Some comments on recent events:
Earlier this week we had the AI report on human rights to give us nightmares. Amnesty points out that the torture, killings and other atrocities committed by US forces are inconsistent with the lofty rhetoric about freedom and such like. According to the miserable failure in this latest press conference, we can just dismiss AI's report as yet more America (freedom/God/Apple Pie)-hating BS:
In terms of the detainees, we've had thousands of people detained. We've investigated every single complaint against the detainees. It seemed like to me they based some of their decisions on the word of -- and the allegations -- by people who were held in detention, people who hate America, people that had been trained in some instances to disassemble -- that means not tell the truth. And so it was an absurd report. It just is. And, you know -- yes, sir.
Yes, they "disassemble" this:
A short aside. Does anyone else think it strange that there is a need to airbrush out TESTICLES when showing torture? Do most people find hairy sacks more shocking than torture? Is a penis more disturbing than people abusing other humans? Another case of Old Europe I suppose.
I need to admit to my shame that I was unaware of the scale of the horror in Africa. Now that sounds truly like TERROR, but do we give a fuck? Thanks to AI for trying to bring all this to the attention of the world
Nancy Pelosi delivered yet another anti Palestinian talk to AIPAC while two senior AIPAC employees are being indicted for espionage against the US. (Why is it that Anti Palestinian does not sound as bad as Anti Semitic - they are Semites too?) My favorite quote? Gotta be this one:
There are those who contend that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is all about Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. This is absolute nonsense. In truth, the history of the conflict is not over occupation, and never has been: it is over the fundamental right of Israel to exist.
It is all about a country's right (what other country makes claim to such a right?) to exist trumping the right of 4 million HUMANS to live free of occupation. Personally I believe people have rights, not countries, but I'm an old European, and therefore no doubt an anti Semite. Incidentally if, as the anti Palestinian crowd insist, criticism of Israeli crimes is anti Semitism, then I'm proud to be labeled as such by them. But they should stand still while I call them racist, colonialist religious supremacists.
