Comments on: DOJ Watchdog Still Probing Yoo/Bybee Torture Memo http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/01/doj-watchdog-still-probing-yoobybee-torture-memo/ a radical newsletter in the struggle for peace and social justice Thu, 08 Dec 2011 15:07:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: John Hatch http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/01/doj-watchdog-still-probing-yoobybee-torture-memo/#comment-36648 John Hatch Sat, 17 Jan 2009 21:59:25 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/?p=6240#comment-36648 Even given the twisted logic of the Bybee/Yoo memos, even if one accepted their all but defined out of existence meaning of torture, the Americans still tortured several, and perhaps many people to death. Some of the names and circumstances appear in my article here, http://www.orato.com/podium/2009/01/09/kyrie-eleison, but there are probably many, many other cases. How can President-elect Obama 'move forward' while ignoring murder? How can he justify having the highest incarceration rate in the world (mostly for victimless crimes) while pretending that numerous torture deaths on the part of the past Administration didn't happen or don't matter? Is this 'change'? Even given the twisted logic of the Bybee/Yoo memos, even if one accepted their all but defined out of existence meaning of torture, the Americans still tortured several, and perhaps many people to death. Some of the names and circumstances appear in my article here,
http://www.orato.com/podium/2009/01/09/kyrie-eleison,
but there are probably many, many other cases.

How can President-elect Obama ‘move forward’ while ignoring murder? How can he justify having the highest incarceration rate in the world (mostly for victimless crimes) while pretending that numerous torture deaths on the part of the past Administration didn’t happen or don’t matter? Is this ‘change’?

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