Andymatic

Category: 2. Disdain for the Recognition of Human Rights

  • Former Reagan Staffer Official: Impeach Bush, Try Him for War Crimes

    From DailyKos: Paul Craig Roberts said that the US government is in the hands of dangerous psychopaths who are a disgrace to the human race and who should be arrested as war criminals and turned over the the Hague. Former associate editor of the Wall Street Journal and former Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury […]

  • Iraq War Roundup

    Much falling out from Reddit.com: Young officers leaving army at alarming rate after initial commitments met: Suddenly every holiday is about the military WaPo to report that Blackwater mercenary forces opened fire on Iraq forces. Cheney wipes his ass with the Geneva Conventions in his address to West Point grads. 4 year old boy beaten […]

  • Supreme Court Rules: Wrongful Searches at Gunfight? Sucks to Be You

    Another brick in the wall… The Hudson case basically gave police carte blanche to violate the knock-and-announce rule without having to worry about application of the exclusionary rule. This case says that innocent civilians should have to bear the humiliating, terrifying, and possibly dangerous costs of mistakes made by agents of the state. It’s a […]

  • CIA Agents Last only 14 Seconds When Water Boarded

    More Newspeak: Enhanced interrogation techniques Which really means Torture isn’t torture if the United States does it. 1. The Attention Grab: The interrogator forcefully grabs the shirt front of the prisoner and shakes him. 2. Attention Slap: An open-handed slap aimed at causing pain and triggering fear. 3. The Belly Slap: A hard open-handed slap […]

  • Vedict in Denmark on Honor Killings

    Ghazala Khan (1987–23 September 2005) was a Danish‐Pakistani woman, who was shot and killed in Denmark by her brother after she had married against the will of the family. The murder of Ghazala had been ordered by her father to save the family honour, making it a so‐called honour killing. No fewer than nine people […]

  • Andrew Bacevich on Semiwar

    Andrew Bacevich remains one of my favorite non-fiction authors. His 2 books have truly been a great education in the last several decades of foreign policy. To imagine that getting rid of Bush will cure what ails the body politic is akin to assuming that excising a tumor will alone suffice to cure cancer. The […]

  • Kent State Shootings: Tape ‘reveals order' to shoot Vietnam protesters

    Back from the past: The command, as Alan Canfora heard it on a 37-year-old audio recording recently discovered in a government archive, appeared to leave no room for doubt. “Right here. Get set. Point. Fire.” Then came 13 seconds of gunfire. … “There has been a 37-year cover-up at Kent State. The commanding officers have […]

  • Military Wife Chews Out William Kristol on C-SPAN

  • Veteran CIA Analyst Says Forged Niger Memo Traces Back to Cheney

  • Call Your House Reps: Floor Vote on Cheney Impeachment Tomorrow (Wednesday)

    (Update below) Put up or shut up. Do you have a whole 2 minutes of your day to express your dis-satisfaction? Hell, you can do this on your way to get your afternoon latte. Go to http://house.gov, look up your Congress rep and tell them about the impeachment vote tomorrow. In an 18-page draft resolution, […]