Andymatic

Category: 12. Obsession with Crime and Punishment

  • Chris Wallace Fellates Cheney

    Now look: there are softball interviews; and then there are interviews like this. It cannot be described as journalism in any fashion. Even as propaganda, which is its point, it doesn’t work – because it’s far too cloying and supportive of Cheney to be convincing to anyone outside the true-believers. When it comes to Cheney, […]

  • Texas Admits Executing Innocent Man

    Both of them were killed because of an accidental fire. Amber and her two sisters died in the blaze. Cameron was wrongfully executed by the state of Texas for setting it. Today, Texas took the first big step in admitting it murdered an innocent man in its death chamber. And the implications are huge. via […]

  • America Has a Mean Streak

    The point is that, when on “normal”, the needle of the US barometer is not only quite a way to the political right of where it would be in Europe, but showing a very different atmospheric level, too. For there is a mean and merciless streak in mainstream US attitudes, which tolerates much more in […]

  • CIA Used Power Drill in Mock Execution

    [S]uspected USS Cole bomber Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, was threatened with a gun and a power drill during the course of CIA interrogation. According to the sources, who like others quoted in this article asked not to be named while discussing sensitive information, Nashiri’s interrogators brandished the gun in an effort to convince him that he […]

  • How the Prison Guard Union Controls California Prisons

    In three decades, the California Correctional Peace Officers Association has become one of the most powerful political forces in California. The union has contributed millions of dollars to support “three strikes” and other laws that lengthen sentences and increase parole sanctions. It donated $1 million to Wilson after he backed the three strikes law. And […]

  • Folsom Embodies California's Prison Blues

    Experts agree that the problem started when Californians voted for a series of get-tough-on-crime laws in the 1980s. The state’s prison population exploded immediately. It jumped from 20,000 inmates, where it had held steady throughout the 1960s, 1970s and early 1980s. Today there are 167,000 inmates in the system. via NPR.

  • UK's Orwell Nightmare

    The authorities made more than 500,000 requests for confidential communications data last year, equivalent to spying on one in every 78 adults, leading to claims that Britain had “sleepwalked into a surveillance society”. via A request to snoop on public every 60 seconds – Telegraph.

  • Guantanamo Detainees Have No Case Files

    From WaPo via Donklephant:   President Obama’s plans to expeditiously determine the fates of about 245 terrorism suspects held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and quickly close the military prison there were set back last week when incoming legal and national security officials — barred until the inauguration from examining classified material on the detainees — discovered […]

  • No More Bill Kristol at New York Times

    The shill’s been killed: This is William Kristol’s last column. [FWill Obama Save Liberalism?

  • Iraq Veterans Trampled by Horse While Protesting War

     IVAW members arrested while attempting to present questions to Obama and McCain “Neither of the candidates have shown real support for soldiers and veterans. We came here to try and get serious questions answered, questions that we as veterans of the Iraq war, have a right to ask, but instead we were arrested. We will […]