Andymatic

Category: 12. Obsession with Crime and Punishment

  • US Gov't Detaining 26,000 in Secret Prisons Without Trial

    “By its own admission, the US government is currently detaining at least 26,000 people without trial in secret prisons, and information suggests up to 80,000 have been ‘through the system’ since 2001. The US government must show a commitment to rights and basic humanity by immediately revealing who these people are, where they are, and […]

  • New York Times Blackout on Bush Authorizing Torture

    From The Seminal: It has now been nine days since reporters at ABC News told us of ‘dozens of top-secret talks and meetings” held in the White House by senior Bush Administration officials to discuss in fine detail the interrogation techniques to be used on so-called ‘high value al Qaeda suspects,” and it has been […]

  • Woman Imprisoned and Starved for Four Days in Arkansas Courthouse

    Terrible and awful whether it is a complete mistake or not: Adriana Torres-Flores, 38, arrested on charges of selling pirated CDs, had been ordered held by a judge because the Mexican immigrant is in the country illegally. Torres-Flores … used a shoe as a pillow to sleep in the holding cell, which had two benches, […]

  • Landmark Case Today: Center for Constitutional Right Argues Before SCOTUS Today

    Stream while you work. The Center for Constitutional Rights has eclipsed the ACLU in my eyes. CCR is always pushing the courts to limit the abuse of power of Mr. Bush (and don’t think Mr. Romney or Giuliani or Obama or Ms. Clinton won’t abuse this power as well). What may be one of the […]

  • Houston Police Department Trials Unmanned Drones

    Houston police test an unmanned aircraft at an event shrouded in secrecy, but Local 2 Investigates caught it all on tape.

  • Firefighters to Fight Terrorism Because:

    They don’t need warrants to enter homes. Yum! Firefighters in major cities are being trained to take on a new role as lookouts for terrorism, raising concerns of eroding their standing as American icons and infringing on people’s privacy. Unlike police, firefighters and emergency medical personnel don’t need warrants to access hundreds of thousands of […]

  • Thought Crime Comes Home

    HR 1955 The U.S. House of Representatives recently passed HR 1955 titled the Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007. This bill is one of the most blatant attacks against the Constitution yet and actually defines thought crimes as homegrown terrorism. The Bill passed 404-6. This Bill criminalizes any act of, or promotion […]

  • Everything's Coming Up Torture

    We don’t torture to get at the truth – we torture to manufacture it.

  • Chicago Police Department Steeped in Blood

    Videotapes of angry officers savagely beating civilians and charges that a murder plot was hatched within an elite special operations unit have Chicago’s troubled police department reeling again. The biggest shock came Wednesday when federal prosecutors charged special operations officer Jerome Finnigan with planning the murder of another member of the unit to keep him […]

  • 38% of FBI Watch List is Inaccurate

    Just on CNN. The FBI’s terrorist watch list has 300,000 entries with 15,000 citizens. They get 100 calls a day and 65% of those are positive IDs. What they don’t say is what they are being identified for. The first audit of the system has been released – after how many years? What I wonder […]