Saturday, April 22, 2006

Americhina, The New World

There's President Bush lecturing the president of China about human rights. Now, granted, China has a very long way to go in granting freedom to its citizens, but who is President Bush to lecture anybody about human rights?
  • The Patriot Act
  • Abu Ghraib
  • Guantanamo
  • Prisoners being sent to other countries for interrogation
    • Allegations of torture
  • Enemy combatants being held indefinitely
    • Without being charged or being given access to a lawyer
  • Wiretapping Americans' telephones without a warrant
    • In clear violation of the law that says you have to have one.
  • Datamining Americans' records
    • The core of this effort is a little-known system called Analysis, Dissemination, Visualization, Insight, and Semantic Enhancement (ADVISE). Only a few public documents mention it. ADVISE is a research and development program within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
  • Neglect of Katrina victims

Perhaps the good Christian Brother Bush forgot that line from the bible, "Let he who is without sin cast the first stone."

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