Mumia Abu-Jamal -- Iran...Voices Of War?

The 'Good Germans' Among Us
By FRANK RICH
10/14/07 "New York Times" -- - -"BUSH lies" doesn't cut it anymore. It's time to confront the darker reality that we are lying to ourselves.

Ten days ago The Times unearthed yet another round of secret Department of Justice memos countenancing torture. President Bush gave his standard response: "This government does not torture people." Of course, it all depends on what the meaning of "torture" is. The whole point of these memos is to repeatedly recalibrate the definition so Mr. Bush can keep pleading innocent.

By any legal standards except those rubber-stamped by Alberto Gonzales, we are practicing torture, and we have known we are doing so ever since photographic proof emerged from Abu Ghraib more than three years ago. As Andrew Sullivan, once a Bush cheerleader, observed last weekend in The Sunday Times of London, America's "enhanced interrogation" techniques have a grotesque provenance: "Verschärfte Vernehmung, enhanced or intensified interrogation, was the exact term innovated by the Gestapo to describe what became known as the 'third degree.' It left no marks. It included hypothermia, stress positions and long-time sleep deprivation."

Still, the drill remains the same. The administration gives its alibi (Abu Ghraib was just a few bad apples). A few members of Congress squawk. The debate is labeled "politics." We turn the page.

There has been scarcely more response to the similarly recurrent story of apparent war crimes committed by our contractors in Iraq. Call me cynical, but when Laura Bush spoke up last week about the human rights atrocities in Burma, it seemed less an act of selfless humanitarianism than another administration maneuver to change the subject from its own abuses.

As Mrs. Bush spoke, two women, both Armenian Christians, were gunned down in Baghdad by contractors underwritten by American taxpayers. On this matter, the White House has been silent. That incident followed the Sept. 16 massacre in Baghdad's Nisour Square, where 17 Iraqis were killed by security forces from Blackwater USA, which had already been implicated in nearly 200 other shooting incidents since 2005. There has been no accountability. The State Department, Blackwater's sugar daddy for most of its billion dollars in contracts, won't even share its investigative findings with the United States military and the Iraqi government, both of which have deemed the killings criminal.

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[AbtinX]

you should fight it yourself instead of "supporting" it like a coward, come to iran then you will be welcomed warmly :)

[fuckbigbrother]

free Mumia

no war with Iran

Obama president

[Pat9201]

i love how ppl make it sound like white cops march down the street shooting any minority they see while the poor black people are just trying to help little old ladys accross the street...lol

[moorishbelle]

@Pat9201 ...or Vice Versa.

[Pat9201]

@moorishbelle i think you have read into this alittle far...lol

[moorishbelle]

@Pat9201 Plus, it's not the Cops Job to Decide who's Guilty. That's the Legislatures and Courts Job. Police Officers are on the Very Periphery of the Court System. They're the Foot Soldiers...VERY Small Players in a Big Game. There's No Denying that Racial/Cultural Dynamics are in Play when You Have White Cops and Ideologically Assmilated Racial Minorities Patrolling Latino, African, African American, and low income Asian Neighborhoods.

[moorishbelle]

@Pat9201 Are you saying Cops Murder People who Look Guilty? Little confused, are You Making a Statement or Asking a Question? Whichever to Kill Someone b/c They 'Look' Guilty is Unjust.  And I'm Sure the People who Cops Perceive as Deviant are dark-skinned people (Black and Brown). ...Racially Profiling.

[Pat9201]

@moorishbelle ppl who look guilty?

[moorishbelle]

@ptsmmrs ...And Cops Frequently Murder People who Look Like Mumia.

[moorishbelle]

@ericproberts The Jury was Definitely Not a Jury of Mumia's "Peers". Moreover, There's no Denying that the United States "Justice" System has a History of Injustice. Your Call for "Justice!!" Seems to be a Bit Bias and Seemingly Clothed in Ignorance, as well as Unoriginal. It's Super Important to Read and Study the Facts Free of Bias, Subjectivity, and Influences of Racial and Cultural Socialization.

[ericproberts]

I wish we'd fry that cop murdering dog and stop giving him celebrity status. Remember, 12 jurors were convinced he was guilty, it wasn't some government conspiracy. Just because you're on death row doesn't mean you're some sort of genius. The guy's a slow talking idiot. Ride the lightning! The sooner the better for all mankind. Justice!!