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Wednesday 16th June 2010
Obama Administration: Don’t Question Sincerity of Torturers
1:58 pm | Attention Deficit Democracy | Supreme Court | Torture | Comments: 9
The Supreme Court disgraced itself on Monday by torpedoing the appeal of Maher Arar, the Canadian who was kidnapped at John F. Kennedy International Airport and sent by the U.S. government to Syria for torturing.
The Canadian government has publicly apologized to Arar for providing false information to the U.S. government about Arar’s suspicious connections. [...]
Monday 9th November 2009
Torture Update: Andy Worthington’s Excellent New Film
10:42 am | Central Intelligence Agency | Cheney | Rule of Law | Supreme Court | Torture | War crimes | Comments: 0
Andy Worthington, the author of The Guantanamo Files, is touring the U.S. with his excellent new film, “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo.†He will be in California later this week. Tour schedule is here.
“Outside the Law” does a fine job of blending the legal issues and personal details to burn [...]
Wednesday 18th January 2006
My Pot Ruling Bash
2:01 pm | Supreme Court | dictatorship | marijuana | think tanks | Comments: 0
The Future of Freedom Foundation posted my article on the Supreme Court ruling on medical marijuana.
The articles begins -
Earlier this year [2005], the Supreme Court, acting again like a gang that smoked too much bad weed, ruled that the federal government has the right to prohibit people from growing marijuana for medicinal purposes. The Court relied [...]