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ANTITHEISM: “What Religion has Contributed to the World this Month” / ConversationWithA / Episode 8: June / July 2013
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Category Archives: Morality
CONSERVATIVE CREED: “Blame the Victim”
CHRISTIAN COGNITIVE DISSONANCE: “Christians are Morally Compromised” / Dan Barker
INJUSTICE: “Extradition Hypocrisy on the Part of the U.S.: Whistleblowers Yes, Terrorists No” / Liberation
Whistleblower Edward Snowden
Terrorist Luis Posada Carriles
Edward Snowden, who recently disclosed the massive nature of NSA spying on not only Americans but on every single person in the world who uses electronic communications of any kind, is currently a fugitive from “justice” in the United States. Although [Edward Snowden] is currently in a Russian airport, he has been offered political asylum by Venezuela, as well as by Nicaragua and Bolivia.
Although Snowden isn’t yet in Venezuela, the U.S. government has already requested his extradition from that country. The irony of this request abounds. For eight years now, since June 15, 2005, the U.S. has refused to extradite a notorious terrorist to Venezuela. Luis Posada Carriles is wanted in Venezuela on 73 counts of murder for masterminding the 1976 midair bombing of a Cubana airliner (the flight originated in Venezuela, and the bombing was planned there, which is why that country is involved). Posada was also responsible for a string of Cuban hotel bombings in 1997 which killed Italian tourist Fabio di Celmo, and was jailed for four years in Panama (2000-2004) for an attempt to bomb an auditorium in which Fidel Castro was speaking to university students. This is the man the U.S. Government continues to allow to walk the streets of Miami a free man, while they ask for the extradition of a man whose crime was to expose their own illegal actions.
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- Extradition hypocrisy on the part of the U.S.: (pslweb.org)
- Refusal to extradite terrorist to Venezuela exposes Washington’s hypocrisy (workers.org)
- INJUSTICE: “U.S. Shelters Bolivia Ex-President From Genocide Charges As Evo Morales Offers Snowden Asylum” (alwaysquestionauthority.com)
INJUSTICE: “U.S. Shelters Bolivia Ex-President From Genocide Charges As Evo Morales Offers Snowden Asylum”
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Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada, president of Bolivia from 2002 to 2003, was a free-market reformer and U.S. ally. He fled his country after protests to his plans to route natural gas through neighboring Chile toppled his government in 2003 — an episode known in Bolivia as the “Gas War.” He now faces charges of genocide in Bolivia for allegedly ordering the military to fire on protesters in 2003, killing more than 60 people, as well as a civil lawsuit in the U.S. brought by relatives of those who died. Sánchez de Lozada, now living in the U.S., is being sheltered from extradition back to Bolivia.
The Sánchez de Lozada issue hung heavy over U.S-Bolivian relations. And that was before Edward Snowden.
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In 2007, prosecutors in Bolivia filed charges of genocide against Sánchez de Lozada. The Bolivian penal code includes massacres as part of the legal definition of “genocide.”
In 2011, the Bolivian courts convicted five military officers and two former cabinet members and imposed sentences ranging from three to 15 years. In its 2013 “World Report,” Human Rights Watch called the convictions the “only notable advance” in Bolivia’s efforts to punish human rights violations under previous governments.
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The Obama administration refused to extradite Sánchez de Lozada last year. The Bolivian government has filed a second request for extradition, according to La Razón newspaper.
Beth Stephens, the attorney representing the victims’ families [said,] . . . “What they really want is for them to face is criminal prosecution in Bolivia,” Stephens said. “The United States shouldn’t be a safe haven for those who order violent attacks against unarmed civilians.”
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- Extradition hypocrisy on the part of the U.S.: (pslweb.org)
CHRISTIAN SLAVERY CONDONATION: “Black Christians = Uncle Toms” / Dusty Smith
U.S. INHUMANITY: “Yasiin Bey (aka Mos Def) force fed under standard Guantánamo Bay procedure” / The Guardian
CHRISTIAN MISOGYNY: “Schoolhouse Rock Parody Takes Aim At Texas’ Terrible Abortion Bill”
h/t: The Huffington Post
CHRISTIAN TERRORISTS: “Stand Up To Christian Terrorists!” / Dusty Smith
U.S. ARMY CENSORSHIP: “US army blocks access to Guardian website to preserve ‘network hygiene'” / The Guardian
The Pentagon insisted the Department of Defense was only seeking to restrict access to certain content. Photograph: Rick Wilking/Reuters
Military admits to filtering reports and content relating to government surveillance programs for thousands of personnel.
The US army has admitted to blocking access to parts of the Guardian website for thousands of defence personnel across the country.
A spokesman said the military was filtering out reports and content relating to government surveillance programs to preserve “network hygiene” and prevent any classified material appearing on unclassified parts of its computer systems.
The confirmation follows reports in the Monterey Herald that staff at the Presidio military base south of San Francisco had complained of not being able to access the Guardian’s UK site at all, and had only partial access to the US site, following publication of leaks from whistleblower Edward Snowden.
The Pentagon insisted the Department of Defense was not seeking to block the whole website, merely taking steps to restrict access to certain content.
But a spokesman for the Army’s Network Enterprise Technology Command (Netcom) in Arizona confirmed that this was a widespread policy, likely to be affecting hundreds of defence facilities.
“In response to your question about access to the guardian.co.uk website, the army is filtering some access to press coverage and online content about the NSA leaks,” said Gordon Van Vleet, a Netcom public affairs officer.
“The Department of Defense routinely takes preventative ‘network hygiene’ measures to mitigate unauthorized disclosures of classified information onto DoD unclassified networks.”
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