Archive for January, 2010

… in talking about anything other than this?:

[..] one of the Gitmo Three [ostensible "suicides"] was arrested at age 17, held for some years without being charged, and scheduled for release at the time of his death due to the military’s conclusion that no evidence linked him to al Qaeda or the Taliban. We may never know exactly how he and his fellow detainees died: A conclusive, independent autopsy is impossible because their bodies were returned to their families with their throats missing.

What I want to ask everyone: what do you lose by loudly condemning this?  You can still support the war on terror, the invasion of Iraq, indefinite detention, torture or whatever else you want to support, while still admitting that murdering an innocent person and then covering it up is wrong.  There is no reason to not denounce this; except as a signal to your ideological masters that you are willing to overlook even the worst crimes to prove your obedience.

What the heck?  Stop making my healthcare posts look stupid only a few weeks after I put them up.

This is pathetic.  Is there somewhere I can donate to a fund for Haitian emigration?  It seems like a few hundred for a plane ticket and some bribes to the INS would be a more cost effective form of (permanent) aid.