Tag: torture
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Sotomayor, En Banc and Closed Circuit
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Tortured Answers
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A shameful passage
The United States Supreme Court illegitimately installed George W. Bush as president of the United States after the 2000 elections. Boy George was going to while away his time in office, rewarding friends in politics and the oil and defense industries with rich contracts. That was why Dick Cheney held those meetings with energy interests…
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The Gitmos before Gitmo
Zina Saunders‘ illustration for “Guantanamo at Home” in The Nation magazine in which Jeanne Theoharis, with the proposed closing of Guantanamo, takes a hard look at the harsh treatment of terror suspects in prisons on American soil. Read the article here. Love0 Share Tweet Share Pin
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Nat Hentoff weighs in
In two columns last week and this week, Village Voice columnist and legendary civil liberties activist Nat Hentoff argues vigorously for bringing American officials responsible for human rights abuses during The Bush Years to be brought up on War Crimes charges. Last week he said: With regard to serial war crimes, “accountability” would mean putting…
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‘Honest Belief’
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Cage Match
John McCain (incidentally, senator, Jack Balkin at Balkination, has a question) is piling up primary victories. But radio entertainer and reigning Republican party demagogue extraordinaire Rush Limbaugh says that don’t matter. And Dr. James Dobson (doctor of what? who’s he ever cured of anything?) of “Focus on Family” also says voters don’t matter. He’ll decide…
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Volpe’s Return Spurs Angry Blast
Sunday, September 7, 1997 by MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writer Lawyers for alleged police torture victim Abner Louima yesterday criticized city officials for allowing the central suspect in the 70th Precinct scandal to return to police duty. Officer Justin Volpe, accused of sodomizing Louima with a stick, will return to modified duty this…