A few items of late that have caught our eye, but we haven’t had time to cover in detail. So, you get the Readers Digest versions for now. You’re welcome!
• Susan Rice and the Democrats once again succumb to the demands of terrorists.
• Whodathunkit? But questions arise about the legitimacy of the claims made by Fox’ latest wannabe James O’Keefe, about that video purporting to show an “unprovoked attack” by “union thugs” outside the capital building in Lansing, MI this week. The most amazing part? Someone at The New York Times — yes, that New York Times — is one of those actually noticing the big honkin’ edit in the middle of the video, rather than just reporting it all as unquestioned fact.
• Eric Holder spoke about the need to protect voting rights at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library. We have more than a few bones to pick about it, but we’ll just point you to the actual speech for the moment.
• What’s the difference between this and just stealing? House Republicans secretly — secretly — authorized $500,000 in tax payer dollars to defend the unconstitutional “Defense of Marriage Act”. More of that small government “conservatism”, apparently.
• Finally, for now, the critically acclaimed Zero Dark Thirty, the new theatrical film about the manhunt for Osama Bin Laden, reportedly glorifies the torture that led to his capture and killing, even though no torture whatsoever actually led to his capture and killing.
Discuss.
If Susan Rice had become Sec. of State, the terrorists would have won. The terrorists being the Clintons. She was our ambassador to Rwanda in the Clinton years when all the genocide was going on. Wink and a nod for brutal dictators ..Africa is rich in natural resources. WE wanted them. See democracynow yesterday or day before online. Right at the last of the show. Ray McGovern spills the beans. Likens her kind of state department diplomacy to Madeline Albright, her mentor, saying 500,000 children dead in Iraq due to our sanctions was ok.
In their coverage of Zero Dark Thirty, Los Angeles Times, in a “news” item, suggested that the movie had sparked a “debate” on the efficacy of “enhanced interrogation techniques.”
Here’s a letter I fired off to their editorial staff in reply:
In Dec. 1941 my father was waterboarded by the Japanese in Shanghai. Even though he thought he was signing his own death warrant, he confessed that he was a British agent. It wasn’t true, but, at that moment, he would have signed anything just to end his ordeal.
Irrespective of whether the information garnered by torture turns out to be true, and there’s no way at the time to know, torture is a crime under both U.S. law and international treaties. In 1948 the Japanese officer responsible for waterboarding my father was tried and convicted at the war crimes trials in Hong Kong. That same standard should be applied to the Americans who ordered or took part in waterboarding.
Hello Brad Friedman,
I consider the NY Crimes newspaper something only fit for the bottom of a bird cage. Any important story going into the newspaper seems to be sent through the cesspool one or more times until it meets their exacting standard (crap)! This is a great letdown from what it once was.