torture
No words
I am a person who is not often caught speechless. This does it. Maybe tomorrow I'll be less PISSED OFF and able to react fully. You know, evil is a word I use sparingly. This is evil. I don't know. This needs to end. I'm going to go and cry/scream/hit things.
Bush, Torture, Guantanamo
This is a very long post, but if you want to get the main point just read the bolded excerpt below the fold.
I started writing this in response to a response President Bush gave to a question at a press conference this morning.
Truth to power from high schoolers
Ok that messed up the first time! Sorry.
A large group of honor students were invited to the White House and an opportunity to meet President George Bush. Even with my disgust for his policies and his tenure as the president, it would still be a tremendous meet in greet. Well quite a few of these students were not intimidated. 50 of them signed a letter stating:
“We do not want America to represent torture. We urge you to do all in your power to stop violations of the human rights of detainees, to cease illegal renditions, and to apply the Geneva Convention to all detainees, including those designated enemy combatants.”
Demonstrations of U.S. Torture Tactics
Amnesty International UCSB chapter is going to be demonstrating waterboarding and stress positions as used by U.S. military personnel at places like Guantanamo Prison. We won't be doing the things for the length of time and with the same intensity, though because we don't want anyone to get hurt, obviously. We'll only do enough to show how it works and why it qualifies as torture. I tried waterboarding tonight for about 5 seconds ---it sucks--- I can't imagine doing it for 2 or 3 minutes.
Saturday Open Thread
- "IF A GREAT MUSICIAN PLAYS GREAT MUSIC BUT NO ONE HEARS . . . WAS HE REALLY ANY GOOD?"
- Bush still doesn't understand how government works.
- Released Iranian diplomat accuses U.S. of torturing him.
- Sudan: why the hell are these murderous jackholes allowed to get away with this?
Don't talk while you chew. And if you don't eat your meat, you can't have any pudding.