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Born at the Crest of the Empire

Monday, February 16, 2009

"Rape by instrumentality"

From a Harper's piece on a Guantanamo prison guard talking,
I participated in some Capitol Hill negotiations with White House representatives relating to legislation creating criminal law accountability for contractors. The Bush White House vehemently objected to provisions of the law dealing with rape by instrumentality. When House negotiators pressed to know why, they were met first with silence and then an embarrassed acknowledgement that a key part of the Bush program included invasion of the bodies of prisoners in a way that might be deemed rape by instrumentality under existing federal and state criminal statutes.
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2 Comments:

  • What is it with these people (radicle right) and their obsession with sexual perversion? God. Freaks me out.

    By Blogger -epm, at 4:01 PM  

  • this story is huge. and you poor bastards, wait until you start seeing the bats. it's the rope for the hangings, it's the next chain link that hooks handcuffs together. Reality is that the US paid people in a third world country the equivalent of two years' salary to turn in "the 9/11 terrorists."

    I wish Hunter S. Thompson had written a book about this shit rather than blow his own tormented head off. Because I started seeing those bats too damned fast, and I can use all the company I can get.

    By Blogger MarcLord, at 10:29 PM  

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