American Ju$tice – The Mario Reyes Story

by Scott Creighton
Years ago I got a DUI in Florida.
I was coming home from dinner at around 9pm, had beer with my meal, cop followed me out of restaurant parking lot for 2 miles, finally pulled me over for a tail-light being out. According to the cop, I had committed no moving violations. Passed all [...]

Enhanced Interrogation Technique 101 – Sodomize Children in Front of Mothers

by Scott Creighton
Seymore Hersh reported, too little fan-fare years ago, that raping a young Iraqi boy in front of his mother was just one horrible thing on one of these “enhanced interrogation” videos.
He said he had seen all the Abu Ghraib pictures. He said, ‘You haven’t begun to see evil…’ then trailed off. He said, [...]

Obama Is Said to Consider Preventive Detention Plan

by S.G. Stolberg, New York Times
President Obama told human rights advocates at the White House on Wednesday that he was mulling the need for a “preventive detention” system that would establish a legal basis for the United States to incarcerate terrorism suspects who are deemed a threat to national security but cannot be tried, two [...]

The definition of a “two-tiered justice system”

by Glenn Greenwald
Aside from the intrinsic dangers and injustices of arguing for immunity for high-level government officials who commit felonies (such as illegal eavesdropping, obstruction of justice, torture and other war crimes), it’s the total selectivity of the rationale underlying that case which makes it so corrupt.  Defenders of Bush officials sing in unison:  We shouldn’t [...]