The Blasphemy against ALL gods of men!

WE DO NOT TORTURE!

2008-10-08T19:05:44Z

AP Exclusive: Documents say detainee near insanity

By PAMELA HESS, Associated Press Writer Wed Oct 8, 6:52 AM ET

WASHINGTON - A U.S. military officer warned Pentagon officials that an American detainee was being driven nearly insane by months of punishing isolation and sensory deprivation in a U.S. military brig, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press.

While the treatment of prisoners at detention facilities at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and in Afghanistan and Iraq have long been the subject of human rights complaints and court scrutiny, the documents shed new light on how two American citizens and a legal U.S. resident were treated in military jails inside the United States.

The Bush administration ordered the men to be held in military jails as "enemy combatants" for years of interrogations without criminal charges, which would not have been allowed in civilian jails.

The men were interrogated by the CIA and Defense Intelligence Agency, repeatedly denied access to attorneys and mail from home and contact with anyone other than guards and their interrogators. They were deprived of natural light for months and for years were forbidden even minor distractions such as a soccer ball or a dictionary.

"I will continue to do what I can to help this individual maintain his sanity, but in my opinion we're working with borrowed time," an unidentified Navy brig official wrote of prisoner Yaser Esam Hamdi in 2002. "I would like to have some form of an incentive program in place to reward him for his continued good behavior, but more so, to keep him from whacking out on me."

Yale Law School's Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic received the documents through a Freedom of Information Act request filed by two attorneys Jonathan Freiman and Tahlia Townsend, representing another detainee, Jose Padilla. The Lowenstein group and the American Civil Liberties Union said the papers were evidence that the Bush administration violated the 5th Amendment's protections against cruel treatment. The U.S. military was ordered to treat the American prisoners the same way prisoners at Guantanamo were treated, according to the documents.

However, the Guantanamo jail was created by the Bush administration specifically to avoid allowing detainees any constitutional rights. Administration lawyers contended the Constitution did not apply outside the country.

"These documents are the first clear confirmation of what we've suspected all along, that the brig was run as a prison beyond the law. There was an effort to create a Gitmo inside the United States," Jonathan Hafetz of the ACLU's National Security Project in New York said, using the slang word for the U.S. naval facility in Cuba.

The 91 pages of e-mails and documents produced by U.S. Fleet Forces Command, which runs the military brigs in Norfolk, Va., and Charleston, S.C., detail daily decisions made about the treatment of Hamdi and Padilla, then both American citizens, and Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri, a legal resident. All were designated as by the White House as "illegal enemy combatants."

The paperwork show uniformed officials at the military brigs growing increasingly uncomfortable and then alarmed that they were being directed to handle their prisoners under the rules that governed Guantanamo.

The authors and recipients of the e-mails are censored from the documents. They appear to be going to either military or Pentagon legal counsel and policy offices.

The documents show that some officials at the Charleston brig were deeply skeptical about the mandate that Guantanamo rules should apply in the United States, a decision made by the defense secretary's office, according to the documents.

"You have every right to question the 'lash-up' between GTMO and Charleston — it was the first thing I ask (sic) about a year ago when I checked on board," wrote one official to another in 2006. "In a nutshell, they gave the Charleston detainee mission to (Joint Forces Command) who promptly gave it to (Fleet Forces Command) with a 'lots of luck' and nothing else."

An officer was still raising alarms about Hamdi's mental state after 14 months of jail with no contact with lawyers, his family or even other prisoners.

"I told him the last thing that I wanted to have happen was to send him anywhere from here as a 'basket case,' of use to no one, to include himself," the officer wrote in an e-mail to undisclosed government officials in June 2003. "I fear the rubber band is nearing its breaking point here and not totally confident I can keep his head in the game much longer."

The frustrated officer wrote that he had "to have the ability to exercise some discretion when I believe it best for the health and welfare of those assigned to my facility ... Know ... we are to remain consistent with the procedures that were/are in place at Camp X-Ray" a reference to the Guantanamo jail. He pointed out that imposing those conditions in the brig had a far harsher effect on his prisoners because they had no contact with any other detainees, which was allowed at Guantanamo.

Scores of pages of once-secret legal opinions regarding detainee rights and treatment have been released under the Freedom of Information Act. At least two apparently crucial memos about enemy combatant treatment inside the U.S. have yet to be made public.

