Archive | August 30, 2008

Flemishly Damned Again?

I much appreciate the Belgian website In Flanders Fields posting the text of the Freeman article on torture.  I was amused at some of the comments, though I’d be prevaricating if I said I was more fluent in Flemish than in Swahili.  Here are the comments the piece has so far generated on this European […]

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Torture & Liberty

This piece from the July issue of The Freeman is now online here (in PDF) and here (in ASCII – paragraph breaks amended slightly in the version below). TORTURE & LIBERTY      Freeman  July 2008 by James Bovard Is torture compatible with liberty? Unfortunately, this is no longer a hypothetical question. Many Americans who claim to […]

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