Freed Guantanamo detainee says U.S. behind his torture

Freed Guantanamo detainee says U.S. behind his torture
politics, war, terrorism, foreign affairs, news media, bias

After reading the whole story one might wonder why Luke Baker and Tim Pearce included the U.S. in the title.

February 23, 2009, by Luke Baker and Tim Pearce

Binyam Mohamed, a British resident held at Guantanamo Bay for more than four years, was released and put on a plane to Britain on Monday and accused the U.S. government of orchestrating his torture.

In his statement, he accused the British government of colluding with foreign governments during his abuse and torture.

“For myself, the very worst moment came when I realized in Morocco that the people who were torturing me were receiving questions and materials from British intelligence,” he said.

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Are some forms of hate acceptable?

So let’s see, is there any problem with these comments?

Kill those fucking Yankees who have been torturing Iraqi captives
Kill those fucking Yankees who ordered them to torture
Kill their daughters, mothers, daughters-in-law and fathers
Kill them all slowly and painfully

These hate filled and violence riddled remarks were uttered by the Korean music star Psy at a 2004 concert.

President Obama and his family attended another Psy performance at the 2012 Christmas in Washington concert in Washington, D.C. Did they leave during or after the event in protest of the hate he is now famous for promoting? No. In fact, the L.A. Times reported the president not only remained at the event, but even gave a speech afterward, without mentioning anything about Psy’s hate filled comments. ABC News reported the president even met Psy and shook his hand.

Now, fast forward just one month. And we find these comments:

Homosexuality “is sin in the eyes of God.”

“And the only way out of a homosexual lifestyle, the only way out of a relationship that has been engrained over years of time, is through the healing power of Jesus,”

These remarks were made in the mid 1990s by Pastor Louie Giglio, who is head of Passion City Church in Georgia. Did President Obama meet Pastor Giglio and shake his hand? Did the president attend an event featuring the pastor? Well, he could have, later this month during the president’s inauguration for his second term. But Pastor Giglio won’t be attending that event any longer.

The pastor was dis-invited to the event after it was brought to public light what he said about homosexuality in the mid 1990s.

Now it seems to me that an administration priding itself on its affinity for diversity and tolerance, and which had no problem with the likes of Psy, should also have no problem with the likes of Pastor Giglio. Apparently, even diversity and tolerance have their limits.

Filed under: anti-war, bias, bigotry, christian, Democrats, discrimination, diversity, hate speech, homosexuality, hypocrisy, ideology, intolerance, left wing, liberalism, political correctness, politics, relativism, tolerance

When fear mongering is alright

Matthews: If Obama Loses in ’12 Conservatives Will Celebrate Death Penalty, Elevate Torture and Punish Gays
October 3, 2011 by Noel Sheppard

An overwhelming majority of Americans currently believe the nation is heading in the wrong direction.

Yet MSNBC’s Chris Matthews told his “Hardball” audience Monday about how wonderful the world will be if President Obama is reelected next year, and warned that a loss for the man that gives him a thrill up his leg would send “Tea Partiers and neocons…celebrating the death penalty, elevating torture, ending environmental protection as we know it, breaking unions, punishing gays, starting more wars, and enacting one more giant tax cut for the rich – or worse”

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MSNBC’s Martin Bashir Blames GOP for Cantaloupe Food Poisoning Deaths
September 30, 2011 by Kyle Drennen

In an outrageous rant during his 3 p.m. ET hour show on MSNBC on Friday, host Martin Bashir actually attempted to blame budget cutting by Republican lawmakers for a deadly outbreak of listeria in cantaloupe: “John Boehner and his Republican majority decided to gut the food safety and inspection service….Cut, cut, cut. Now the results are in. 16 people have lost their lives.”

