There are also relatively cheap bug detectors available online that one could use to screen all people coming into a gathering: eliminate informants and/or police or FBI agents who may be wired at the start. Their fascist task should be made as difficult as possible on principle. In addition, it is a good idea to screen attendees because more often than not, the “informants” or undercover types are among the first to agitate for violent or otherwise criminal action. Eliminate these bastards from the start.

Obama can go to hell – and that is essentially what I say every time some Obamabot OR Democrat fundraiser calls seeking money. NO NO NO! No money, no vote. FISA and PAA and Iraq combine to make them beyond my boundaries for voting.

He’ll nearly always pick a stark black & white view of things and pick one thing to emphasize.

He picks “Life” over Privacy with regard to abortion.
He picks national defense over health care reform.

Name it and he picks the Right-Wing policy prescription instead of finding any shade of gray to ensure all Rights are supported.

Don’t count on McCain to defend your voting rights if he thinks national security demands we install a totalitarian style of government.

Don’t count on McCain to defend your right to unionize if he thinks it will interfere with the “right” of a corporation to treat you like dirt.

Don’t count on McCain to defend your right to anything. He has to listen to lobbyists for the Haves and the Have-More Rich and you’re not on his speed-dial.

However, I have to finish a late, and much needed, breakfast and then run over to the Apple store. Today is the big day. iPhone. My heart beats and palms sweat with anticipation. 40 minutes till Wapner the store opens.

So probably late afternoon/early evening I will have the psych torture material ready.

The Bates Decision: A Question Unasked And Unanswered

Today,we know for a fact that the adolescent brain and developement of the frontal lobe, the lobe responsible for cognitive functions and reasoning does not fully develope until the age of about 22,23 years old. How can any doctor participate in an activity that puts this normal developement at risk. We know what trauma does to the brain. Is there any way that it could be argued that a teen being held as an enemy combatant is NOT being traumatized.

Screw it…I am a bleeding heart liberal, I just don’t think we can get to peace by using violence and fear.

…In court documents filed Thursday, lawyers for the Guantánamo detainee Mohammed Jawad asserted that a psychologist’s report helped land Mr. Jawad, a teenager at the time, in a segregation cell, where he became increasingly desperate.

According to the documents, the psychologist, whose name has not been released, completed an assessment of Mr. Jawad after he was seen talking to a poster on his cell wall. Shortly thereafter, in September 2003, he was isolated from other detainees, and many of his requests to see an interrogator were ignored. He later attempted suicide, according to the filing, which asks that the case be dismissed on the ground of abusive treatment.

The Guantánamo court is reviewing the case. Military lawyers have denied that Mr. Jawad suffered any mental health problems from his interrogation. On Thursday, the psychologist in the case invoked Article 31 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, the military’s equivalent of the Fifth Amendment.

“This is what it’s come to,” said Steven Reisner, an assistant clinical professor at the New York University School of Medicine and a leading candidate for the presidency of the psychological association. “We have psychologists taking the Fifth.”