Hamdi was captured in Afghanistan in 2001, shipped to Guantanamo and then moved to the U.S. after his citizenship was discovered. He was held and interrogated for three years without charges. The Supreme Court in 2004 rejected the government's attempt to hold him indefinitely without charge. He was released to Saudi Arabia on the condition he give up his U.S. citizenship.

Al-Marri, a citizen of Qatar, was a legal resident studying for a master's degree in Illinois when he was arrested in December 2001 by the FBI as a material witness to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. He was charged with credit card fraud in 2002. A month before his trial in 2003, President Bush declared him an enemy combatant and al-Marri was transferred to the consolidated naval brig in Charleston. There he was held in isolation for 16 months, denied shoes and socks for two years, and was not allowed any contact with his family for five years. He remains in the military brig but is appealing his detention to the Supreme Court.

Padilla was arrested in 2002 under suspicion he was collaborating with al-Qaida to build a radioactive or "dirty" bomb. He was held as an enemy combatant for more than three years. He was held totally incommunicado for 21 months. His mother was only allowed to see Padilla after she agreed not to alert the media to the visit, according to the documents.

The government dropped the dirty bomb charges and Padilla's case was moved to civilian court where in 2007 he was convicted of supporting terrorism in Kosovo, Bosnia and Chechnya.

lammassu @ 2007-10-11T13:27:00

2007-10-11T18:43:39Z

OHMYGODOHMYGODOHMYGOD!!!!YOUGUYSYOUGUYSOHMYGODOHMYGODOHMYGOD!!!

I just found out that the fucking Misfits are coming to Chicago on the 22nd of this month at the House of Blues! :D The tickets are only $18!!!! Holy batshit Batman! I've seen them live a couple of times and these guys kick major ass, and their bassist, Jerry Only, even saved my fucking life! I don't mean in some stupid 'waynes world' finding jesus we're not worthy way, but physically saving my life way.

Now I don't know which concert to go to, both offer and guarantee absolution into the kingdom of heaven merely by attending, and both have incredibly cheap prices for tickets, should I... attend both concerts!!?? Yessssssss, maybe THATS how I'll dethrone christ from his highchair. Having discovered I attended BOTH shows and spread the word of holiness and piousness to the masses he'll have no choice but to say "Damn, I'm impressed! I guess you're god now!"

Yay Salvation is MINE!!!!! :D

I love blasphemy. ;P

Bacon, it's what's for communion.

http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/04003F32660212C4?cce_tid=1D7B3F3F6F5C3F84A3F3F2263F2E3F3E3F3F27&oid=1D7B3F3F6F5C3F84A3F3F2263F2E3F3E3F3F27&eid=297311&brand=HOB

Yay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2007-05-05T00:15:29Z

STUPID SPOILED WHORE GOING TO JAIL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070504/ap_en_ce/paris_hilton

Let's drink to celebrate!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

How I would end the war in Iraq

2007-05-04T19:13:10Z

The way I would get the U.S. out of this quagmire that that imbecile, George W. Bush, got us into in Iraq, would require the strategies that both incompetent political parties support: troop surge and then withdraw.

Right now, members of the Iraqi legislature are planning their Summer long vacation... Summer long! If this isn't an indication of why these Iraqi elected officials want us to remain in Iraq, then I don't know what is. These politicians are more corrupt then the Republican 'do nothing' Congress! How can they possibly even consider going home a couple of hours early let alone take a 2 month vacation?! Simple, so long as we're there to 'keep the peace', they don't have to do anything. So long as our men and women in service defend THEIR country on THEIR soil, they don't have to train their military.

Now, unfortunately, we can't just withdraw our troops immedietly like I want us to, too many innocent people will die, be tortured or worse. Thank you Bush, for making a mess that we get to clean up! Typical Republican. We have to increase the number of troops we have on the ground in Iraq to give relief to those that are already there. We need to DOUBLE the current number of servicemen and make damn sure they have the equipment, services, medical care and armor that they need (what a crappy leader our 'commander in chief' is). If we have close to 300,000 troops in Iraq, then we can realistically keep the peace long enough for Iraq to build up their military.

