New rules

[sabotabby]

Let me get this straight:

You can be jailed without being charged with anything.
You do not have the right to know why you have been detained.
You cannot be tortured, so the torturers will simply change the definition of torture.
You can be executed on the basis of testimony that you've given while you are being tortured enthusiastically questioned.
You can be executed on the basis of evidence given by someone else, while that person was being tortured.
If your lawyer wants to defend you, he or she has to run it by the government first.
We can hold you as long as we like. "Until hostilities cease" is a funny phrase in the context of perpetual war against abstract concepts.

I feel like I'm repeating myself most of the time.

This is so wrong.

Comments

[symonblack.livejournal.com]

Look on the bright side: actions this evil make violent
revolution far more likely! :D

[funnel101.livejournal.com]

I'm neither shocked nor surprised. I guess I always suspected this was the case for the detainnees.

Amnesty International might be a good charity to support at this time... They're running an ad campaign in DC's bus terminals right now, huge ads with "The America We Believe In Does Not Torture" or something like that. $43 pays for a day.

[fannishnonsense]

That is sickening. Not surprising, but utterly sickening. Some days I just wish I could go back to bed and hide under the covers until it all goes away.

[shoocu-shoocu.livejournal.com]

I don't have anything to add, other than that I suffer along with you.

[jhfurnish.livejournal.com]

Americans were spineless enough to just let it happen.

Y'know what really makes me sick? The Irish Republic let the American Government force an agreement that allows the CIA and FBI to enter the home of any Irish citizen, arrest them, take them back to America, fuck with/sieze their property, search their home, ad nauseum, over the terror issue.

It makes me sick. Do they do this to the fucking Orangemen in the North? I'm certain they do not.

[mistersmearcase.livejournal.com]

Enthusiastically questioned. You crack me up. When I'm not screaming in terror.

[eyelidlessness.livejournal.com]

Call me cynical, but I don't think any of these rules are new...

[andreazenith.livejournal.com]

=>.<=

Blorg. Just blorg.

[5-miles.livejournal.com]

What gets me are the numbers, they only have evidence to bring to trial 60-80 of 400 prisoners. Another 380 people have been let go. Never ending madness.

[lopukhov.livejournal.com]

Really?