Filed under: Books, Bush Administration, Civil Rights, Guantanamo, Human Rights, Torture, Word-Smithing
International law,and the ICC is for everyone else.Particularly brown skinned others from impoverished and under developed states.
Because when the U.S violates basic human rights & commits war crimes…
Serious People understood — and still understand — that our leaders made complex and weighty decisions for our own Good and that terms like “lawbreaking” and “war crimes” and “prosecutions” have no place in respectable American political circles. Hence, our political leaders operate in a climate where they know they can do anything — anything at all, including flagrantly breaking our most serious laws — and they will be defended, or at least have their behavior mitigated, by a virtually unanimous political and media establishment.
Filed under: Bush Administration, Civil Rights, Guantanamo, Human Rights, U.S
We hear over and over that it is these basic concepts that makes U.S democracy so superior.
Please….
The fact of the matter is that the sitting President of the U.S aka the “commander guy”,can do anything he wants,when he wants.
And in those case where the U.S Attorney-General and the President might clash,the President will just appoint another Attorney-General until he gets the right candidate.
The right candidate being the one who will interpret the law with the Presidents wishes in mind.It’s that simple there is just no other grand or noble principle that guides such matters,other than in the minds of a few naive souls that is.
As long as the attorney general(appointed by the President) is on-side, the laws and procedures can and always will be interpreted in favor of the President.
The Guantanamo situation pretty much proves as much.
Nothing will change as long as Dubya remains president.And you can carve that in stone.
Until a new government & President are elected,but even then.Only if the next President choses to interpret the law in favor of basic civil rights as opposed to his executive powers .
Until such time the mockery of,”rule of law”& basic “civil rights” that is Guantanamo will continue.
Filed under: Bush Administration, Chuckleheads, Iran, Israel, Nuclear Non-Proliferation, U.S, Weapons of Mass Destruction
Despite the latest intelligence reassessment, which represents the consensus of 16 American spy agencies.
Dubya continue doing what he has pretty much been doing since first became the “commander guy”.
Ignore facts, Or to put more bluntly lying like a mother f*#ker
And as expected,Israel has also chosen to ignore the report.
Now that Iran’s assertions,that it does not have a nuclear weapons program has been confirmed.The time has come for Israel to open up it’s Nuclear weapons program for International inspection.
After all International agreement,protocols,& U.N resolutions should apply to all U.N members equally and without prejudices.How “anti-semitic” of me…
In My Body Politic, there are a series of imagined conversations with a disabled marine – a marine whose photograph I clipped from the newspaper and tacked to the wall beside my desk. This marine was wounded in Iraq and photographed in January of 2005 sitting on the sidelines of one of the inaugural balls that heralded the start of George Bush’s second term. Both of the marine’s legs have been amputated above the knee and he is sitting in a wheelchair with his pant legs carefully folded back and tucked under him.
I say to the photo, to this unknown marine: You will face discrimination at every turn. You won’t at first believe that this is happening in your own country….
Filed under: Afghanistan, Bush Administration, Canada, Civil Rights, Guantanamo, Human Rights, Law & Order, Omar Khadar, U.S
Canadian citizen Omar Khadar is the last person from a western country to be held in Guantanamo Bay.Khadar who is now 20 years old has been held now for 5 years.
Unlike Australia the U.K and other countries allied to the U.S , who have had citizens detained ,Canada has yet to request or put pressure on the U.S government to send Khadar home to Canada.
That Harper would allow a Canadian citizen to go before an American military tribunal without a word of concern for his human rights,and his rights as a Canadian citizen is unprecedented.
No other Western country did or would have allowed such a thing to happen.
Harper seems to have forgotten,that his first obligation as PM is to protect all Canadian citizens and to ensure that their rights as such,are protected and respected.
His fawning ass kissing admiration of the “Commander guy” must take second place.
