Today 11 U.S. Senators condoned torture
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and 9 supported American values…
I would ask each of you to chasticize and otherwise hold those who can not longer claim any innocence to the apparent crimes against humanity perpertrated over the last 6 years:
– Feinstein
– Schumer
– Specter
– Hatch
–Grassley
– Kyl
– Sessions
– Graham
– Cornyn
– Brownback
– Coburn
And if they represent you, or you just would like to say thank you for standing up for our Constitution, give a shout out to:
– Leahy
– Biden
– Kennedy
– Kohl
– Feingold
– Durbin
– Cardin
– Whitehouse
And definitely start documenting the complicity, as we can only hope our generations Nurenberg Trials will happen after the 2008 elections.
My e-mail to Senator Feinstien on her vote on Judge Mukasey
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After your vote today to send Judge Mukasey’s nomination for Attorney General of these United States, I must ask you how you can reconcile his inability to make an obvious determination that is well held by those knowledgeable in interrogation and investigation gathering… that waterboarding is indeed torture. As I previously noted, on appearance it would seem that Judge Mukasey’s inability to “call it as it smells” is indicative of a deep-rooted and problematic condition within the current Administration and their seemingly un-Constitutional pursuits.
Your vote is hard to not construe as a de facto endorsement of torture and what seemingly would have been judged war crimes by the Nurembeurg Tribunals (and later by the International Criminal Court), and I would like to know how you, assuming that Judge Mukasey is confirmed as Attorney General, how you can ensure that the Justice Department will hold those who have committed torture and crimes against humanity will be held accountable. In that, given the last several years of “smoke and mirrors” by the Administration to the Legislative and Judicial Branches there does not seem to be any reasonable way to “hope” (pardon my again playing on the words of your October 26, 2007 press release) that any change will occur.
Having spent my formative years in the late 60s and 70s, I must ask are you just biding time for a future “Truth and Reconciliation Act” similar to what was done in South Africa? And personally having grown up in that time, I am fully aware and capable of singular acts of extreme aggression, your acts support a systematic erosion of our values and not that which one could attempt to justify and otherwise live with. I would point you to the media coverage of then President Bush’s reminiscence on the first gulf war; his harkening back to the Second World War, a commentary to the Iraqi soldier in the trenches “We are the good guys.” But with your vote today it is hard to reconcile you can feel that way.
I feel obligated, given my utter dismay at your vote, to point you to a poll of the entire U.S. by CNN:
Poll results: Waterboarding is torture (http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/11/06/waterboard.poll).
I would appreciate a response by email or letter on why you feel that you can send a nominee of any sort out of the Senate Judiciary Committee that cannot affirm what most Americans, who are realistically underinformed, realize is torture. In that, how do you feel based on a simple description of the practice, which appears to be supervised drowning while in restraints, cannot be torture? And how do feel that endorsing a nominee to be the top lawyer of these United States who had to resort to obfuscation in his hearings can be an improvement over the last Attorney General.
Thank you (yeah I cut the sig, but you can figure it out)
Why the Judiciary matters?
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Well if Senator Feinstein’s continues wholesale inclusion of noncentrist judicial nominees, and for that matter AG or similar continues, we would never expect to see this type of ruling:
Reuters: US judge: contractor can face Iraqi torture suit
WASHINGTON, Nov 6 - Iraqi torture victims and their relatives can proceed with a lawsuit against a defense contractor that provided interrogators to the U.S. military in Iraq…
The lawsuit was filed in 2004 on behalf of Iraqi nationals who say they or their relatives had been tortured or mistreated while detained by the U.S. military at Abu Ghraib and other prisons in Iraq.
U.S. District Judge James Robertson … ruled the lawsuit against CACI can go forward. He said CACI interrogators were subject to a dual chain of command involving company and military officials, with significant independent authority retained by CACI supervisors in Iraq.
The judge also said the interrogators had a requirement to report abuse not only up the military chain of command but also to CACI. CACI argued that it was acting on behalf of the military and cannot be held liable.
So, now we are left to wonder how long it will be before those who are now fully complicit in the torture *cough Senator Feinstien and Senator Schumer, cough sell-outs, cough* will find a way to ensure that the Justice Department is forced to dismiss or otherwise cover-up, obstruct, etc., this case and all the other torture that has been carried out1
1 By definition, if Judge Mukasey was not able overnight to say “well I haven’t been briefed on specific methods, but it is obvious that waterboarding in its classic sense is torture” is covering up for torture, toturers, and what we like to call the (mis)Administration’s crimes against humanity
Senator Feinstein sells out California (and the U.S.) yet again
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An excerpt from the e-mail I’d sent to the Senator’s office before her vote to confirm Judge Mukasey:
I find your October 26th statement flawed in many ways, the following being two examples:
“First and foremost, Michael Mukasey is not Alberto Gonzales” I would challenge you to state how that someone who cannot state that a well-known torture is indeed torture deserves to be the Attorney General of the Unite States. Judge Mukasey could have easily stated that he was not aware of specific practices and could not certify that interrogation methods used by the Unites States were torture; but stated that “waterboarding” as noted in it’s classic sense was indeed torture. I will not take the time to link to the plethora of backups that show that this is indeed factual.
“Bottom line: I hope that Judge Mukasey will fairly and even-handedly represent the American people, and direct the Department wherever the facts and the law lead, not where the White House dictates. “ I also hoped that the current Administration would successfully lead to a free Afghanistan that would not foster terrorist groups, not lead America into a war of aggression against a contained enemy (Irag), place the resources of the Country behind “No Child Left Behind” (a.k.a., every child left behind), not politicize the Justice Department, at infitinum…
However, if one thing is clear from the last six years it is that “hope” does not work. It is a time for strong action. The fact that President Bush has stated that Judge Mukasey will be AG or no one will SHOULD clearly indicate that the latter is the preferable alternative. As the Senior Senator from California, you have the power to lead our Nation back to the values that my grandparents and parents instilled in me in the Midwest and not the devolution of our nation into a regime that resembles what came out in Eastern Europe after the Second World War.
You can take it as a given that I will be spending a lot of time documenting the Senator’s sell-out of the majority of Californian’s. I should have known better than to think that after the Judge Southwick fiasco we could expect any support of civil liberties and judicial independance… yep, she’d better retire at the end of her current term otherwise it’s gonna get ugly.
Bush Surgeon General Nominee “I have never studied Nature or lived on a Farm”
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or as ABC News (and I know that in and of itself is stretch in and of itself these days) reports:
Homosexuality Isn’t Natural or Healthy
I guess he also was never at an urban school either, as I remember the two male dogs stuck together running around the playground… well before the parents moved us to the farm where I say that it was not at all uncommon to see males going at it all the time. Or the female pony pleasuring herself on a fallen tree limb, but that’s the whole “unnatural adult toy” rant that I’ll save for the next news of a BACF agency or legislative body restricting access to that which makes people happy.
Obviously this… hmm… person (and I use the term loosely) must be a strong believer in the creationist science (Fantasy). Yeah I can’t wait to see his take on the “controversy” surrounding how the male and female Kangaroo that left Noah’s Ark did indeed get to Australia once the Ark grounded (in what is now Turkey according the “Scholars”.
So write your Senators today if you desire to have a Faith Based Surgeon General. *thump thump thump*
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