The Jay S. Bybee memo of thursday, outlining the methods of torture able to be utilized by CIA officials and other US Nationals abroad, came as a revolting shock. The day before, thousands of dangerously brainwashed right wing psychopaths protested taxes, and I suppose, all forms of societal responsibility and human empathy. Today, it is clear that virtually no justice will be sought on the former, as Attorney General Eric Holder vowed not to prosecute those who carried out said acts of Torture.
It has been a very interesting and illuminating few weeks. This is a country where students protesting a known war criminal as their university president are teargassed , beat up, and restrained while being pepper-sprayed by the police, but right-wing extremists protesting imagined tax increases and other racist and psychopathic fantasies are given an international media platform and totally legitimized (and in Neil Cavuto’s case, inflated).
Yes, it has been a VERY illuminating few weeks.
I have read the Bybee memo, and I am sick to my stomach. I thought using insects as torture phased out in the Achemenid dynsasty, but apparently I was way off base. I thought water boarding would remain ‘just a Pol Pot thing’. Again, I was way, way off.
Honestly, where the fuck are the massive rallies about the torture, the deaths of detainees in US custody, the secret CIA black sites? Instead we have rabid right-wing psychopaths en masse protesting everything from a black man in the white house, to secession- yes, read it again, secession. I couldn’t make this shit up if I tried anymore, this is getting so beyond dangerous that I don’t even have words most of the time. I end up stammering like Billy Budd for most of the day now. Example:
For all the coverage of Texas asshole Rick Perry talking about secession, the Georgia state senate passed this doozie 43 to 1. They passed resolution 632. Here is said resolution in full, but I’ll spare you some of the legalese, and cut to the chase. Firstly, they redefine the scope of the federal government’s authority of prosecution, and state that the ONLY crimes they can prosecute are treason, piracy and slavery. Everything else is null and void (somebody tell Madoff already). Secondly, they state that should the government attempt to overreach, the United states of America, and the United States Constitution is nullified and all authority is placed in the State government. What constitutes overreaching you might ask? According to Resolution 632, anything to do with the restriction of the sales of assault weapons would do the trick. By the by, this term ‘nullify’ has a rather distasteful history, such as during the civil rights movement as a means to disregard Supreme Court rulings on segregation, and my personal favorite, the Nullification Crisis on the path to the Civil War.
Once again I will not mince words- I fear that if nothing is done to stem the tide of this fulmination of anger and hate by these right-wing psychopaths, that some manifestation of insurrection is not only possible but likely.
It is getting harder for me to laugh at the ridiculousness of this news, and ridiculous and absurd it is indeed, but sometimes I know not what else to do.
April 19th, 2009 at 6:51 pm
How about this for a solution: We let Georgia and Texas secede (and every other state that prefers guns to education) and watch gleefully as they become third-world countries in a matter of seconds. Then, when they beg to be allowed back in to our conglomeration of 48, we instead load them into a bus, with the fattest and dumbest in back, en route to “Obama’s secret concentration camps,” whereby we will force them all to teabag one another until they apologize for ruining the world. The length of time they teabag for will, of course, be directly representative of their dedication to and love for America. Yes? I think this is a grand idea.
April 20th, 2009 at 12:18 pm
RON PAUL ‘ONETWO
ABOLISH THE FEDERAL RESERVE.
GOLD STANDARD FOR ALLLLLL.
LET THOSE PIRATES START PILLAGING FOR ACTUAL GOOOOOLD.
September 6th, 2009 at 2:33 pm
You have no idea what you are talking about. You can let Obama and his leftist, liberal, American hating, communist and terrorist loving criminal cronies tell you what to do. While you’re at it let them tell you what to eat, where to live and more importantly what to say and think. If you want to live in a country where you have no freedom and the “Gov’t.” runs everything try China. Or maybe Obama’s favorite Cuba. Hey, I bet Chavez wouldn’t mind having you either. Anyone who says standing up for the Consitituion and keeping the Federal Government in check has either been brainwashed, is not informed, is stupid or maybe all three. It is the right of the PEOPLE to stand up againt a Government that oversteps its boundaries. A good start is with States Rights. I am sick and tired of all the Civil War bull****! You were obviously educated in one of those liberal school systems that make up the history in the history books. The Civil War was not started over the issue of Slavery. It was fought over the Federal Government overstepping it’s bounds and trying to control the South. Maybe we should teach AMERICAN HISTORY in schools now instead of World History or African History or Euopean History. That way more people will now about the United States of America and will hopefully make better choices in elections and not elect a communist loving, Dictator want to be President like Obama.
September 6th, 2009 at 9:08 pm
Dear norris.
I hope you are spoofing and not “for real”. You comments are the rants of the True Beleiver Idiot-God bless old Eric Hoffer. Can you define in philosophical, political and operational terms what and who you consider is a “leftist”, a “communist” and a terrorist loving criminal cronie. Last time I checked, most of Obama’s defense staffers were “friends of GW Bush and company”. They are anything but a terrorist loving lot. Are you keeping up with Afghanistan pray tell? Now, if you hate the Feds so much, please stay out of public education for now and into the future. Keeps your kids out of public school, never take Soc Security, stay the hell out of any Nartonal Parks, keep off the roads, you don’t belong there. And never, ever get cancer cause you just won’t be ab;e to afford treatment in your private and oh so not “commy” plans, and oh by the way, all those fancy drugs for diseases- oh yeah- they are supported in research by Federal funds-ever hear of the NIH? You are an ingrate-so there! You would not know a communist if one sat on your lap.