Hundreds of gay men have been tortured and killed in Iraq in recent months, some by the nation’s security forces, Human Rights Watch said in a report released Monday, following interviews with Iraqi doctors. According to the organization, attackers target people on the streets or storm homes, where they conduct interrogations and demand names of [...]
Posts Tagged ‘with extreme prejudice’
Gay Men Attacked, Executed in Iraq
Posted in Sicknesses, Terrorisms, Traveling to the Foreigns, World News, tagged gay rights, human rights, human rights abuse, Iraq, Military, politics, Terrorisms, with extreme prejudice, World News on 08/17/2009 | 8 Comments »
Sure DNA Evidence Might Exonerate You But I’d Have To Do My Job Properly This Time, So Whatever
Posted in Lawmaking, Prisons, tagged legal system, with extreme prejudice, your criminal justice system on 05/18/2009 | Leave a Comment »
In its latest effort to blatantly criminalize individuals, the criminal justice system (primarily through its prosecutors) is blocking inmates’ access to DNA testing that could possibly exonerate them. Even though laws in 46 states require them to comply with the requests, and prisoners are willing to pay for the tests themselves. Prosecutors seem confused over [...]
America’s Faux-Outrage Over Torture
Posted in Politicking, War, tagged criminal behavior, laws, politics, torture, with extreme prejudice on 05/06/2009 | Leave a Comment »
A report by the Office of Professional Responsibility, an internal ethics unit within the Justice Department, has concluded that Bush administration lawyers committed serious lapses of judgment in writing secret memos authorizing brutal interrogations during the period from 2002 to 2007. The authors of the report are likely to ask state bar associations to consider [...]
The Immigration Disaster
Posted in Lawmaking, Racisms, Terrorisms, tagged good policework, illegal immigrants hate america and threaten our way of life, immigration, justice system, rants, with extreme prejudice on 04/23/2009 | Leave a Comment »
I think the immigration laws in this country are pretty fucked up, totally discriminatory, and mindlessly executed. And today’s piece in the New York Times further supports my point. The story of the woman they feature is a pretty convoluted one, so you can read that for youselves here; my goal in this post is [...]
Separation of Church and State
Posted in Lawmaking, Prisons, Religion, Texas, tagged death row, legal system, stupid juries, with extreme prejudice on 04/21/2009 | Leave a Comment »
A death row inmate in Texas challenged his jury sentence, claiming his constitutional rights were violated by jurors who consulted a Bible during deliberations. Turns out, his God-loving, gun-clinging peers reviewed a biblical passage relating that a murderer who used an iron object to kill “shall surely be put to death.” You see, Khristian Oliver [...]
Cop Almost Kills Boy… Now Back On Streets, Protecting Your Kids.
Posted in Terrorisms, tagged good policework, violence, with extreme prejudice on 03/18/2009 | Leave a Comment »
Charles Porter, a 13-year veteran of the Denver Police Department, was on a gang-unit detail one night last spring, when he believed he saw 16-year-old Juan Vasquez swinging an alcoholic beverage in northwest Denver. Here’s what ensued: Porter shone his flashlight, at which point the young Vasquez ran. After a short chase, Porter and two [...]
