Archive for April 7th, 2008

Are the People of a Nation Responsible for the Actions of its Government?

April 7, 2008 in Civil Liberties, Discriminatory Voting Laws, Due Process, Free and Fair Elections, Uncategorized, Unitary Executive, or MONARCHY

I have known many people who say they don’t like Germans, unable to forgive even the descendants of the people who allowed the holocaust to happen. Is that silly, or is it completely understandable, given the enormity of the crimes against humanity committed by that nation ASK YOURSELF: Do you believe that the people of [...]

How the United States of America came to Torture

April 7, 2008 in Cruel and Unusual Punishment, Torture
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Vanity Fair published an article this month by Philippe Sands about how torture came to be the policy of the United States of America. Tearing apart the Bush Administration’s lies that atrocities were isolated acts by “a few bad apples” and that “enhanced interrogation” was given limited approval as a result of requests from interrogators, [...]

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