Truth and the Devil

There’s compensation, then there’s over-compensation:

Not content with merely banning holocaust denial, now they [Germany] are proposing an EU law that would prosecute anyone who denies any claimed genocide, war crime or crime against humanity.

Berlin’s draft EU directive extends the idea of Holocaust denial to the “gross minimisation of genocide out of racist and xenophobic motives”, to include crimes dealt with by the International Criminal Court…
The draft text states: “Each member state shall take the measures necessary to ensure that the following intentional conduct is punishable: ‘publicly condoning, denying or grossly trivialising of crimes of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes as defined in’… the Statute of the ICC.”

Global Warming denial among some conservatives has developed into a conversation with some of the most perverted ethics I can imagine. In an attempt to get out of taking any sort of responsibility for the health of the Earth as a whole, these conservatives have first denied that global warming exists, then denied that it was man-made (i.e. part of a natural cycle), and now are simply denying that we need to actually do anything about it.

Now, I’m not a shill for any political candidate over another, but this video highlights some of the many unsophisticated attacks FOX has brought against Senator Obama recently.

Forgotten victims of the war on drugs:

In the course of researching paramilitary drug raids, I’ve found some pretty disturbing stuff. There was a case where a SWAT officer stepped on a baby’s head while looking for drugs in a drop ceiling. There was one where an 11-year-old boy was shot at point-blank range. Police have broken down doors, screamed obscenities, and held innocent people at gunpoint only to discover that what they thought were marijuana plants were really sunflowers, hibiscus, ragweed, tomatoes, or elderberry bushes. (It’s happened with all five.)

It appears the role of the Bush administration in promoting war instead of peace has reached all new levels.
According to Lawrence Wilkerson, former aide to Colin Powell, Iran approached the US in 2003 to offer to help stabilize Iraq and cut off aid to Hizbullah and Hamas. The subsequent rejection of that offer by Dick Cheney might have led to the election of Mahmud Ahmadinejad as president of Iran, the current boogeyman of the Bush Administration. I’ll let Juan Cole explain:

I want to throw up

It’s not that these people should never have been able to graduate the fifth grade, the part that disturbs me most is the part at the end where they show their undying support for the president. It’s that infectious meme of faith in our dear leader that deeply frightens me.

I don’t think I believe what I just heard. I mean, I know the people at FOX News are mentally deficient, but I guess I shouldn’t be surprised. Some moron was talking about how Barak Obama might compete against Hillary Clinton, and made not to emphasize his middle name, Barak Hussein Obama. And said specifically, “did you know that’s his middle name?”
Of course, he was trying to insinuate something about Obama because he happens to have a similar name to Saddam Hussein. I had a roommate last year whose first name was Osama, but that doesn’t mean he was going to attack New York.
The inanity pervading FOX News never ceases to amaze me.

Related to the recent UCLA student tasing, a man having a complex partial epileptic seizure was tased and beaten with a baton in Oakland. He was then prosecuted for disorderly conduct.

Watch this video, and if you can’t get through it without wanting to kill something, let me know.

Mostafa Tabatabainejad was tased by university police, after he failed to exit the university library quickly enough when he failed to produce the ID that is required of all students using the library after 11. He was tasered once when he didn’t get out quickly enough, and then repeatedly after that for failing to stand up after being tased the first time. Other students who asked the police for their names and badge numbers where threatened with tasing.

My new response to 9/11 conspiracists:
Bush and his cronies conceived and executed the most elaborate conspiracy in the history of our country, killing 3,000 of their own citizens to get themselves into a ridiculous war in Iraq, and they can’t rig an election to keep their own party in power?