Advocates Speak Out on Behalf of Santa Barbara’s Homeless
The new year’s toll comes on the heels of 28 deaths among Santa Barbara’s homeless in 2009.
A Chance at Justice Denied: Rape Kits in America Go Untested
“After he let me live I wished he killed me.”
Such were Debbie Smith’s words after describing a rape she endured nearly 20 years ago when a masked man abducted her from her home and took her to a nearby woods where he repeatedly raped her.
Early this week, Smith took to Capitol Hill to share her story with a Senate panel in an attempt to urge them to eliminate the startling backlog of untested rape kits in the U.S.
Exactly how many rape kits are we talking about? <more>
Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Gitmo Torture Case Claiming Detainees Are Not "Persons"
Defense attorney: “Future prospective torturers can now draw comfort from this decision.” <more>
Hussam Mohammed Amin: Former Iraqi Weapons Monitor Describes U.S. Abuse For First Time
How terrible it is to discover we are not innocent. Please take the time to read this one account of human rights violations committed by the U.S.A.
…Dietary manipulation was one of 14 interrogation techniques that were outside the Army Field Manual but used as a matter of policy by the Joint Special Operations Command in Iraq when it was under the leadership of Gen. Stanley McChrystal, who President Obama has now tapped to run the war in Afghanistan. The 14 techniques were more “than…any other military organization at that time,” according to a 2004 report by Vice Admiral Albert T. Church, then the Naval Inspector General…<more>
Sheriff Joe Arpaio Forces Woman to Give Birth While Shackled
Uganda Gay Death Penalty Law & The Church
There shouldn’t be any time taken for Christian religious leaders to deliberate…singling out any one group of people for harsher penalties for crimes is WRONG.
With the introduction of a Ugandan bill giving the death penalty for a charge of “aggravated homosexuality” - gay sex with anyone under the age of 18, sex between same-sex partners if one is HIV positive, and gay sex with a disabled person, regardless of whether they gave their consent - international condemnation has followed, but not from everyone…<more>
CIA Agents Convicted of Torture
Someone is finally holding us accountable.
This country may be unwilling to prosecute torturers, but the Italians are not. On Wednesday an Italian judge convicted 23 Americans for the abduction and torture of a Muslim cleric in Milan. The case, the first ever to challenge the United States practice of rendition, has the possibility of creating real problems for the Obama administration…<more>
Citations for Driving While Mexican
The Dallas Police Chief, David Kunkle, has admitted that his officers wrote 39 citations to people over the past 3 years for not speaking English.
It would make a great Onion piece, except it is true.
Who would actually pay this ludicrous citation? The most vulnerable people who are either new to this country and do not know the law or those that feel bullied into paying citations for offenses they never committed simply to avoid additional prosecution under the law…<more>
Bono accepts NAACP award
“True religion will not let us fall asleep in the comfort of our freedom.”
“Where you live should not decide whether you live or whether you die.”
“This is not a burden, it is an adventure!”
Let’s see if those who witnessed this passionate sermon actually do something!
