Torture Gets A Pass, But Letter Writing…

So, you can apparently torture without recourse in America:

The Obama administration on Thursday released top secret memos outlining the legal rationale used to justify the CIA’s torture of terror suspects, but vowed not to prosecute the torturers.

“It would be unfair to prosecute dedicated men and women working to protect America for conduct that was sanctioned in advance by the Justice Department,” Attorney General Eric Holder said.

But, defending a Guantanamo prisoner and writing a letter detailing his torture, welp.. that’ll get your ass sent to jail:

A former Guantanamo Bay prisoner who accused a Bay Area company of flying him to foreign torture chambers for the CIA is at the center of a bizarre new case, in which his lawyers face possible jail sentences for writing a letter that asked President Obama to disclose how brutally he was treated.

Only in America.

See Also: A Light At The End Of The Torture Tunnel, Torture Prosecutions Still On The Table, WH Press Secy: There Will Be No Accountability For Torture, Olbermann: “President Obama, You Are Wrong”, The CIA waterboarded two people 266 times… Do you feel safer?, Torture: I’m talking to Yoo, Torture: Obama Is on a Slippery Slope, and This Week In the Conservative Underbelly: Tea Parties, Torture, and Telling.

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Welcome To Glenn Beck’s Deranged, Idiotic America

Woman: [Shouts] “Burn the books!” [applause]

Man: “I don’t think you were serious about that, were you?”

Woman: “I am too.”

Man: “Burn all the books?!”

Woman: “The ones in college, those, those brainwashing books.”

Man: “[laughs] Brainwashing books?”

Woman: “Yes.”

Man: “Which ones are those?”

Woman: “Like, the evolution crap, and, yeah…”

And that’s just one meeting.

Via AS and LGF

See Also: The Tea Baggers’ Strange Brew, A Quick Glimpse Into The Project 9/12 Tea Parties, The Degree To Which Fox News Isn’t Trying Is Amazing, I got your leading conservative intellectual right here, The Mirror Speaks, The Reflection Lies, Here is what happens when political propaganda is fed to a weak mind…, Neil Cavuto of FauxNews is a Time Traveler, Andrew Sullivan, astroturfing Republicans and GOP hypocrisy, Mad As Hell, and Burn Those Evil Science Books!

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Believing In Civil Liberties? That’s A Paddlin’

This is beyond depressing:

Lawyers for Binyam Mohamed face the incredible prospect of a six-month jail sentence in America after writing a letter to President Obama detailing their client’s allegations of torture by US agents…

Clive Stafford Smith, director of legal charity Reprieve, and his colleague Ahmed Ghappour have been summoned to appear before a Washington court on May 11 after a complaint was made by the privilege review team.

The privilege team argue that by releasing the redacted memo Reprieve has breached the rules that govern Guantánamo lawyers and have made a complaint to the court of “unprofessional conduct”.

Yes, you read that right — you can essentially go to jail for 6 months for writing a letter to the President about torture. Hear no evil, see no evil, right?

See Also: Torture And The Other, Getting Your Face Wet, What We Do And Don’t Know About US Medical Personnel and Interrogations, A Month of Crucial Decisions on Torture, Torture, It’s Strictly Confidential, Why is Obama Alienating His Base?, and Red Cross report details CIA war crimes.

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Refugees Herded Into Camps Love American-Manufactured Phosphorous

It’s been confirmed: all the white phosphorous dumped onto Gazans by Israel (which children deserve because they hate freedom) came from American manufactures:

The human rights group said the Israeli military had used white phosphorus in densely populated civilian areas, which it said was an indiscriminate form of attack and a war crime. Its researchers found white phosphorus still burning in residential areas days after the ceasefire.

At the scene of an Israeli attack that killed three Palestinian paramedics and a boy in Gaza City on 4 January, Amnesty found fragments of an AGM114 Hellfire missile, made by Hellfire Systems of Orlando, a joint venture of Lockheed Martin and Boeing. The missile is often fired from Apache helicopters

See Also: Amnesty calls for arms embargo against Israel, Lieberman & Lieberman: Together at Last, On the one hand, Israel, and Death of Asil: An Israeli-Palestinian Tragedy.

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Giuliani, what the fuck?

Can you believe this bullshit? No, not the congresswoman crying rape after bending over and saying fuck me hard to Wall Street. I’m talking about Rudy Giuliani giving us the most bastardized version of Reaganomics I’ve ever heard:

Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani defended corporate bonuses Friday, saying that cutting them also means slashing jobs in the Big Apple.

“If you somehow take that bonus out of the economy, it really will create unemployment,” he said on CNN’s “American Morning.” “It means less spending in restaurants, less spending in department stores, so everything has an impact.”

What the fuck? So ensure that regular New Yorkers continue to be serfs for the CEOs on Wall Street is now the US governments responsibility? Rudy seems to be saying “Give those poor rich bastards a hand up, so that they can shit all over you while you prepare their mocha frappacinos.” Hey Rudy how about the teachers NY is going to fire because they have no budget? Or the MTA workers? Or everyone who rides the fucking MTA? At least there will be jobs for them picking up the purebred dog shit of the rich, right? Keep on playing your fucking fiddle.

I would have thought that Congress would have learned its lesson after the Iraq War authorization. Stop strutting around these slutty no-strings-attached bills, you god damn whores! Don’t come crying to us saying we didn’t know when you get fucked in the ass. These people aren’t your friends. They never were. All they care about is mutual j.o.s while fucking the American people in the ass.

Congress always talks big, but when push comes to shove they always just bend over and take it. Our political system has become theater, where we elect whoever act as if they have the biggest balls. But when push comes to shove, when true evil shows up, all they do is cower. “Do-do-do we have power? But I don’t want responsibility! Please Mr. President, make all the hard decisions for me! I’ll let you fuck me in ass, just be gentle” And now you cry rape.