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As cynical as I have become about politics, this one surprises even me. I never would have thought that John McCain would vote this way on torture. Disgusting.
Arianna Huffington: John McCain Sells His Soul to the Right: Backs Off on Torture Ban - Politics on The Huffington Post
Has there ever been a more repugnant example [...]

Some recent media items on Jehovah’s Witnesses:
Surviving a JW Sadist
Alloma Gilbert has published an article - an excerpt from her upcoming book Deliver Me From Evil (March 2008) - on how she survived being starved, beaten and tortured by her Jehovah’s Witness foster mother Eunice Spry (see also the post Sadistic Foster Mom a Devout [...]

Just some things that caught my eye…

The 5 Most Horrifying Bugs in the World | Cracked.com

Why We Flirt | Time

Top 5 things I saw in America which, as a Canadian, freaked me right out | Paulitics
Congressman calls hearing after White House report shows 473 days of email ‘missing’ | Raw Story
Bush’s Contempt for the Law [...]

I received an email today from Senator Saxby Chambliss, and I’m posting both his communication and my own.
Dear Ms. N: Thank you for contacting me regarding the National Security Agency’s (NSA) monitoring of conversations connected to terrorist activity and the treatment of military detainees. It is good to hear from you.
I certainly understand [...]

William Glaberson reports that defense attorneys representing a 21-year-old being held prisoner at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, “have been ordered by a military judge not to tell their client - or anyone else - the identity of witnesses against him” in the prisoner’s upcoming war crimes trial.
Attorneys point out that this “would hamper their ability to [...]

It grieves me that it could possibly be necessary to argue to an American - much less an American veteran - that torture undermines everything that we would like to think we stand for…
1992 U.S. Army Interrogation Field Manual 34-52 states: “Experience indicates that the use of prohibited techniques is not necessary to gain the [...]

It’s wrong. It’s anti-American. It doesn’t even work.

Tell Congress to Take Torture off the Table
Congress needs to send a clear message to the Bush administration: cruel interrogation techniques – including mock execution, forced nakedness and induced hypothermia – are morally wrong and have to stop.
Important legislation that sets one humane standard for ALL government agencies [...]