Bashir went on to blame free market principles in general for the outbreak: “Republicans in Congress talk proudly of their commitment of laissez-faire economics, where government gets out of the way and everything works perfectly. You try telling that to those who ate melon with a side of listeria.”

bias, bigotry, culture, false, fraud, hate speech, hypocrisy, ideology, indoctrination, left wing, liberalism, news media, pandering, philosophy, politics, propaganda, relativism

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Waterboarding Led US to Osama Bin Laden (left-wing media gets it wrong)

Rumsfeld Says Waterboarding Led US to Osama Bin Laden
May 3, 2011 by Gateway Pundit

Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld:

“CIA Director Panetta indicated that one of the individuals who provided important information had in fact been waterboarded… There was some confusion today on some programs, even one on FOX I think, suggesting that I indicated that no one who was waterboarded at Guantanamo provided any information on this. It’s not true. No one was waterboarded at Guantanamo by the US military. In fact no one was waterboarded at Guantanamo period. Three people were waterboarded by the CIA away from Guantanamo and then later were brought to Guantanamo. And, in fact, as you pointed out the information from these individuals was critically important.”

Too bad left wing “news” sources can’t get the facts straight:

Rumsfeld confirms: Waterboarding did not net intelligence that led to bin Laden
May 3, 2011 by Joan McCarter

watch the video here

To get bin Laden, Obama relied on policies he decried
May 3, 2011 by Michael Barone

news media, terrorism, torture, war

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Iran whistleblower died from drug-laden salad

Iran whistleblower died from drug-laden salad
December 2, 2009 by LEE KEATH

CAIRO, Egypt (AP) – A doctor who blew the whistle on the torture of jailed protesters in Iran died of poisoning from an overdose of an anti-hypertension drug in his salad, prosecutors say, fueling opposition fears that he was killed because of what he knew about the abuse.

Investigators are still trying to determine whether his death was a suicide or murder, Tehran’s public prosecutor Abbas Dowlatabadi said, according to the state news agency IRNA.

foreign affairs, government, news, oppression, protests, scandal, torture

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Islamic tradition of honor killings

5 buried alive ‘tradition’ – Pakistani pol
August 30th 2008 by AP

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan – A Pakistani lawmaker defended a decision by northwestern tribesmen to bury five women alive because they wanted to choose their own husbands, telling stunned members of Parliament to spare him their outrage.

“These are centuries-old traditions, and I will continue to defend them,” Israr Ullah Zehri, who represents Baluchistan province, told The Associated Press Saturday.

“Only those who indulge in immoral acts should be afraid.”

The women, three of whom were teenagers, were first shot and then thrown into a ditch.

They were still breathing as mud was shoveled over their bodies, according to media reports, which said their only “crime” was that they wished to marry men of their own choosing.

abuse, extremism, ideology, islam, news, oppression, philosophy, religion, torture, tragedy

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Woman in W.Va. torture case now says she lied
October 22, 2009 by TOM BREEN

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A black woman whose racially charged allegations of horrific abuse helped put several people in prison now says she lied when she alleged she was kidnapped, sexually assaulted and tortured in a ramshackle West Virginia trailer.

West Virginia authorities said in 2007 that Megan Williams, now of Columbus, Ohio, had been stabbed, beaten with sticks, sexually assaulted, doused with hot water, forced to eat animal feces and taunted with racial slurs by seven white men and women. She later said that hot wax was poured on her and that two of her captors had forced to drink their urine.

An unsigned statement released Wednesday by the office of her Columbus lawyer, Byron L. Potts, said simply, “Megan Williams is now recanting her story.” Williams was scheduled to attend a news conference Wednesday in Columbus along with Potts.

<i>Just like the the bogus Duke Lacrosse rape case, rape and race made the story; the facts were irrelevant.</i>

abuse, bias, bigotry, criminal, culture, diversity, false, fraud, hate crime, hate speech, racism, racist, scandal, sex, torture

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ABC and NBC Resist Vindicating Cheney, But Hayes Finds Proof EIT’s ‘Effective’
August 25, 2009 by Brent Baker

ABC’s Brian Ross and NBC’s Andrea Mitchell on Tuesday night each listed some al Qaeda plots uncovered via CIA interrogations, but both balked when it came to vindicating former Vice President Dick Cheney on whether “enhanced interrogation techniques” (EITs) led to information which prevented attacks.

