Jan 27 2009
Re-banning torture is fine – but it’s hardly enough.
Torture is one of those words that is just too easy to say. The facility with which it slides off the tongue belies its terrible gravity.
The act of torture is cruelty personified. It is easily among the most horrific deeds of which we are capable. What could be worse? Murder and genocide I suppose…but little else.
Jan 02 2009
Government investigations found that officials responsible for protecting endangered species have violated the law, censored scientists and manipulated data to limit recovery of species facing extinction in order to protect financial interests of industries instead. Many oppose Bush’s rampant violations of our rule of law governing human rights and civil rights but say we should move on. But, the lack of any accountability has caused illegal conduct to be silently accepted and spread like a virus infecting most substantive issues, including the Endangered Species Act (ESA). We face a catastrophic loss of species globally, the inability to provide the beauty of sustained biodiversity for future generations as well as financial repercussions. Taxpayers will pay for the investigations and the “unnecessary expenditure of hundreds of thousands of dollars to re-issue decisions” as well as the expensive costs of litigation filed to compel the government to comply with the rule of law.
Jul 09 2008
Call, fax or email. It’s too late now to send a postcard to stop this heinous capitulating “cave-in to be” but it’s not too late to start letting them know that gutting our fourth amendment is not cool.
Why is it necessary, why is it politically expedient, to set in stone and make yet another law that falsely legitimizes the crimes of the Executive, of Congress, of the Department of Justice and the telecom industry? In light of the FACTS that Bush Committed 30 Felonies and did not do so alone, did not act without support and protection from Congress — what makes it so important that this must be passed today? There are ongoing cases that this would shut down — more reason, not less, to send this disgraceful veil of faux legitimacy to an early and ignoble grave.
