Star Trek Lives!

(Remember the bumper sticker?)
Happy 40th Birthday to Star Trek!

(thanks for the day reminder, kevin_standlee!)

(I LOVED the props at Worldcon!)

article on the Bush government and torture

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/08/washington/08legal.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin

I am so depressed. And sad. And angry.

“The act makes clear,” it says in its introductory findings, “that the Geneva Conventions are not a source of judicially enforceable individual rights.”

I keep thinking that in the US we understand that torture is *wrong*. That we believe in taking the high road, and in being a good example. Somehow my naivetee never goes away. ;-)

And then: “When you’re fighting a new kind of war against an enemy we haven’t faced before,” Professor Yoo said, “our system needs to give flexibility to people to respond to those challenges.”

How many times in human history has that statement been made?

Torture is *wrong*. (It's not even effective, in that the data thus obtained is notoriously faulty... so much for that argument!)

(Unless you're doing it consensually and for mutual satisfaction... but that's a bird of a whole 'nother color)