This is now beyond contention: the United States government, by its own definition, tortures people. Not only that, we’re copying our techniques from Mao’s China circa the Korean War. From the New York Times: The military trainers who came to Guantánamo Bay in December 2002 based an entire interrogation class on a chart showing the [...]
Archive for November, 2011
Over the weekend, I caught Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired on HBO. I didn’t know much about Polanski’s trial before watching the documentary, but now two things are very clear: 1) Polanski liked the young girls way too much and 2) the American justice system completely screwed him over. The film really gives lie to [...]
