Category: 2. Disdain for the Recognition of Human Rights
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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 […]
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Steak Dinners and Chess Versus Waterboarding
WWII vets involved in interrogating captured Nazis are pissed off at the current conduct: Several of the veterans, all men in their 80s and 90s, denounced the controversial techniques. And when the time came for them to accept honors from the Army’s Freedom Team Salute, one veteran refused, citing his opposition to the war in […]
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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 […]
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In the Midst of Investigations, Blackwater Scores Another $92 Million
What’s a few dead Iraqis anyway? It’s not really a private militia until your face is under the boot. Last Thursday, Gen. Peter Pace told reporters, “Blackwater has been a contractor in the past with the department and could certainly be in the future.” The next day, that future was already here. The Pentagon had […]
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Woman Strangles to Death Trying to Escape Airport Detention
The daughter-in-law of one of New York’s top officials screamed, “I’m not a terrorist!” and fought with security officials in the Phoenix airport before being wrestled to the ground and handcuffed, witnesses told the Daily News yesterday. … Carol Anne Gotbaum, 45, of the upper West Side, died less than an hour later, after cops […]
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In Burma, the Bodies Pile Up, Tossed into Crematoria
History rhymes: In the three days since Burma’s military junta began its brutal crackdown on anti-government protests, the people who were briefly defiant and proud are again scared and paranoid. … “We heard that one of the victims turned out to be still alive when they started burning them, and began screaming, but the soldiers […]
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Pope to Condi Rice: 'Suck It'
Everybody’s favorite Nazi-pope told everybody’s favorite frustrated pianist: Pope Benedict XVI refused a meeting request from Condoleezza Rice to meet this past August and discuss issues pertaining to Iraq and the Middle East in general. The first reason is that back in March 2003 — just before the Iraq war began — Rice met with […]