Joanne Accolla, Alexis Albion, Scott Allan, John Azzarello, Caroline Barnes, Warren Bas, Ann Bennett, Mark Bittinger, Madeleine Blot, Antwion Blount, Geoff Brown, Daniel Byman, Dianna Campagna, Sam Caspersen, Melissa Coffey, Lance Cole, Marquittia Coleman, Marco Cordero, Raj De Counsel, George Delgrosso, Gerald L. Dillingham, Thomas Dowling, Steven Dunne, Thomas Eldridge, John Farmer, Alvin Felzenberg, Gordon England, Lorry Fenner, Susan Ginsburg, T. Graham Giusti, Nicole Grandrimo, Doug Greenburg, Barbara Grewe, Elinore Hartz, Len Hawley, Christine Healey, Karen Heitkotter, Walt Hempel, Michael Hurley, Dana Hyde, Michael Jacobson, Bonnie Jenkins, Reginald Johnson, William Johnstone, Stephanie Kaplan, Miles Kara, Janice Kephart-Roberts, Hyon Kim, Christopher Kojm, Katarzyna (Kasia) Kozaczuk, Gordon Lederman, Daniel Leopold, Sarah Linden, Douglas MacEachin, Daniel Marcus, Ernest May, James Miller, Kelly Moore, Charles Pereira, John Raidt, John Roth, Peter Rundlet, Lloyd Salvetti, Kevin Scheid, Kevin Shaeffer, Tracy Shycoff, Dietrich Snell, Jonathan Stull, Lisa Sullivan, John Tamm, Cate Taylor, Yoel Tobin, Emily Walker, Garth Wermter, Serena Wille.

It would have an organization easily co-opted early on. But Zelikow probably forgot step one, which is, ALWAYS, be nice to the administrative staff.

The court system, to those of us not making lots of money off the process, is a rich kid’s gotcha game that almost randomly pulls some of us into the game. It’s kinda’ like a polo match which pulls in people passing by to be the ball, hit by rich people that are out of reach on their horses. Everyone else in the courtroom gets to go home tonight, congratulating themselves, EXCEPT the newest conscripted player. This is evidenced by the system’s method of dealing with it’s own mistakes (NOT if they can help it!)

I do agree with a lot of the “rants” of BigBrother, especially to do with the manufactured “crimes” of drug use and the like. Does anyone else see a systemic conflict of interest to have “private” gulags prisons?

I am not condemning everyone in the system, we actually do need deal with bad apples, it’s just that they are kind of lost in the game.

I was talking to a friend of mine at a bar one night. He laid out for my how basically, the jury system is irretrievably broken and very rarely comes to fair decisions. I found out later, from his assistant (he wouldn’t tell me), that he was a judge and is now doing constitutional arguments before the state Supreme Court. I think that adds weight to his opinion. *g*

As a kid, I always thought we had the greatest legal system in the world; growing up is a bitch.

the cool, carefully considered, methodical, prolonged, and repeated subjection of captives to physical torment, and the accompanying psychological terror, is immoral.

[my italics]

Let me offer this up. If ever there is need for someone to detail all the “psychological terror” that would result here, how the environment, and the deprivation, and the torment, and the way someone is treated, I am more than willing to sit down and write something up. Because I think too often any torture method is described as simply something physical that started and ended, without any explanation of the whole context that surrounds it and imbues it with “terror.”

When I read these words above, it simply makes my blood run cold:

cool,

carefully considered,

methodical,

prolonged,

and repeated
…
physical torment,

and the accompanying psychological terror

One reads that and there can be no doubt this was purposeful, calculated, insidious, and had to have been authorized “at the highest levels” – if not, observed at the highest levels.

Perhaps because he is known to be a pompous ass?