Bush Administration Traitors!

As long as the we're going after the New York Times for the evil of publishing the stories about the NSA terrorist wiretapping, terrorist bank record spying, etc., I say let's lynch the treacherous scum in the Bush White House! Get a load of this statement by some "senior official" Benedict Arnold describing what the administration told the leaders of the heroic Kadima party in Israel, warning them to not go "too far" in their triumphant re-invasion of the Gaza strip: "'The Israeli measures...

‘Unlawful Combatants’ Do Have Rights, Court Rules

by Jim Lobe In a major defeat for President George W. Bush with potentially far-reaching implications for his conduct of the "war on terror," the U.S. Supreme Court Thursday ruled that military tribunals established by the Pentagon to try suspected terrorists held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, violated the U.S. Constitution. Writing for a 5-3 court majority, Justice John Paul Stevens also rejected the administration's long-held position that the Geneva Conventions did not apply to suspected...

A Few Things

Do you guys read Lukery? He rules. That is, he blogs every damn thing on earth. For example, this great piece by Laura Rozen in the Post about Iranian exiles and their lies that I had missed. Update: Also, the guy is fucking brilliant - for a Tazmanian. Also the KAOS Report archives have finally been updated, that is last week and this one. And there are 8 new stickers for sale at http://scotthortonshow.com/stickers Two more: in honor of his dissent [page 25] in the Hamdan case, and Our...

What the World Needs Now Is DDT

Check out this great article about DDT in the NYT Magazine from 2004. "Probably the worst thing that ever happened to malaria in poor nations was its eradication in rich ones. That has made one of Africa's leading killers shockingly invisible. '''Silent Spring' had a clear message about things at home Americans could see and touch and feel,'' said Brooks B. Yeager, vice president of the Global Threats Program for the World Wildlife Fund. ''Americans who live on the Carolina coast know the...

Supreme Court blocks war crimes trials for Guantanamo detainees

John Roberts' Decision overturned! Washington -AP, June 29, 2006 - The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that President Bush overstepped his authority in ordering military war crimes trials for Guantanamo Bay detainees. The ruling, a rebuke to the administration and its aggressive anti-terror policies, was written by Justice John Paul Stevens, who said the proposed trials were illegal under U.S. law and Geneva conventions.The case focused on Salim Ahmed Hamdan, a Yemeni who worked as a bodyguard...

That Mysterious Meeting in Rome

Laura Rozen has a new piece in Mother Jones about Ledeen, Franklin, Rhode, Gorbanifar, SCIRI, et al. in Rome in December 2001. This one is not about the lies that led us into Iraq, but the lies that are leading us into Iran, and how full of crap Gorbanifar is. Like we didn't all know that. All but Curt Weldon that is.

“Big Brother” Bush and Connecting the Data Dots

Jonathan Turley writes about the death of privacy in America, "not with a fight, but a yawn." "For most of our history, one of the greatest protections for civil liberties has been the practical inability of the government to surveil a large number of citizens at one time. In the last couple of decades, those technological barriers have fallen away. "In the meantime, the Supreme Court has removed legal barriers to the government's acquisition of personal information by allowing it to obtain...

Best Jefferson Gun Quote Ever

And there are a few. "Laws that forbid the carrying of arms ... disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. ... Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man." Not that that isn't obvious. Thanks Charley Reese.

LRC blog Scoop in the Miami “Terrorists” case

According to a writer to Lew Rockwell, this is the Sears tower, if you live in the Liberty City area of Miami: He writes: "Speaking as a former resident of Miami, to a kid in the Liberty City area, this is the Sears Tower -- not some building in Chicago. The tower is all that's left of the old Sears Building on Biscayne Blvd. in Liberty City. Since I've been out of Miami for more than a decade, I can't tell you what stage of construction it is in, but it is supposed to be part of a new...

Makin’ sure ya’ll saw this

The Post page 16 last Sunday: "Just after the lightning takeover of Baghdad by U.S. forces three years ago, an unusual two-page document spewed out of a fax machine at the Near East bureau of the State Department. It was a proposal from Iran for a broad dialogue with the United States, and the fax suggested everything was on the table -- including full cooperation on nuclear programs, acceptance of Israel and the termination of Iranian support for Palestinian militant groups. But top Bush...