eric | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 06 2007 | news, torture, Guy Fawkes, London
Harper's has posted a piece about Guy Fawkes and explains three lessons we should take from his plot to blow up Parliament:
1) Torture never works and is always wrong
2) Beware the government that rules by fear
3) A government that stereotypes is unjustQuoted: Today Guy Fawkes is increasingly viewed as the heroic figure prepared to stand against an unjust and oppressive state, as a martyr and a victim of torture. What are the lessons of Guy Fawkes Day for 2007?
- eric | Shared With: Everyone - Jan 02 2008 | news, iraq, terrorism, torture
The Bush torture legacy explained and expounded.
eric | Shared With: Everyone - Dec 08 2005 | Condoleezza Rice, torture, International, Iraq, war on terror, news
My favorite quote from the piece: "Rice's legal interpretations were authoritative, bland and bogus. It is hard to say whether they should be called Orwellian for their intentional falsity or Kafkaesque for their unintentional absurdity."
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eric | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 13 2005 | torture, jurisprudence, best of, 2003, news
As promised, this is the Mark Bowden article from "The Atlantic Monthly." Articles like this one are what encourage me to keep my subscription active. Just looking over it again, it's amazing how predictive it actually is of the scenario today (see the quote below).
Quoted: The most effective way to gather intelligence and thwart terrorism can also be a direct route into morally repugnant terrain. A survey of the landscape of persuasion
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