Assange is still living at the Ecuadorean Embassy in London, coming up on his first anniversary, despite being granted asylum.. so.. Best Regards | Cordiales Saludos | Grato,
Andrés L. Pacheco Sanfuentes <a...@acm.org> +1 (817) 271-9619 On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 12:29 PM, Shava Nerad <shav...@gmail.com> wrote: > Regarding "extraordinary renditions:" I have to note that there has been > phenomenally zip in the news media on these since Obama got smacked on the > nose about them a few years ago. Most of the FBI news stories regarding > domestic terrorism have been show trials regarding sting operations of > Muslim men, usually seeming to have mental health issues, who were entrapped > by a network of operatives into planting a fake bomb and then put on some > trial with a grand jury and put away on felony charges in some form of War > on Terror theater. > > It is hard for me to believe that, in the interim of the administration > getting its nose smacked and now, that nothing but the Boston bombing has > erupted (pardon the term) on the domestic terrorism front. So I have to > assume DHS has quietly been continuing with renditions. Much more quietly. > To God knows where, since they seem to be doing overtures to shut down Gitmo > now. When that gets revealed, it will make Prism look like a sideshow -- > sending US citizens to foreign prisons without trial for interminable > imprisonment? Tasty. Honestly it's hard for me to imagine it hasn't been > happening. The absence of news nearly proves it. I can't believe that the > terrorists have just...given up. Well, except for two boys in Boston, > unanticipated. > > This is a big country, and we have at least as many enemies as Israel and > other places that are quite rife with violence. I'm sure there is gang > violence being misreported and other things being spun. But I am equally > sure we are disappearing people. It can't have stopped, and there are no > real trials. Strategically, as risk management, historically, statistically > -- it makes no sense. This is my assessment. > > Yet several journalists I've asked about it (one of whom is on this list) > have told me, "Find evidence and we'll report it." Oddly, I used to think > that was the job of investigative journalists -- to find the gaps in logic > and find the facts to fit them. I don't have those resources, but then, > neither do the newsrooms these days. And some of them won't jeopardize > sources if they did, so it's on the back of...whistleblowers, traitors, the > semantics get ever more complicated. > > Every year as I age I get more and more compassion for the current elder > generation in Germany. It makes me sad. What color rose shall the American > resistance pick -- blue perhaps? We have them now. > > yrs, > -- > > Shava Nerad > shav...@gmail.com > > -- > Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by > emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings at > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