What would be their incentive to aggressively train their troops? Simple, we leave in 2008. That's it. We not only tell the Iraqi government, but we tell the world. We let EVERYBODY IN THE WORLD know that we're leaving and the Iraqi's will have control over their country again. Now our leaving will leave a void and the Iraqi government better damn well fill that void or else someone else will. There's their incentive to get off their asses and stop their ridiculous bickering over which misinterpretation of the Quran is less inaccurate. They will be forced to reconcile their differences or else be annihilated.

That seems pretty cold, but there will always be difference of opinion in a people of a country and unless they unite for a common goal, then they will fall as a sovereign nation. United we stand, divided we fall. The reason the Sunni's and the Shi'ites continue to slaughter each other is because they can afford to. So long as we remain in Iraq and play mother hen, then they can continue to act on their silly religious prejudices. The one thing both religious sects agree on is the end of the U.S. occupation. Fine, you want us gone? Well we want to go, but unless these people unite as a nation then our leaving will decimate the entire region. All because George W. Bush wanted to be a heroic war president.

This is the philosophy of Yin-Yang, the universal philosophy. The only way to acheive balance and harmony is by applying the direct opposite fury against the one causing the problem. The idle rich that work on Capitol Hill only see half of the solution, only their piece of the pie, but only by bringing both halves together will we get the whole solution.

Exciting new job oppurtunity everybody!

2007-04-12T13:41:21Z

WANTED: Scapegoat with high threshold for pain,
low self-esteem to act as mouthpiece/puppet for Bush war.
Must be willing to provide "guidance" to the President,
in the form of stating to him what he already wants to do
so that he can say he was listening to his War Czar. Must be able to take
responsibility for mistakes and disasters. Must be prepared to be fired
suddenly and without warning.

You must supply your own anal lube though.

A Greater Feast for Death...

2007-04-12T13:27:19Z

Kurt Vonnegut died today at the age of 84. He was a talented author whose wit and humour always lightened my mood when reading his novels, especially 'Slaughterhouse-Five'. I must admit, he was one of the great authors who lit a fire under my ass to challenge the various establishments in this country and dare to think for myself. Even though he's moved on to continue his Great Work, I can't help but be selfish and mourn his passing. He will be sorely missed. Here is a link to the breaking news.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070412/ap_on_en_ot/obit_vonnegut;_ylt=ArvZU0SkWWU.OpVEfxayBL_MWM0F

This article is just plain AWESOME!!!!

2007-04-05T13:02:29Z

JUNEAU, Alaska - A black wolf snatched a small dog near a Juneau lake and ran into the woods with it, U.S. Forest Service rangers said. A woman was walking three dogs Tuesday at Mendenhall Lake when the wolf grabbed the unleashed Pomeranian then dashed off with the dog in its jaws. The woman unsuccessfully searched for the dog, which has not been seen since.

An animal believed to be the same wolf, however, was seen alone at the lake Wednesday, said Dennis Chester, wildlife biologist at the Juneau Ranger District.

The culprit is believed to be a wolf nicknamed Romeo and known for playing with larger dogs accompanying people on walks.

Some people walking their dogs in the area may have become complacent because the wolf has not been seen lately, officials said.

"The bottom line is, right now it's out there," said Ryan Scott, a wildlife biologist with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game. "(The snatching) is a reminder to ourselves that a wolf is a wild animal."

Thou shalt not kill except...

2007-04-03T16:42:21Z

The ultimate in population control of a species that dominates the food chain...

Holy Wars

Brother will kill Brother
spilling blood across the land
killing for religion
something I don't understand

Fools like me, who cross the sea
and come to foreign lands
ask the sheep, for their beliefs
do you kill on god's command?

a country that's divided
surely will not stand
my past erased, no more mistakes
no foolish naiive stand

The end is near
it's crystal clear
part of the master plan
don't look now, for Israel
it might be your homeland

Holy Wars...

Everything's coming up roses in Iraq...

2007-03-30T14:42:48Z

http://news.yahoo.com/s/huffpost/20070330/cm_huffpost/044572;_ylt=AmBjnZAM6sdSGni6TUGHfIXMWM0F

Check out this editorial in reference to the bloggers king georgie the tyrant mentioned to illustrate how wonderful life is for the people of Iraq.

"And they will greet us as liberators, yea they will greet us as liberators."

HAPPY ROVE GETTING SUBPOENED TO TESTIFY UNDER OATH BEFORE CONGRESS!!! (WOOOO!!!)

