains a provision to grant the Department of Defense (DOD) the authority to continue suppressing photos of prisoner abuse.The amendment, which would allow the DO...

No Child Left Untortured: Chimpy’s “Values” In Schools by Reconstitution 2.0 on Oct 23, 2009I can’t say I’m terribly surprised. There is a cruel streak in humanity that only needs a little coaxing to come out, and the despicable acts Chimpy and his puppetmaster encouraged us to practice on detainees in our gulag has had the expe...

THE LAW HAS NO POWER OVER SOMEONE WHO DOES NOT CARE ABOUT HIS BODY by Reason, Commerce, Justice & Free Beer on Oct 16, 2009AN ESSAYIn many essays over the last year, I have paraphrased Martin Luther's argument that the law has power only over the body and property. See, e.g., On Governmental Authority (1523) at p. 23: "The temporal government has laws which extend no fu...

Big Week on the Innertubes for the GOP by Mock, Paper, Scissors on Oct 14, 2009Liz Cheney, The most important deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs in our nation’s history and maybe ever, not to be out done by the nominal head of the GOP, that regional party of old white men, Dy-No-Mike, has launche...