Aderholt On Torture

You mean the same Aderholt (4.00 / 1)

that voted against the mental health bill? 

The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dreams shall never die.~Senator Edward M. Kennedy (D. MA)

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by: Redeye @ Tue Mar 18, 2008 at 09:39:31 AM CDT

Security Agencies (4.00 / 1)

themselves, for the most part, say that intelligence gained from torture is not reliable. What's especially chilling about the whole issue is that they have to be contemplating the use of these methods in a wholesale fashion, or they wouldn't be so keen to have legislation pushed through that grants them immunity.

Emergency situations (like, say, a kidnapped child) have sometimes resulted in law enforcement using methods that aren't exactly out of the play book to get critical information.

I don't recall anyone being prosecuted in a case like this. SO how many people are they looking at here? 

When in doubt tell the truth. It will confound your enemies and astound your friends.---Mark Twain

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by: julie @ Tue Mar 18, 2008 at 11:00:00 AM CDT

Aderholt (and Bonner, and Bush, and Cheney and MCCAIN) onTorture (0.00 / 0)

It has become increasingly obvious that George W. Bush's legacy - his chief contribution to the history he so often refers to but obviously never read -is to show the dictators of the world how to do it right.  When Musharraf, Putin, and the rest look to the White House to see how far they may go in repressing their opponents, a new low has clearly been reached in Washinton.  When the Burmese leaders whom Bush so freely castigates for their cruelty have not sunk as far into the mire of inhumanity as has our own CIA - with approval from Bush and ALL his hand puppets - it's a sad day in the land of the free.

How far off the mark was Hugo Chavez when he called Bush "Satan"?  Now, we all know Bush is not Satan, but how evil an entity must he be to have Satan as his vice president?

I have a thought.  I don't want to upset the clean water activists- indeed I am one,  but maybe we should start a campaign to symbolically demonstrate the true nature of our present administration, by dumping some innocuous, biodegradable red dye into the Potomac, upstream, so that it would flow through DC as red as the blood Bush and his minions are so intent on shedding all over this precious planet. We would probably only get away with it once, but just imagine the headlines!

 

 

A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
Margaret Mead  

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by: piggieheart @ Tue Mar 18, 2008 at 12:14:24 PM CDT

^o^ (4.00 / 1)

and perhaps we could arrange some locusts and frogs to coincide with the dye release?

I'd love to see Cheney standing on the ank with a serpent staff

:P 

When in doubt tell the truth. It will confound your enemies and astound your friends.---Mark Twain

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by: julie @ Tue Mar 18, 2008 at 12:20:58 PM CDT

He is not a fan of the 14th Amendment (4.00 / 1)

H.R.1940
Title: To amend section 301 of the Immigration and Nationality Act to clarify those classes of individuals born in the United States who are nationals and citizens of the United States at birth.

Aderholt co-sponsored this crap along with Bachus, Bonner, Everett, and Rodgers.  Scary brown people will take us over if we grant citizenship to children. 

Voting for the lesser of two evils is still better than voting for the most evil.

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by: jonwil @ Tue Mar 18, 2008 at 19:02:33 PM CDT