On Jun 2, 2005, at 1:43 PM, Gary Denton wrote:
On 6/2/05, Ronn!Blankenship <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
At 11:42 PM Wednesday 6/1/2005, Julia Thompson wrote:
Dave Land wrote:
Folks,
�ber-geek, "spiritual teacher," sports fan and political blogger Dan
Shafer quotes the president telling the truth in a way that may not
have
been quite what he intended:
"See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over
and
over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of
catapult
the propaganda."
Shafer connects it to the administration's about-face with respect
to
Amnesty International (2003: source of valuable information about
Saddam
Hussein; 2005: "it's absurd.")
Don't take my word for it:
http://tinyurl.com/ds447
or, if you like big hairy URLs:
http://www.scraprap.com/webx?14@@.1e6f62b3
Given the commitment of the United States to human rights and open
inspections of facilities to ensure that UN mandates are being
complied with, I'm sure they'll allow open unannounced inspections of
the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay.
Amnesty, defending its description of Gitmo as a 'gulag,' has urged the
US to allow independent investigations of allegations of torture at
detention centers for terrorism suspects, says a Reuters report:
http://tinyurl.com/cfd5b
Or, for a truly big hairy URL:
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;
jsessionid=MN3IHH3OFJTKICRBAEOCFFA?
type=topNews&storyID=8679743§ion=news
I mean, they've nothing to hide. Right?
You'd hope so, but you'd be naively assuming that we self-proclaimed
defenders of liberty and human rights actually intended to defend
liberty and human rights. I hate what is being done in the name of
America. Perhaps they think that we have to destroy our reputation
in order to save it.
Dave
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