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• • 18 Dec 07
  • 4:39 pm

  I guess no torturers see themselves as monsters. Huh, wolf? Anyway, there's a very clear, very precise, and very legally binding line here that has been crossed. Torture is a crime, punishable by 20 years incarceration, and the death penalty if the victim dies. The 1996 war crimes act codifies this. The 2000 torture act codifies this. The Geneva Conventions codified this. The US Constitution codified this more than 200 years ago! Amendment 8: Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted. News Flash to "wolf" Torture is both cruel and unusual, you …

  Posted to The Boy Who Cried WMD

• • 17 Sep 07
  • 5:43 pm

  "Readallsides" is only interested in smearing Dr. Finkelstein, and not interested in Finkelstein's "side" whatsoever. The "nutjob" has exposed the constant stream of Zionist lies, such as those regularly appearing on your reactionary "Frontpage" magazine, home of neocon lunatics, and armchair war criminals. Apparently, he/she's one of them. Crimes of the State Blog

  Posted to Smearing Israel's Critics

• • 16 Jul 07
  • 4:18 pm

  CHENEY BEHIND 9/11 If you don't understand the significance of the numerous War Games all occurring simultaneously on the morning of September 11th 2001, then you are in need of an education. There's a reason that Dick Cheney has lied to the 9/11 Commission about the time he arrived in the Presidential Emergency Operations Center (PEOC), and that his testimony is contradicted by Norman Mineta, the Secretary of Transportation, and Richard Clarke, the anti-terrorism chief. Cheney's role was to insure the plane would hit the Pentagon, thus giving the administration an "Act of War", which he told the world on the …

  Posted to Is Cheney Evil or Just a Weasel?

• • 05 Apr 07
  • 5:57 pm

  Maybe so, but dig this... Has Al Gore's CO2 Theory Fizzled Out? (part one) A Crimes of the State Investigation http://crimesofthestate.blogspot.com/ If you track the popular Internet videos, you may have come across a British TV production called The Great Global Warming Swindle (Google Video). I do not wish to defend the propaganda, the personalities, or the several straw man arguments that appear in this lengthy program. All I want to focus on is the science. This is a study of some global warming dissenters in the climate field. Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth is also explored, in particular Gore's …

  Posted to Resisting the War on Science

• • 05 Apr 07
  • 5:57 pm

  Enter The Politics If the CO2 theory is completely wrong, and the effects of human CO2 emissions are negligible, and therefore do not affect temperature in any measurable way, then the political side of this argument must be examined in detail. The global economy includes numerous energy sectors (oil, coal, nuclear, ethanol, as well as clean alternatives), farm and agriculture (biofuels), international trade and agreements, and even proposed new industries that allow "trading" of newly defined "caps on emissions," a fictional concept somehow given monetary value. This means that big players have a stake in the outcome, as does every man, …

  Posted to Resisting the War on Science