www.thornwalker.com/ditch/dtw_blacksburg_notes.htm
To Mr. Wright's article.
NOTES
2. It's ironic that Gonzales may well be forced to resign for
this sort of piddly thing, while getting away scot free for:
• His written
opinion renouncing the Geneva Convention's provisions
against the abuse of civilian populations in occupied
territories as "quaint" and obsolete;
• His horrifying
declaration that torture isn't really torture unless it results in
death or pain equal to the destruction of a major organ;
• His blessing on
imprisoning U.S. citizens without warrants or charges and
without habeas corpus; or
• His carrying out
of illegal warrantless wiretapping, apparently against
political enemies of the Bush Regime. And then lying about
it to Congress.
Gonzales has been Bush's facilitator for the biggest single
assault on what's left of the Constitution since Franklin
"Court Packer" Roosevelt.
3. For a small glimpse of the horror, take a look at a piece by
Greg Mitchell of Editor & Publisher, "Sorry We Shot Your Kid, but Here's
$500," which details the penny-pinching of the Imperial
Legions in "compensating" Iraqis for the deaths of their
loved ones at the hands of U.S. troops.
4. Apparently, the "gun lobby" is much more fearsome than
the lobby of a certain Gallant Ally of ours in the Middle East.
At least, one could get that impression from comparing the
respective numbers of stories and the general level of tsk-tsking about each in Minitrue's organs.
5. The best thing to come out of the Imus non-issue was the
injury of the governor of New Jersey in a car accident. Jon
Corzine was speeding in an SUV driven by a state trooper, on
his way to facilitate a groveling apology by Imus to the
offended Rutgers women's basketball team. The gov's SUV
was forced off the road at over 90 mph when some hapless
peasant accidentally got in the way.
The governor wound up with a broken leg, 12 cracked ribs, a
busted sternum, and a fractured vertebra. Why all the
damage? Because he wasn't wearing his seat belt.
Isn't that enough to get him impeached nowadays?
Meanwhile, the New Jersey state cops — infamous for
their persecution of ordinary motorists infringing the speed
limits and seat-belt laws — still insist that careening
along public highways at breakneck speeds, scattering
taxpayers right and left, is the best way to keep His Lordship
safe. I swear, you couldn't make this stuff up.
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page from off site?
1. When the Walter Reed scandal hit the fan, there were lots
of crocodile tears on the part of Bush and his allies, some
high-profile firings, and the usual pledges to see to it that
"our boys" get the best care possible, and so blah. But the
truth was revealed in a story in
Salon by Mark Benjamin, who revealed how many
injured soldiers and those suffering from post-traumatic
stress disorder — known as "shell shock" or "battle
fatigue" in earlier wars — were ruthlessly being shipped
back to the Iraqi maelstrom, with little concern about their
well-being or the safety of their fellow legionaries forced to
deal with their deficiencies.
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