Andymatic

Category: 12. Obsession with Crime and Punishment

  • Boston Globe Reporter Charlie Savage Wins Pulitzer for Tracking Bush's Overreach

    Excerpts from the winning stories: President Bush has quietly claimed the authority to disobey more than 750 laws enacted since he took office, asserting that he has the power to set aside any statute passed by Congress when it conflicts with his interpretation of the Constitution. … The office of Vice President Dick Cheney routinely […]

  • US now detaining 18,000 prisoners in Iraq

    Blessed are the peacemakers: The United States currently holds some 18,000 detainees in two US-run Iraqi detention facilities, Camp Bucca and Camp Cropper, the Washington Post reported Sunday, citing US military sources. In the past month, the US has increased security in Baghdad, leading to an additional 1,000 arrests. The detainees are considered “enemy combatants”, […]

  • Orwell Reads the Finale of 1984

    Bouncing around YouTube on a Friday night:

  • Trailer for THX 1138

    George Lucas’s first film – with some of his most subversive imagery and amazing soud design – I found the overall pic a bit slow but the themes and visuals are worth it.

  • White House Leverages Missing Emails with Rove Testimony

    I’m supposed to be in bed right now but this is pissing me off: In a letter to Mr. Leahy and Representative John Conyers Jr., chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, Mr. Fielding, the White House counsel, said the administration was prepared to produce e-mail from the national committee, but only as part of a […]

  • Secret FBI Unit Worked with DC Cops to Interrogate War Protesters

    Back in 2002: On April 20, 2002, FBI agents in plain clothes targeted the protesters because of their black garments, apparently the definitive anarchist fashion choice. Then, the people were separated and asked about their political and religious views as well as the names of their friends and associates. Some of the interrogations were videotaped […]

  • Online Privacy Nightmare

    I have a Tivo. Tivo monitors my TV watching habits, what I rewind and what I skip. I pay for my Tivo with a credit card. The credit card company can collate all of my purchasing habits showing what I buy, what else I buy it with, where I buy it and when. My credit […]

  • Video: Arlen Specter Asks Alberto Gonzalez About Habeas Corpus

    Wanted to post the video for this as well:

  • Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez: Habeas Corpus Not in Constitution

    Don’t read this if you’re eating: Responding to questions from Sen. Arlen Specter at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Jan. 18, Gonzales argued that the Constitution doesn’t explicitly bestow habeas corpus rights; it merely says when the so-called Great Writ can be suspended. “There is no expressed grant of habeas in the Constitution; there’s […]

  • Proto-Fascism Makes Me Horny

    To celebrate the new year, I’m adding a collection of 14 new categories to this blog. The fourteen points of fascism first authored by Lauren Britt. Powerful and continuing expressions of nationalism. Disdain for the importance of human rights. Identification of enemies/scapegoats as a unifying cause. The supremacy of the military/avid militarism. Rampant sexism. A […]