The “What They Say -vs- What They Do” Edition

Send a trackback, or leave a comment, and ponder the simple fact that you can justify anything with the right sort of spin; as balbulican has been known to say on occasion, “a turd wrapped in tinfoil is still just a tinfoil-wrapped turd” — and torture, regardless of how you wrap it up, is still torture.

I cannot help but find Stephen Harper’s comments regarding a boycott of the Beijing Olympics more than a tad hypocritical. Why are these athletes so much more important than oppressed and poor people in countries led by tin pot dictators who we do support imposing boycotts on?

Nothing happened, these 24 women and children cowering in a bedroom probably “cleared” themselves, move along, the official record will show that nothing happened here.

So the Prime Minister of a country that throws people in jail without trial or allowing them to confront or defend themselves against their accuser(s) or the evidence against them calls the President of another country to complain about a citizen being thrown into their jail and held indefinitely without trial - is Monty Python working in the PMO now?

Subtitled: Doing What We Pretend Not To Believe In

And then September 11th happened and I began to hear new words like “towel head” and “camel jockey” and the most disturbing “sand nigger”, and these words did not initially come from my fellow soldiers but from my superiors, my Platoon Sargent, my company First Sargent, Battalion Commander, all the way up the chain of command, these terms, these viciously racist terms were suddenly acceptable.

Bernard Kouchner, the foreign minister of France and a longtime humanitarian, diplomatic and political activist on the international scene, says that whoever succeeds President George W. Bush may restore something of the United States’ battered image and standing overseas, but that “the magic is over.”

Canada’s Federal Court has rejected Amnesty International’s bid to have the Charter of Rights and Freedoms apply to Afghan detainees captured by Canadian soldiers.

We don’t torture because that would be illegal.

Send a trackback, leave a comment, and think about how it’s gonna look when Iraq war veterans from America open up and talk about war crimes.

When people willingly and knowingly commit violent, or other, human rights atrocities they should not look for either sympathy or understanding from society at large - they are the authors of their own misfortune and hold ultimate responsibility for the demons that come to haunt them.

– doesn’t Israel want Palestine recognized as a state?

They exposed their backsides and sexual organs to Palestinians, pressed an electric heater to the face of a young boy, beat young boys senseless, recorded everything on their mobile phones and sent it to their friends. One of their “mischievous acts” was to test how long a Palestinian who was being choked could survive without breathing. When he passed out, the experiment was stopped. The soldiers described activities to “break the routine” that consisted entirely of abuse. It was enough for a boy “to look at us the wrong way” for him to be beaten.

President Bush to veto torture Bill: “The United States needs the ability to interrogate effectively, within the law, captured al-Qaeda terrorists.”

In one post, because I don’t have a lot of time today.

How’s that for a statement - now, let me explain it.