Tag: Society

Torture in Dubai: Perhaps the Detainee Had High Value Information?

By MB

On April 22, 2009

A man in a UAE police uniform is seen on the tape tying the victim’s arms and legs, and later holding him down as the Sheikh [brother of the crown prince] pours salt on the man’s wounds and then drives over him with his Mercedes SUV.

Go ahead, click the link and watch it.Â Maybe the guy had valuable information, and this was the only way to get it.Â And the policeman?Â Well, I’m sure that the Sheikh issued a legal opinion saying that it was just fine.Â Â Nothing wrong here at all.Â Just like the Americans do it.

Eric Holder Is Right

By MB

On February 19, 2009

In Personal, Society

Yesterday:

In his first major speech since being confirmed, the nation’s first black attorney general told an overflow crowd celebrating Black History Month at the Justice Department the nation remains “voluntarily socially segregated.”

“Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards,” Holder declared.

He is absolutely right, and anyone who says otherwise is almost unbelievably naive or pushing an undeclared agenda.