At a Holocaust Remembrance Day at the Capitol on Thursday, President Obama called for “fighting the silence that is evil’s greatest co-conspirator.” On the same day, Obama decided to oppose creation of a truth commission to vigorously investigate and expose U.S. torture crimes. This is another of those damn paradoxes of which Washington is full […]
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Bullseye on Fascism & Torture
Last week, conservatives were complaining Obama was establishing a socialistic fascist dictatorship. This week, conservatives are complaining Obama does not want to torture his opponents. from Talking Points Memo I reckon this is another one of those damn paradoxes Washington is full of. There are plenty of reasons to vigorously oppose Obama’s power grabs (like […]
Obama-Style “Nation of Laws”
Obama proudly declared yesterday that ours is a “nation of laws” at the same time he announced that CIA torturers would not be prosecuted for their crimes. Life in Washington is one damn paradox after another. Kudos to the American Civil Liberties Union for their lawsuit that compelled the disclosure of the torture memos yesterday. […]
Part 2 of “How Abu Ghraib was Politically Defused”
The Future of Freedom Foundation posted online today the second part of my analysis of “How Abu Ghraib was Politically Defused.” It is amazing how little attention was paid to the heap of evidence of torture-as-official-policy until long after Bush snared a second term. Here is a link to a permanent web page with both […]
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 […]
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 […]
Bush Slanders Freedom Again
In a Tuesday interview in Britain, Sky News editor Adam Boulton asked George W. Bush: “There are those who would say look, lets take Guantanamo Bay, and Abu Ghraib, and rendition and all those things and to them that is the complete opposite of freedom.” BUSH: “Of course, if you want to slander America.” This […]
