Andymatic

Category: 2. Disdain for the Recognition of Human Rights

  • Sterilization Mills in 1930s America

    Found an excerpt from War Against the Weak by Edwin Black (also put in the intro in my bookmarks): Western State Hospital in Staunton was not Virginia’s only sterilization mill. Others dotted the state’s map, including the Colony for Epileptics and the Feebleminded near Lynchburg, the nation’s largest facility of its kind and the state’s […]

  • 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 […]

  • The Other Martin Luther King, Jr

    Every year the media enshrines Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and always conveniently forgets the last several years of his life where he moved from race relations to class structure and poverty. In the early 1960s, when King focused his challenge on legalized racial discrimination in the South, most major media were his allies. But […]

  • FBI Reports ‘Baptizing' at Guantanamo

    interrogators wrapped a bearded prisoner’s head in duct tape “because he would not stop quoting the Koran,” … a civilian contractor laughed about the treatment and was eager to show it off. one interrogator bragged to an FBI agent that he had forced a prisoner to listen to “Satanic black metal music for hours,” then […]

  • 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 […]