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Thursday, June 10, 2004The Torture Memo. For anyone who is interested, the full text of the Torture Memo is online here (PDF, via Talk Left.) It's quite disgusting. Terrorism In 2003. From the LA Times: The State Department is scrambling to revise its annual report on global terrorism to acknowledge that it understated the number of deadly attacks in 2003, amid charges that the document is inaccurate and was politically manipulated by the Bush administration. Buuuurn. There's more for anyone who's curious. Here's the bogus report. Tuesday, June 08, 2004Coming Soon To A Theater Near You.... GOP pictures presents... A film by Karl Rove... Starring George W. Bush as.... Richard Nixon! Okay, in all seriousness, this is just anecdotal evidence from several anonymous sources in the White House, but it doesn't sound far fetched considering Shrub-a-Dub's public statements. Here's an excerpt: In meetings with top aides and administration officials, the President goes from quoting the Bible in one breath to obscene tantrums against the media, Democrats and others that he classifies as "enemies of the state." Nice. Link via morons.org. Sunday, June 06, 2004"The Americans Have Let Me Join Their Fraternity! Or: A [near] complete summary of the Prisoner Abuse Scandal I am sick and tired of this shit. First it was The Vile Pill-Popping Pigboy comparing the Abu Ghraib (Grrr-eeb -- and a nice throaty "G" sound) pictures to a frat hazing. Nevermind that frat rushers volunteer for their treatment and prisoners have human rights garaunteed by international laws that prohibit such abuse. Nevermind that sexual abuse is a very serious matter, regardless of how harmless the pictures taken of a man with a hood on being forced to masturbate while a female guard stands by laughing seems at first. Fuck all that. I can forgive that sort of ignorant fuckery. The Taguba Report hadn't been released when that shit started. The severity of it wasn't yet fully known. The jingoistic fuckheads in the Media and their chorus of ditto-monkeys in the blogdom of conservo-asshatvia had every reason to try to downplay the whole thing. I understand how politics work. But it is still -- STILL -- fucking happening! Like this dumb bitch who mere days ago summed up the whole thing by saying soldiers "[put] panties on a prisoner's head." What? I read the Taguba Report and I seem to remember some other stuff happening. Lets see: 6. (S) I find that the intentional abuse of detainees by military police personnel included the following acts: And then there's this: 8. (U) In addition, several detainees also described the following acts of abuse, which under the circumstances, I find credible based on the clarity of their statements and supporting evidence provided by other witnesses (ANNEX 26): And that's just at Abu Ghraib. And lest a dumber than average ditto-monkey think this is still all just some guys having some harmless fun, 37 detainees have died. The deaths include one Afghan who was stripped naked, doused with water and left chained to a wall where he ultimately froze to death. Another who was shot in the chest for throwing rocks at a guard tower and another who was shot in an escape attempt prison authorities knew he was going to make the previous day. And several have died of "blunt force trauma" while being interrogated. They were interrogated to death, as I like to say. [Link] And then there's the two guys who just pled guilty to using electricity to punish prisoners for throwing trash. Have I forgotten anything? There's the growing accounts of rape, but I haven't found the source link. Oh, and there's the arbitrary detention of family members of suspects to use as hostages, but maybe that doesn't apply to this subject. I'm not even gonna go into how high up the chain of command this goes, (although the evidence suggests that it goes pretty high.) The bottom line is that, when this all started with the Abu Ghraib sex abuse pictures, a stupid person could have simply written it off as harmless crap perpetrated by a few soldiers, but it has grown far beyond naked guys being forced to beat off and form human pyramids. It's grown beyond Abu Ghraib. It's grown beyond detainees. And it's grown beyond Iraq. So could we please stop referring to this as "pranks" and "hazing" and "harmless sex-type abuse"? Endnote -- It seems we're even exporting this "hazing" shite to Japan. Poor bastards. Friday, June 04, 2004More Anti-Terrorism Madness. From Infoshop: Four artists have been served subpoenas to appear before a federal grand jury that will consider bioterrorism charges against a university professor whose art involves the use of simple biology equipment. More Info. Meanwhile, via Cursor, experts say it is only a matter of time before terrorists use a dirty bomb. Excerpt: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) records point to "a dramatic rise" in the smuggling of radiological substances, the raw material for this bomb, the British science weekly says in next Saturday's issue. It only gets scarier. Thanks to pResident McRetard and Co there "are still 1,000 radioactive sources that are unaccounted for in Iraq." Perhaps 9-11 wasn't their fault, but the next one sure the hell will be. (And the Dems aren't helping either. Spineless fucking sock monkeys.) Wednesday, June 02, 2004Bringing Troops Into Iraq Under The Table. The Iraqi Colonial Government (err, sorry, "Coalition Provisional Authority,") has earmarked an additional $500 million of Iraq's oil revenue for private mercenaries in Iraq. Let's see, at a thousand bucks a month each, that's about 40,000 soldiers-of-fortune that will be kicking around Iraq for the next year. No, of course you don't get that many, you have to divide by two in order to account for Halliburton's price-gouging. Duh. And, of course, private mercenaries don't get added to the Coalition War Dead Site. If it weren't for all the "civilian contractors" we'd have already topped 1,000 dead in Iraq. Why aren't they being counted anyway? They are the second biggest member of the "Coalition of the Willing" (20,000+ troops.) They are performing military jobs (security, distribution, etc.) They have taken more casualties than all the other coalition members combined (200+ dead.) And in related news, the military announced today that the stop-loss program will be extended again, affecting anyone 90 days or less from gone. I guess that extra 20,000 troops last month wasn't enough. Nor, I assume, was the 4,000 troops taken outta S. Korea. Anyone else want to tell me about how military recruitment is just peachy lately? Not enough positions for all the volunteers, so I've heard again and again. They just gotta limp by until they can bring back the draft next year though. Tuesday, June 01, 2004A Perfect Example Of Why Voting Is Meaningless. This is fucking criminal: "Florida's 2000 felon purge program resulted in over 50,000 legal voters being disenfranchised," said Leon County elections supervisor Ion Sancho in a written statement. "When asked for assurances that the [2004 felon list] was 90 percent accurate -- the minimum level local supervisors of elections requested for such a list -- we were told that it was better than the 2000 list, with no data to support its accuracy." [Link] 90-fucking-percent!?!?! I'm pretty sure that it's illegal to deny any eligible voter their right to vote. It's not my preferred form of governance though, so maybe I could be wrong. Anyone want to set me straight on this? It's your bloody "Democracy." Ha. What fucking good is your precious Constitution anyway? Not worth the government it empowers, is it? I'm tellin' ya: Ya can't trust anybody with power. Can't. Proven every day. Why won't you listen? Do you think any of your "elections" are legitimate? Ha.  Friday, May 28, 2004Todays "What The Fuck?!?" Moment. By an unlucky chance I wandered into Steve DenBeste's place a couple of minutes ago and was immediately struck in the face by this jagged piece of stupidity: One of [the DVD's] was "The Battle of Britain", one of the better war movies ever made. It was released in 1969, which was far enough from the war so that they didn't feel the need to make all the German characters seem like evil, sadistic animals, but still early enough so that the film makers were not infected with post-modernist multiculturalist mindset and didn't need to try to portray Hitler and the other top Nazis semi-sympathetically. (Or to try to figure out some reason why it was actually America's fault.) What the Fuck? That's all I can say.  
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