Andymatic

Category: 2. Disdain for the Recognition of Human Rights

  • Marine in Haditha 'Ordered to Kill Women and Children'

    This is terrible: “I told him there were women and kids inside there. He said ‘Well, shoot them,”’ Lance-Cpl Mendoza told prosecutor Lieutenant Colonel Sean Sullivan. “And what did you say to him?” Lt-Col Sullivan asked. “I said ‘But they’re just women and children.’ He didn’t say nothing.”

  • Mapping the Path to Ultimate Executive Power

    From Ollie North to the Present Day: “I request that matter not be touched upon today.” A map of bills and Executive Orders that allow the President to suspend the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, seize commercial aircraft, roads, rivers, highways, communication media, petroleum, energy industries, farms… I do wish they’d say who signed […]

  • Gonzales Resigns

    Presumably to spend more time with his family.

  • American Psychologists Association Votes Overwhelming to Support Torture

    While the AMA and the American Psychiatrists Association had rejected their professionals being at all involved with interrogation or torture, the Psychologists have taken another road: After a raucous debate about what role – if any — psychologists should play in U.S. government interrogations of terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay, the American Psychological Association voted […]

  • Baghdad Without Water: 117 Degrees, 6 Million People

    Occupying forces must provide critical infrastructure:  Major parts of the city of six million people have lacked running water for six days, while daily high temperatures have ranged from 115 to 120 degrees. The tiny amount of water dripping through the pipes is causing many of those who must drink it to suffer acute intestinal […]

  • Armed Robots Patrol Bagdad

    Can we treat the Iraqi people with just a little bit more contempt? The robots are currently being piloted through the streets of Bagdad using remote control. According to an interview on CNET with Chief Army Scientist Thomas Killion however, the army soon plans to make the killing machines fully automatic. “The FCS [Future Combat […]

  • Feingold Opposes Impeachment on DailyKos, Gets Ass Handed to Him

    Russ Feingold posted on DailyKos: I believe that the President and Vice President may well have committed impeachable offenses.  But with so many important issues facing this country and so much work to be done, I am concerned about the great deal of time multiple impeachment trials would take away from the Congress working on […]

  • US Soldier Boasts of Torture and Rape

  • Holocaust Survivor Leaves US: 'I've seen this before.'

    (via Reddit) “I’m going back because I’ve seen this before.” He then commenced to explain that when he was a kid, he watched with his family in fear as Hitler’s government committed atrocity after atrocity, and no one was willing to say anything. He said the news refused to question the government, and the ones […]

  • Pentagon Pushes Out Taguba

    Remember Army Major General Antonio M. Taguba? He was the author of the original report that detailed the torturing at Abu Gharib. “Here . . . comes . . . that famous General Taguba—of the Taguba report!” Rumsfeld declared, in a mocking voice. … Taguba, describing the moment nearly three years later, said, sadly, “I […]