June 08, 2007
Bush is welcomed to Hel(l): "Lucky we"
My Polish friends want favored status visa relationship with U.S. so they don't have to put up big bucks, big application and then in trepidation wait and wait. They might hate Bush and demonstrate openly for democratic causes but you know what?
If our thug administration will relax visa requirements, these Eastern Europeans will vote to send a few thousand troops to Iraq. (And turn a blind eye to rendition in their country.....?) This is realpolitik.
Meanwhile our "What can I do to trash Democracy and embarrass America today President" will annoyingly create congestion in downtown Gdansk.....and irritate the residents.
This is the realpolitik of city traffic and a most unpopular President.
From the Press: Antiglobalists announced they will protest during the president’s visit near the residence. They plan to bring signs saying “Welcome to hell” in English. ( Source: Tricity Gazette Poland)
The tri-city police in the metropolis are advising drivers not to use their cars on Friday after midday. Privileged vehicles columns driving through the city, will cause many road closures.
Drivers in Hel (...) will be most affected.
""Give the Devil his due"" I say.
--Craig Johnson--
Labels: Bush, CIA, Gdansk, Hel penninsula, Poland, rendition, thug, visa
June 07, 2007
Bush's Love of Torture: Ethical Equivalents
In the movies we see the German Commandant line up the town villagers. He asks for specific intelligence regarding the commission of a crime. When he does not receive the intel he requires, he then lines up a dozen citizens and shoots them.
Torturing people to the point of psychological collapse is almost an ethical equivalent to the brutality handed out by the Commandant.
If the interrogators, when causing permanent systemic damage to their subjects through sensory deprivation, are fully aware that some or most of these subjects have no actionable intelligence then they are deliberately destroying innocent lives as an official process.
It is at this point that the ethics of the Commandant's decision and Bush's mind set, to employ torture, become one and the same.
A question also arises as to upon who does America employ life destroying torture. Apparently, sub rosa, torturing Arabs and followers of Islam is today acceptable. Perhaps torturing foreign born prison gang leaders might be the next acceptable venue for torture. And next?
--craig johnson--Labels: benumbed citizenry, Bush Admin, CIA, faith based initiatives, intelligence, sensory deprivation, thugs, torture
