Well…we have had evidence over the past year that every damn one of the cretins in the idiot trump’s administration are terrible people, and yesterday there was more evidence piled on the stinking heap that is this WH. During the hearings in the Senate for a new CIA director, (the nominee being Gina Haspel, who ran a black site in Asia where prisoners were tortured and who then destroyed the tapes of the torture to get rid of the evidence of war crimes) John McCain made the comment that Haspel is morally unfit for the office since she did and still does support torturing…and this elicited a comment from a special WH assistant Kelly Sadler in a meeting yesterday morning…and it is just sick…”It doesn’t matter, he’s dying anyway”….now I’m not a big fan of McCain, as you’ve read here but there is such a thing as common decency that does not exist for this WH and the denizens who reside in this swamp….there is a moral imperative that was destroyed by the torturers in the GW Bush administration and we need to get back to it…we do not torture…it’s that damn simple….and if the nominee for the CIA director can’t make that simple promise, she needs to go…geez….
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Angela Merkel schools the idiot trump…
Well…in a phone call either yesterday or today, the president of Germany, Angela Merkel, schooled the idiot trump on the Geneva conventions against torture…she actually had to explain to him what the hell they were…he is so damn ignorant and stupid that he didn’t know that they are binding on the US and can lead to the people ordering it being jailed….and, there was a not so veiled threat that Germany would lead the way in prosecuting torturers if it happens again….so, again the idiot shows just how stupid he is and we all can see how he is damaging this country and our standing in the world…and all of this in just one week….where are you, repubs? When does the impeachment start?
Ferguson…again…
Well…have been reading of the process that went on in the grand jury for the Ferguson case and this bombshell was just dropped…one of the star witnesses…the so called witness 40….the one who has been quoted by fox news as the credible one that backed up the officer’s story exactly? Yeah, that one…the one that the prosecutor knew was lying and let her testify anyway? The one that perjured herself over 100 times in her testimony? Yep, that one again…and the fact that the prosecutor knew she was never at the scene and all of her testimony was fake is against so many laws that the prosecutor may have to be charged with crimes of his own. At the very least, there needs to be a special prosecutor and a new grand jury convened to make sure justice is served…and these types wonder why there is less and less respect for the law….that cops get to shoot unarmed people and get away with it…that the banksters get to crash the economy and steal billions and get away with it…and the torturers and their bosses torture and kill innocent people and get away with it…that is why I have less respect for the law…there is supposed to be equal treatment for all…I guess it’s like the description in “Animal Farm” …”everyone is equal but pigs are just a little more equal than others…” geez…
I am appalled….
Well…I have never been so appalled at any administration as I was today when I read that Holder will not use any of the new evidence that came out of the senate investigation to hold anyone accountable for these violations of both US and international law. I am doubly appalled at his reasoning that goes right back to the “I was just following orders” that he Nazis tried to use at Nuremburg…his new take is that if there was a memo written by basically anyone that said that torture was legal, then no one can be held accountable…this right here is enough to have him fired or tried himself under international law and treaties and I fault Obama and this misguided policy for the continued ruining of the US’s standing in the world….I just hope that some other country will take up the cause and charge any one of these idiots that ordered torture…I talking about you Bush and Cheney and then arrest them when they enter their countries, which is perfectly legal under international treaties that the US has signed. I am speechless that the rot of the Bush years has been allowed to continue…this country is finished….and I mourn for it…
Torture….
Well…not sure if you’ve seen it yet, but the senate report on torture is out and it is not pretty…one of the biggest takeaways from the summary is that Dick Cheney is the biggest damn liar in the US and should be in jail for his part in building the torture regime. But, I said that a long time ago…that he committed multiple felonies that should have put him in the dock at the war crimes trials at the Hague…where his cellmate should be ole GW. One of the most egregious lies that ole Dick has been pushing for 10 years now is that the country was kept safe by information gained by torture…that is just not true…has never been true…and will never be true but those on the right still believe it, still parrot that zombie lie that has been debunked too many times to mention here. Every expert in interrogation has said that the only thing you get from torture is what you want to hear…and given ole Dick’s hand in fabrication of the “evidence” that took us to war, I could easily believe that torture was just part of his plan to gin up “facts” that would support their goal of war in Iraq. I have had enough of these folks…they have stained this country beyond repair and then just sit there smugly saying they were right…when they were completely wrong about everything…geez…
The cockroach returns…
Well…my gag reflex is getting a real workout today with the hoopla around the opening of the ole GW library in Texas today and the idea that this moronic, lying, torturing, murderer is being feted as anything more than the abject failure that he was and still is, should turn the stomach of we Americans who understand and love the rule of law. No other president in history has presided over greater destruction of the US’s standing in the world and the fact that, when interviewed this morning, this idiot said he would do nothing different just shows he has the dept of a moron and truly believes the lies he and his cronies foisted on the nation….and he is still spouting the disproven nonsense that his approval of torture led to the apprehension of OBL and other terrorists. Since when do we celebrate failure in this country by building a propaganda hole that perpetuates lies and deception? I hope this idiot goes back to wherever the hell he has been the past four years…or, for that matter, goes to the Hague to be prosecuted for the war crimes he and his cronies perpetrated on the world….geez…
I’ve lost my faith…
Well…this is one that I hoped I didn’t have to write, but I have completely lost faith in the Obama administration…not only for how he caves in to all of the threats by the repubs on taxes,DADT, and all manner of other issues, but this law professor, this person that should know and understand that the rule of law is the only thing that makes a civilized society, has seen fit to abrogate our international obligations, too. It has recently come to light that when Spain, and many other nations that have signed the treaty against torture, wanted to indict the architects of these abhorrent policies, Obama leaned on them and threatened them with diplomatic consequences if they went forward. All in the name of politics…but breaking the law and punishment for it is supposed to be outside of politics; everyone is subject to the law whether they are a beggar or a president. Where is your respect for the law Mr. Obama? You are supposed to uphold the constitution and you have failed miserably in your primary duty to do that…you are now breaking the law by not prosecuting these individuals; and I hope there are consequences for this terrible, cynical reaction to this destruction of America’s standing in the world. Geez….
The noose is closing…
Well…an interesting day in the news yesterday and Ole GW should start sweating a little…if you didn’t hear, the mayor of London issued a warning to GW about any idea for a book tour that would include Europe…with the victory tour to support his new book, the idiot has gone on record with Matt Lauer of NBC and even in the book that he authorized torture…the waterboarding of a couple of prisoners over 100 times when waterboarding is torture in both international treaties that the US has signed, and in a 1994 US law that makes it a felony to approve or participate in torture. This moron thinks that just because his hand-picked lawyers said it was okay to torture, that he is protected by the law…when it is clear in the treaties that there is no hiding behind lawyers; as Augusto Pinochet discovered when he was arrested for approving torture and murder in Chile, as he traveled to Europe for medical care. Now, the outcry to hold Bush and Cheney responsible is rising across Europe and Canada as a result of the decision of Obama to not investigate or prosecute these clear violations of the law…this lack of commitment to uphold our international obligations is another black eye on the Obama administration and on us, the people of America and have further destroyed our moral standing in the world.
I hope both Bush and Cheney decide to flaunt their lawbreaking by traveling to one of the countries that is a signatory to these international laws against torture….they deserve to be prosecuted for their role in the torture and the ruination of our country’s traditional role as the leader on human rights….we are supposed to be a nation of laws and we used to be…now, we are a society that Orwell described in “Animal Farm”…that everyone’s equal…but some are more equal than others…
It will be a shame if we have to be taught our obligations to the world by Europe and Canada…geez…
If it sounds like I take this stuff personally, you’re right…