"A republic, if you can keep it." Defeat MAGA
"A republic, if you can keep it." Defeat MAGA
Obama has authorized torture in the form of force feeding twice a day at Guantanamo. A judge has said it is a “painful, humiliating and degrading process” and wishes she has the power to stop it. She added the prisoners…
It wasn’t “enhanced interrogation” that Dubya ordered. It was torture. An independent, nonpartisan committee says ““it is indisputable that the United States engaged in the practice of torture” If Republican former congressman Asa Hutchinson, recently in the news for spearheading…
From Steve Hynd at Newshoggers Crowley had called Mannings detention, naked and in solitary confinement, “ridiculous and counterproductive and stupid”. Which it is. It’s also criminal. I will not be supporting Obama’s re-election bid. Ditto.
Wikileaks: US turned over captives to Iraqi torture squads. It’s just so much more moral and ethical when someone else attaches the electrodes to genitals. (As well as the extra bonus of all that plausible deniability.)
And apparently he’s a-ok with torture too, with policies no different from Bush and Ashcroft. For civil libertarians, President Obama now ranks with one of the worst presidents in our history and virtually indistinguishable in these cases from his predecessor.…