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Bipartisan Call For Justice

December 18th, 2008 · No Comments · politics

This is the first time I’ve done a second post on a given day, but the occasion warrants it. A bipartisan report from the Senate Armed Services Committee has made a strong case for bringing criminal charges against Administration officials for their decisions that led to the U.S. torture of prisoners, including at Abu Ghraib. [...]

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Sustainable Torture

March 10th, 2008 · No Comments · politics, sustainability

While I had a beautiful weekend of planting fruit trees, singing in church and spending time with Thor, I woke at 5 this morning from a dream of a man being tortured, specifically waterboarded. Do you think I might be troubled by President Bush’s recent veto of Congressional efforts to curb the CIA’s “harsh interrogation tactics” (torture) of prisoners?

Politics is not my primary topic, because it’s covered so thoroughly elsewhere

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