very slightly unsorted politics
Jul. 3rd, 2008 12:03 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
solarbirdI do crappy linkblogging, but here it is anyway.
The FBI is working on a new protocol for domestic investigations that throws out crap like "probable cause" and adds profiling, including racial profiling. Yeah, that's what we need. I can't wait for the Democratic party to endorse it as they "move to the centre" for the elections by opposing everything they pretend to stand for and supporting everything they tend to oppose.
Oh look, Christopher Hitchens changes his mind about torture real fast after getting tortured for 17 seconds. At least he's finally admitting waterboarding is torture. Here's video, if you must. He's still having nightmares after the experience. The clown gets it now, at least. And no, I'm not fucking feeling generous towards him, even if he's finally gotten it into his thick head by firsthand experience, and I'm not going to commend him for doing it firsthand, any more than I'd commend an adult for testing out electrocution by sticking a knife in a live electrical main, because any jackass willing to look at reality wouldn't have fucking needed to get waterboarded to realise that torture isn't about truth, it's about torture. It's about fucking people up and about getting them to say whatever the hell you want them to say. Hitch gets that now. Good. Fuckhead took long enough.
The meme against those of us protesting Senator Obama reversal on and the Democratic Party's support for retroactive immunity for telecom lawbreaking, warrantless spying on Americans, and the destruction of the 4th Amendment is that we're upset "that Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill) is trying to win the 2008 presidential election." Fuck that. I'd take it apart but Greenwald has done it for you, go read him.
The FBI is working on a new protocol for domestic investigations that throws out crap like "probable cause" and adds profiling, including racial profiling. Yeah, that's what we need. I can't wait for the Democratic party to endorse it as they "move to the centre" for the elections by opposing everything they pretend to stand for and supporting everything they tend to oppose.
Oh look, Christopher Hitchens changes his mind about torture real fast after getting tortured for 17 seconds. At least he's finally admitting waterboarding is torture. Here's video, if you must. He's still having nightmares after the experience. The clown gets it now, at least. And no, I'm not fucking feeling generous towards him, even if he's finally gotten it into his thick head by firsthand experience, and I'm not going to commend him for doing it firsthand, any more than I'd commend an adult for testing out electrocution by sticking a knife in a live electrical main, because any jackass willing to look at reality wouldn't have fucking needed to get waterboarded to realise that torture isn't about truth, it's about torture. It's about fucking people up and about getting them to say whatever the hell you want them to say. Hitch gets that now. Good. Fuckhead took long enough.
The meme against those of us protesting Senator Obama reversal on and the Democratic Party's support for retroactive immunity for telecom lawbreaking, warrantless spying on Americans, and the destruction of the 4th Amendment is that we're upset "that Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill) is trying to win the 2008 presidential election." Fuck that. I'd take it apart but Greenwald has done it for you, go read him.
