U. S. Secretary of State Hilary Clinton says that the U. S. must stop the arbitrary detention of prisoners not charged with crimes, and must stop torturing prisoners.
That's surprising and most welcome good news.
It would mean her boss, President Obama, would have to close his (yes, his) concentration camp at Guantanamo Bay, and release all those detainees who have been incarcerated in cages there these last ten years--though none of them has been charged with a crime.
It would also mean that the U.S. would have to stop the daily, round-the-clock torture of Pvt. Bradley Manning at Quantico, and either bring charges against him or release him--and give him the honors and medals he deserved for his brave and heroic actions..
Ah, but damn it, she said that Syria had to stop arbitrary detention and torture. Not the U.S. The U.S. is above the law--because it has thousands of nuclear weapons. And it is above the law because it is so far in debt that if it collapses, the whole world is in a mess. Both the U.S. missiles and the U.S. debt are threats.
So the U.S. continues to be a rogue state, and hypocrisy continues to be its national pastime.
Bert Hornback
woensdag 20 april 2011
maandag 11 april 2011
What are we doing? What we are doing.
Three workers in Nebraska have experienced an "unplanned radiation exposure." I assume this means that sometimes workers experience "PLANNED radiation exposure."
No doubt members of the military cause "unplanned civilian casualties" with their guns and bombs. And "planned casualties"? I am sure our troops experience "unplanned casualties" of their own--and I wonder, given our generals' vulgar attitude toward suffering and death, if our troops don't experience "planned casualties" as well.
Every time we kill human beings in our wars--in Iraq, in Afghanistan, in Pakistan, in Libya--those human beings, once dead, as declared to be enemies. That, of course, makes sense: we are the good guys, and perversely, in our absurd moral system,good guys kill bad guys.
I know that many Americans--many of my friends and former friends--will object to what I have said: not because they deny it or disagree with it, but because they don't want it said.
No doubt members of the military cause "unplanned civilian casualties" with their guns and bombs. And "planned casualties"? I am sure our troops experience "unplanned casualties" of their own--and I wonder, given our generals' vulgar attitude toward suffering and death, if our troops don't experience "planned casualties" as well.
Every time we kill human beings in our wars--in Iraq, in Afghanistan, in Pakistan, in Libya--those human beings, once dead, as declared to be enemies. That, of course, makes sense: we are the good guys, and perversely, in our absurd moral system,good guys kill bad guys.
I know that many Americans--many of my friends and former friends--will object to what I have said: not because they deny it or disagree with it, but because they don't want it said.
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