Seen on the street in Kyiv.

Words of Advice:

"If Something Seems To Be Too Good To Be True, It's Best To Shoot It, Just In Case." -- Fiona Glenanne

“The Mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -- The TOFF *

"Foreign Relations Boil Down to Two Things: Talking With People or Killing Them." -- Unknown

“Speed is a poor substitute for accuracy.” -- Real, no-shit, fortune from a fortune cookie

"If you believe that you are talking to G-d, you can justify anything.” — my Dad

"Colt .45s; putting bad guys in the ground since 1873." -- Unknown

"Stay Strapped or Get Clapped." -- probably not Mr. Rogers

"The Dildo of Karma rarely comes lubed." -- Unknown

"Eck!" -- George the Cat

* "TOFF" = Treasonous Orange Fat Fuck, A/K/A Dolt-45,
A/K/A Commandante (or Cadet) Bone Spurs,
A/K/A El Caudillo de Mar-a-Lago, A/K/A the Asset., A/K/A P01135809

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Somewhere, Dick Cheney Is Laughing

Someone want to remind me that Dick Cheney isn't still running things? For it sure seems that way at times:
President Obama on Monday reversed his two-year-old order halting new military charges against detainees at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, permitting military trials to resume with revamped procedures but implicitly admitting the failure of his pledge to close the prison camp.
If we are not going to do the hard work to live up to our national claim to be "a nation of laws," then that has to apply for the most despicable and hateful of defendants. Right now, we have a system where some faceless fascist in the Administration can claim that someone is a terrorist and they can be thrown into prison in Guantanamo Bay for a decade or longer without any meaningful judicial review.

Doesn't matter if you're an American citizen. They will hold you in a military brig, without charges, access to counsel or visitors, for years.

If you only have rights when it is convenient for the government to let you exercise them, then you have no rights.

4 comments:

Justin Buist said...

This was, honestly, the one thing I really thought that Obama would fix when he took office.

Comrade Misfit said...

Between this and his 'we aren't going to look back at any abuses or war cries", I'm pretty disappointed with ol' Barry.

No way I'm voting for Willard Romney, but I'm not going to mark my ballot with any great hope or joy next year.

Gulliver said...

Any ideas why your blog is sending 4-6 incoming links to mine on every new post? I can't figure it out.

Nangleator said...

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