Where's the outrage boyz?

[sobo]

Listen to it all. So wise. So amazing. DO SOMETHING WITH UR LIVES. FREE UR MINDS.

Isn't this about the time someone sez, "UNCAGE YOUR SOUL!!!1"?

 

Outraged

[olyclimber]

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[sobo]

Just another big blue box. Youz guyz are still harshin' my Spray Experience wid'ese YouTubez of yourz...

[KaskadskyjKozak]

Just another big blue box. Youz guyz are still harshin' my Spray Experience wid'ese YouTubez of yourz...

 

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[ivan]

to answer bill, i reckon part of the reason for a lack of outrage is a frustrated, bitter realization that, save voting for ron paul (go ron paul! ), you're only going to get something worse - do you think mccain or bible-spice would be one iota different in this regard?

[rob]

I'm still waiting for gold to hit 6 million an ounce like Bill predicted last year.

 

GOLD!!!!

[jjd]

[billcoe]

Jimmy steps up and lays the riff down:

 

http://news.yahoo.com/jimmy-carter-accuses-u-widespread-abuse-human-rights-154057442--abc-news-politics.html

 

Jimmy Carter Accuses U.S. of 'Widespread Abuse of Human Rights'

 

 

A former U.S. president is accusing the current president of sanctioning the "widespread abuse of human rights" by authorizing drone strikes to kill suspected terrorists.

 

Jimmy Carter, America's 39 th president, denounced the Obama administration for "clearly violating" 10 of the 30 articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, writing in a New York Times op-ed on Monday that the "United States is abandoning its role as the global champion of human rights."

 

"Instead of making the world safer, America's violation of international human rights abets our enemies and alienates our friends," Carter wrote.

 

While the total number of attacks from unmanned aircraft, or drones, and the resulting casualties are murky, the New America Foundation estimates that in Pakistan alone 265 drone strikes have been executed since January 2009 . Those strikes have killed at least 1,488 people, at least 1,343 of them considered militants, the foundation estimates based on news reports and other sources.

 

In addition to the drone strikes, Carter criticized the current president for keeping the Guantanamo Bay detention center open, where prisoners "have been tortured by waterboarding more than 100 times or intimidated with semiautomatic weapons, power drills or threats to sexually assault their mothers."

 

The former president blasted the government for allowing "unprecedented violations of our rights to privacy through warrantless wiretapping and government mining of our electronic communications."

 

He also condemned recent legislation that gives the president the power to detain suspected terrorists indefinitely, although a federal judge blocked the law from taking effect for any suspects not affiliated with the September 11 terrorist attacks.

 

"This law violates the right to freedom of expression and to be presumed innocent until proved guilty, two other rights enshrined in the declaration," Carter said.

 

While Carter never mentioned Obama by name, he called out "our government" and "the highest authorities in Washington," and urged "concerned citizens" to "persuade Washington to reverse course and regain moral leadership."

 

See there, that's what one old dude thinks of those regressive republican Bush/Obama politics. Anyone else see that we have been able to keep the amount of innocents murdered by drones to a low number by counting all men as "insurgents" and as "terrorists". Just need to work to expand that definition to include the little 3 year old girl terrorists and then we can keep murdering people with impunity and keep the count of non-terrorists to just a few newborn infants.

[rob]

 

people love to criticize ol' carter until they he says something they agree with, then they're all "See, even Jimmy thinks so!"