Andymatic

Category: 2. Disdain for the Recognition of Human Rights

  • You'll Never Guess Who's Funding the Taliban – Nah You Will

    Virtually every major project includes a healthy cut for the insurgents. Call it protection money, call it extortion, or, as the Taliban themselves prefer to term it, “spoils of war,” the fact remains that international donors, primarily the United States, are to a large extent financing their own enemy. via Who is funding the Afghan […]

  • Blackwater Founder Implicated in Murder

    Erik Prince, may have murdered or facilitated the murder of individuals who were cooperating with federal authorities investigating the company. The former employee also alleges that Prince “views himself as a Christian crusader tasked with eliminating Muslims and the Islamic faith from the globe,” and that Prince’s companies “encouraged and rewarded the destruction of Iraqi […]

  • Kansas Attorney Showed Girl's Assault Photos to Parents

    A county attorney in Kansas violated a girl’s privacy by showing around photos of her sexual assault, the teen and her mother claim in Topeka Federal Court. The Anderson County Attorney refused to prosecute the assailant, but showed other parents photos of the sexual assault, and was suspended from practicing law for 6 months for […]

  • Helen Thomas: Obama Ignores Torture

    Many Americans heaved a sigh of relief last January when President Barack Obama banned the torture of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. It made the administration look more humane than the Bush-Cheney team. But that is not the whole story. via  Helen Thomas in Times Union

  • Shining Shithole on the Hill

    The good thing about being an INFJ is you see patterns in everything all the time but stay quiet and introverted enough that you pack down your suspicions labeled as paranoia. I don’t blog much lately because everything I’m feeling is so hopeless. I guess that is a bit extreme. Things locally are wonderful. Ron […]

  • 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 […]

  • Send Helen Thomas Flowers

    Helen Thomas nailed Dana Perino to the wall today: THOMAS: The President has said publicly several times, in two consecutive news conferences a few months ago, and you have said over and over again, we do not torture. Now he has admitted that he did sign off on torture, he did know about it. So […]

  • 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 […]

  • British Special Forces Soldier: "Government knew about extraordinary rendition"

    The UK’s role in assisting the US in kidnapping people gets worse: Last week, the Foreign Secretary David Miliband apologised to MPs in the Commons and admitted that two US rendition flights transporting terrorists suspects for questioning by the US had landed on UK soil. The former SAS soldier, Ben Griffins, claims this “pales into […]

  • Icelander Humiliated, Interrogated, Chained by Airport Security

    Eva Ósk Arnardóttir, Icelander was traveling through the States: There I was told that according to their records I had overstayed my visa by 3 weeks in 1995. … I looked at the official in disbelief and told him that I had in fact visited New York after the trip in 1995 without encountering any […]