Truth, Justice, And The American Way
June 8, 2008, Matthew Good Superman is fictional. So is the rule of law as it pertains to the Bush Administration…
“The Pentagon urged interrogators at Guantanamo Bay to destroy handwritten notes in case they were called to testify about potentially harsh treatment of detainees, a military defense lawyer said Sunday.
The lawyer for Toronto-born Omar Khadr, Lt. Cmdr. William Kuebler, said the instructions were included in an operations manual shown to him by prosecutors and suggest the U.S. deliberately thwarted evidence that could help terror suspects defend themselves at trial.
Kuebler said the apparent destruction of evidence prevents him from challenging the reliability of any alleged confessions. He said he will use the document to seek a dismissal of charges against Khadr.”
Destroying that which you claim to defend is the destruction of all things equally. You neither gain victory nor suffer defeat. Only the commission of suicide by the least noticeable of options.
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I still can’t sleep tonight. But this, when I do sleep, it just makes my dreams, even the worse ones, seem much more enjoyable.
“Standard Procedures…” It makes me sick. I don’t understand why your Government can’t do more to get him home.
I can to some degree relate to the “no sleep” thing. Although lately I’ve been having between 4-6 hours of sleep a day and feel like I’m getting 2-3.
It’s funny that living in one of the richest countries in the world with cell phones, computers, cars, decent houses….. running water. That we can still experience deep stages of depression. And actually admit to it openly. I know I do. And I am. I work two jobs just to try to live. I don’t own a car nor do I drive. I don’t own a house or a computer at the moment. (I’m on my roommates computer). I boycott automobiles due to carbon emissions. I get mocked for that daily. But I still poison my body with alcohol and cigars. …
My own hypocrisy is hilarious.
It’s 1:40am right now, I’m drunk and I gotta get up at 7am for a 12 hour shift to feed the vultures. Same as usual I’m up writing music and in between listening to matt good.
I sleep to the sound of a fan. As I’ve done before I sleep on the floor. Your spine gets used to it. With the things going on around the world I really believe that I deserve anything bad that comes to me for complaining about where I am. I don’t live in Israel or Sudan after all… Gas prices are too high? Considering oil could be all but gone in the next 50 years I’d say it should be way higher. Don’t like to recycle cuz you don’t have the time? There’s a mountain of garbage on the bottom of the pacific twice the size of Texas. Wanna get a new cell phone cuz…. You just want the newer “better” one? E-waste accounts for only 2% of north Americas garbage but accounts for 70% of our toxic waste.
It is so amazingly fucking hilarious that with everything that goes on in the world that we worry about our own little problems so much that we don’t even know the big picture. Or forget it sometimes if we do know it or think that we did. We will live it someday to a degree I think. I’m part of it as well. The only time any of us takes it seriously is if it affects our lives directly.
The term “I want it all” should make so much sense to any north American that they would be so fucking diluted to think they haven’t been saying that their whole life. We were raised that way, we don’t know what else to say. “the lineup at Tim Horton’s was so long took forever” …. I’m not saying it wasn’t. but fuck. Gas prices are high? …. Not high enough. Lookup oil and find out what it really is. We take so much for granted that even I am a fucking idiot.
The only reason I sleep for 4-6 hours a night is cuz I’m stuck in what I call my life. Sleep is my only escape, the chance that I might have a good dream and then… wake up to the real world. Although there are many many beautiful things on this planet. Humans kill everything just to keep ourselves alive. Look at how much man power, research, funds were put into “killing” in human history. So much technology made for killing. Kill each other, and everything around us. Why not right? Could be fun never know?
I got drunk for the first time eight years ago. I never really stopped.
Matt I know you like to collect movies… so if your interested in some environmental documentaries (although I’m sure you know more about this than I do but maybe you haven’t seen these movies??) look up “six degrees”, “Human Footprint”, “A crude awakening”{The oil crash}’, “Manufactured landscapes” and “the refugees of the blue planet”. They are pretty interesting if you haven’t already seen them.
Anyway I should try to get some sleep. I’m going to see you at the Orpheum on the 26th and at the port theater in Nanaimo on your b-day. I’ve never seen you live before and it’s been a dream of mine for about ten years to do so.
Take care.
[quote comment="54813"]“Standard Procedures…” It makes me sick. I don’t understand why your Government can’t do more to get him home.[/quote]
It’s for the exact same reasons my government didn’t do more to get Murat Kurnaz home in 2002. Instead they let him die a little bit more every single day of his internation until his release in 2006.
Canada is seeking its place in the world’s elite as well as my country does. If a country wants to achieve a leading role in this world allegiance to US politics and interests is quasi inevitable. Theres no country in the world that could afford troubled relations with the world’s Hegemony.
Of course this is not much news, but of course all the more reason why we don’t need the republicans running things anymore.
I just hope that McCain’s age really plays a part in this, not in the talk, but in actual events….
Is that a going to far, or not far enough?
This farce wouldn’t be complete without at least a few more acts.
I have to say that I’m most shocked that anyone thought it was a good idea to put that instruction in writing. But I guess when you’ve completely abdicated yourself from any moral responsibility, just about anything seems like a good idea.
Yes, I agree rabbit. Sadly, orders to destroy a paper trail isn’t even news anymore - it’s the norm and has become so commonplace that it hardly raises eyebrows anymore. But the fact that an operations manual gives orders to do so is a little shocking…it confirms that it’s now become standard procedure to cover tracks. And that’s alarming in so many ways.
I wonder what the fuck an interrogator would write anyway…
I really hope that nobody is surprised by this.
And Mr. I, we live in a world of hypocrites. What’re you gonna do?
[quote comment="54842"]I wonder what the fuck an interrogator would write anyway…[/quote]
“Do you spell ‘yeearg’ with two or three ‘e’s?”
(Yup. Going to hell for that one.)
earlier today I had coffee with a guy I just met who seemed like a compatible match.
we proceeded to get into a hostle two hour debate regarding the fundamentals, the obcenities and the damaging effects of war.
he instructed me that these type of situations are perfectly natural to mankind. that what has been done, though unfortunate, yes, had to happen. there was no other way. this is the reality of war, he said, and war is neccesary.
I then became ill, left the coffee shop and don’t think I will persue his friendship any longer.