Sunday, June 13, 2004
Those Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living And Became Mixed-Up Headlines
CNN.com: Juror: Sympathy spared Nichols
Original Article
Not that I'm at all happy with our government's role as black-hooded Wielder of the Axe, but have none of these jurors seen Bowling for Columbine? James Nichols' interviews in that movie are quite enlightening.
BBS News: Middle East: US 'not bound by torture laws'
Original Article
A Pentagon report last year argued that President George W Bush was not bound by laws banning the use of torture, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Woe be to the weak-kneed and the faint of heart that strays unwisely to the dark chambers beneath the White House, mwahaha!
What really infuriates me about this whole Abu Gharib business? That there is this great beclouded mass of U.S. Citizens who will still support Bush after this, for whom there is absolutely no thing that could be revealed about him that could possibly change their minds, so swayed by their voluntarily-restricted sources of information. I'm surrounded by these people. Most of them, to be fair, are like this because their lives are full of so much worry and toil (though certainly not by third world standards) that they don't have the energy or time to really examine whatever beliefs came installed at the factory.
I don't believe these people are beyond hope, but I have no clue as to what could possibly change their mind. The huge Monty Pythonesque Hand of God itself could come down from the sky with a note reading "Bush == Bad," and they'd just start arguing as to whether that was, in fact, the real Hand of God or one of Satan's cunning traps.
Bush will never see prosecution whether the laws affect him or not. It's interesting that we have different standards of behavior for brutal South American strongmen and Presidents of the United States; the strongmen are held more accountable! Laws that have no hope for being enforced are basically void, and that's the comfortable position in which President Torquemada now finds himself.
CNN.com: Juror: Sympathy spared Nichols
Original Article
Not that I'm at all happy with our government's role as black-hooded Wielder of the Axe, but have none of these jurors seen Bowling for Columbine? James Nichols' interviews in that movie are quite enlightening.
BBS News: Middle East: US 'not bound by torture laws'
Original Article
A Pentagon report last year argued that President George W Bush was not bound by laws banning the use of torture, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Woe be to the weak-kneed and the faint of heart that strays unwisely to the dark chambers beneath the White House, mwahaha!
What really infuriates me about this whole Abu Gharib business? That there is this great beclouded mass of U.S. Citizens who will still support Bush after this, for whom there is absolutely no thing that could be revealed about him that could possibly change their minds, so swayed by their voluntarily-restricted sources of information. I'm surrounded by these people. Most of them, to be fair, are like this because their lives are full of so much worry and toil (though certainly not by third world standards) that they don't have the energy or time to really examine whatever beliefs came installed at the factory.
I don't believe these people are beyond hope, but I have no clue as to what could possibly change their mind. The huge Monty Pythonesque Hand of God itself could come down from the sky with a note reading "Bush == Bad," and they'd just start arguing as to whether that was, in fact, the real Hand of God or one of Satan's cunning traps.
Bush will never see prosecution whether the laws affect him or not. It's interesting that we have different standards of behavior for brutal South American strongmen and Presidents of the United States; the strongmen are held more accountable! Laws that have no hope for being enforced are basically void, and that's the comfortable position in which President Torquemada now finds himself.
