Friday, July 02, 2004

On the subject of Anti-Americanism. Over on the Social Affairs Unit blog, Michael Mosbacher takes Seamas Milne to task for the idiotic statement in the Guardian that the people fighting the US and UK are the 'real' liberation movement in Iraq, not the people who toppled Saddam Hussain. On the broader topic of anti-Americanism however Mosbacher points out that Seamas Milne has a quite a way to go before he reaches the 'stature' of that florid friend of tyranny the... [Samizdata.net] In the article in question Milne actually doesn't say anything bad about America, just about the US government. It's a bit sad that a site that once claimed to be libertarian is now parotting the statist line that the US government is America. 8:43:34 PM    comment () Abu Ghraib USA?. No one can accuse me of being some kind of fuzzy-minded soft-on-criminals radical--violent felons deserve swift harsh punishment, but not torture. Anne-Marie Cusac writing over at the far-left Progressive offers a good bit of evidence that the sort of infamous torture practiced by American soldiers and intelligence agents at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq is not unknown in US domestic prisons including mock executions and sexual sadism. [Hit & Run] This isn't the first article that's commented on the connection with US prisons. 4:59:03 PM    comment () # Nina Bernstein at The New York Times - In F.B.I., Innocent Detainee Found Unlikely Ally - the story of Purna Raj Bajracharya's "detention" by the f.b.i. They knew within days of his arrest for videotaping an f.b.i. building that he was no terrorist, but they kept him in solitary confinement for three months before allowing him to return to his family in Katmandu. Land of the free? The Times requires free registration to view its content. Use newslinks/newslinks (thanks, kaba) for user id/password if you don't want to register. [root] [End the War on Freedom] For that matter he hadn't done anything that would justify his arrest in the first place. In the Soviet Union, or North Korea, yes, but not in America. 4:21:37 PM    comment ()

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