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If tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. Of all the enemies to public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes; and armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few. – James Madison
I agree to this Constitution with all its faults because I think a general government necessary for us, and believe further that this is likely to be well-administered for a course of years, and can only end in despotism, as other forms have done before it, when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other. -- Benjamin Franklin
If you were free of self interest... and very few of us can make that claim... the world would look like a seething madhouse of runaway appetites. -- les visible
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Obama Signals Move to Save Bush Bigwigs on Torture »
Posted by: 8 months, 1 week ago in Political News
So what has happened so far? After his groveling trip on Monday to soothe the hurt feelings of the tender little babies at the CIA ...
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More UK torture collusion claims »
Posted by: 8 months, 1 week ago in News
Up to 17 British intelligence officers allegedly colluded in the rendition and torture of seven former Guantanamo Bay detainees, the High Court has heard.
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The Supreme Court takes failing to get it to a new level in a strip-search case. - By Dahlia Lithwick »
Posted by: 8 months, 1 week ago in News
When constitutional historians sit down someday to compile the definitive Supreme Court Concordance of Not Getting It , the entry directly next to Lilly Ledbetter ("Court ...
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Are Members of Congress (and Maybe Even the President) Being Blackmailed? »
Posted by: 8 months, 1 week ago in Political News
For some time now, many Americans have wondered how Congress, the elected body that the nation’s Founding Fathers saw as the bulwark of liberty ...
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DOJ Sits on Secret CIA Interrogation Memo »
Posted by: 8 months, 1 week ago in News
The still-unreleased Office of Legal Counsel memo spelled out for the CIA what interrogation practices were considered lawful after President Bush issued an executive order ...
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We Don't Torture »
Posted by: 8 months, 2 weeks ago in Political News
No one is upset about the fact that America tortures, they're just upset that they now know about it.
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Legal experts want more from Obama on Guantanamo »
Posted by: 8 months, 2 weeks ago in News
Whether there is a role for the International Court of Justice in prosecuting terrorism suspects from Guantanamo or other U.S.-run detention facilities remains ...
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How I (Finally) Met Leonard Cohen »
Posted by: 8 months, 2 weeks ago in Arts & Entertainment
I n 1966, when I was fifteen years old, I saw Leonard Cohen sing “The Stranger Song” on Canadian television. Not long afterwards, I took ...
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SKorea calls meeting before rare NKorea talks »
Posted by: 8 months, 2 weeks ago in News
South Korea's president called a special meeting of security ministers Monday, one day before his government holds its first official talks with North Korea ...
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YouTube - Bodhisattva in metro »
Posted by: 8 months, 2 weeks ago in Humor
Seven minutes on public transit.
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CIA fears torture prosecutions - Times Online »
Posted by: 8 months, 2 weeks ago in News
THE CIA fears some of its operatives could face prosecution for torturing high-level terrorist suspects, despite President Barack Obama’s promise of legal immunity.
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General Taguba: Accountability for Torture Does Not Stop at White House Door »
Posted by: 8 months, 2 weeks ago in News
"Abu Ghraib emerged from a structure developed by senior officials in the Bush White House and by those who thought it was necessary to blindly ...
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Wiretap Recorded Rep. Harman Promising to Intervene for AIPAC »
Posted by: 8 months, 2 weeks ago in News
Rep. Jane Harman, the California Democrat with a longtime involvement in intelligence issues, was overheard on an NSA wiretap telling a suspected Israeli agent that ...
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MPs to examine G20 police tactics as new claims emerge »
Posted by: 8 months, 2 weeks ago in News
The policing of the G20 protests will be scrutinised by two influential parliamentary committees this week as the continuing fallout from the death of Ian ...
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China quake survivors still wait for word »
Posted by: 8 months, 2 weeks ago in News
In the 11 months since China's devastating earthquake, Wang Tingzhang and his wife have been transformed from docile, law-abiding citizens into defiant troublemakers, at ...
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