“Nowhere in the reports…does the CIA ever draw a direct connection between the valuable information and the specific use of harsh tactics,” Ross declared on World News in citing reports Cheney requested be released. NBC’s Andrea Mitchell cited only Khalid Sheikh Mohammad and related how “administration officials say there is no way to know whether the same information could have be obtained from him without waterboarding or whether he would have given it up sooner had he been handled differently.”

On FNC, however, The Weekly Standard’s Steve Hayes, quoting from the just-released 2004 report by CIA Inspector General John Helgerson, pointed out how even it noted regarding Abd al Rahim al Nashiri, the terrorist behind the USS Cole attack, “following the use of EIT’s, he provided information about his most current operational planning as opposed to the historical information he provided before the use of the EIT’s.” Hayes asserted: “I mean, it doesn’t get clearer than that. So we can debate the morality, we can debate whether this was torture. We can’t debate any longer about whether this was effective.”

news media, bias, liberalism, left wing, pandering, propaganda, war, terrorism, torture, scandal,

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Morning Bell: The Left’s War On The CIA
August 25th, 2009 by The Heritage Foundation

Special Prosecutor to Probe CIA Interrogations
August 24, 2009 by Fox News

Attorney General Eric Holder appointed a special prosecutor to examine allegations that terror suspects were abused at the hands of their CIA interrogators.

Eric Holder CIA Investigation Announcement Unleashes Kossack Political Bloodlust
August 25, 2009 by P.J. Gladnick

Liberals in the mainstream media may publicly pretend that the appointment of a prosecutor to investigate so-called torture in the CIA is non-political but to the members of the Daily Kos it is all about politics.

The politics of revenge.

On the heels of the Eric Holder Justice Department dropping a voter intimidation case against members of the New Black Panther Party for threatening voters with billy clubs in Philadelphia, it was announced yesterday that Holder will appoint a prosecutor to investigate the CIA over the loud protests of that agency’s director, Leon Panetta.

Despite the public pretenses of many liberals that the investigation has nothing to do with politics, the crazed bloodlust comments at the Daily Kos shows it has everything to do with politics…and revenge:

war, terrorism, government, abuse, oppression, liberalism, left wing, Democrats, pandering, hypocrisy, corruption,

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5 freedoms you’d lose in health care reform

5 freedoms you’d lose in health care reform
July 24, 2009 by Shawn Tully

If you read the fine print in the Congressional plans, you’ll find that a lot of cherished aspects of the current system would disappear.

NEW YORK (Fortune) — In promoting his health-care agenda, President Obama has repeatedly reassured Americans that they can keep their existing health plans — and that the benefits and access they prize will be enhanced through reform.

A close reading of the two main bills, one backed by Democrats in the House and the other issued by Sen. Edward Kennedy’s Health committee, contradict the President’s assurances. To be sure, it isn’t easy to comb through their 2,000 pages of tortured legal language. But page by page, the bills reveal a web of restrictions, fines, and mandates that would radically change your health-care coverage.

If you prize choosing your own cardiologist or urologist under your company’s Preferred Provider Organization plan (PPO), if your employer rewards your non-smoking, healthy lifestyle with reduced premiums, if you love the bargain Health Savings Account (HSA) that insures you just for the essentials, or if you simply take comfort in the freedom to spend your own money for a policy that covers the newest drugs and diagnostic tests — you may be shocked to learn that you could lose all of those good things under the rules proposed in the two bills that herald a health-care revolution.

politics, government, health care, legislation, oppression, elitism, Democrats, liberalism, left wing

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