2007-03-21T15:46:59Z

oh my gawd oh my gawd! I can't believe this is happening, the toothless jackasses in Congress finally grew a pair of balls and proceeded to whap them over the collective heads of the bush administration (WOOOOOOO!!) They're currently teabagging Karl Rove by approving a subpoena for him (this will be the FIRST TIME ANY MEMBER OF THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION TESTIFIES BEFORE CONGRESS UNDER OATH!!)

Is it pertaining to our illegal occupation of a sovereign nation?

Don't be daft!! The American Empire will occupy Iraq until Americans eventually accept it as part of the authoritarian rule by our neo-conservative overlords! (duh!)

Will the 8 attorneys fired by Lord Gonzalez get their jobs back?

Why? We already have perfectly good lawyers there, that have pledged their allegience to Bush and his new world order!
'Due process' and a 'fair and speedy trial' are now things of the past!

Will Karl Rove pay for his crimes against the Constitution and the American people?

Now that's just a stupid question! Moving on.

Then why the hell does it matter if Karl Rove or any member of the Bush Administration for that matter, gets subpoened or not?

Because at this point of stage where our democracy and way of life are literally wasting away and rotting into an unholy empire of hatred and bigotry, it's refreshing to see ANY ONE member of the Bush Administration be held accountable for ANYTHING! I don't even care anymore, there are so many atrocities committed against our Constitution by the Bush Administration, Congress may as well just pick one out of a hat!

In fact, Karl Rove may never actually TESTIFY before Congress, because King Georgie the Tyrant has already declared he will fight this subpoena and take it to the Supreme Court, where it will get bounced back and forth by a bunch of flustering beaurocrats thus delaying it indefinetly. At least, though, there's still some fight in the American people and their representatives to hold the Bush Administration accountable for... SOMETHING.

Heavy Metal blasting through your speakers, is a sign of GENIUS!!!

2007-03-21T13:54:30Z

I'm a genius!

Check out this article posted below:

LONDON (AFP) - Teenagers who lock themselves in their bedrooms to blast out heavy metal music may simply be trying to cope with the pressures of being gifted, according to British research reported Wednesday.

The study said that teenagers often work off the stresses and strains of being a bright outsider by listening to bands such as System Of A Down, Slipknot and Tool.

Researchers questioned more than 1,000 members of the National Academy for Gifted and Talented Youth, whose members rank among the brightest five percent of youngsters in Britain.

"There is a perception of gifted and talented students as being into classical music and spending a lot of time reading.

"I think that is an inaccurate stereotype," Stuart Cadwallader, a University of Warwick psychologist who is presenting the findings to the British Psychological Society Wednesday, told the Daily Telegraph.

"We are looking at a group with lower than average self-esteem that does not feel quite as well adjusted.

"They feel more stressed out and turn to heavy metal as a way of relieving that stress."

Cadwallader added that heavy metal fans often appreciate the "complex and sometimes political themes" of the music.

"It has a tendency to worry adults a bit but I think it's just a cathartic thing," he said.

"It does not indicate problems."

Many of heavy metal's biggest stars are closet geeks -- Brian May, guitarist with Queen, is currently finishing a doctorate in astrophysics, while Iron Maiden star Bruce Dickinson is a history graduate, international fencer and qualified commercial pilot.

Who's fault is it?

2007-03-20T17:37:46Z

Editorial by Jeff Faux...

America needs an impeachment trial - not so much to punish George Bush's "high crimes and misdemeanors" but to absorb the lesson that we forgot so quickly after the Vietnam War: how easy it is for presidents to sweep us up in fear and jingoist excitement as they march our sons and daughters off to the slaughterhouse of war.

George Bush as a lot to answer for. But so do the rest of us. This is a democracy after all, and citizens bear a collective responsibility for what their government does. The American public was a passive enabler to the Iraq policy it now condemns. A majority voted for George Bush in 2004 and supported him in the polls well into 2005 in the face of clear evidence that Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction and had nothing to do with 9/11. Sure, tens of forty-nine percent voted against him, but few aroused themselves to do more. Absent a draft, the young mostly shrugged, while their elders implicitly accepted Bush's vile proposition to "support the troops" by taking his tax cuts and marching off to the shopping mall.

Yes, the spectacle of finger-pointing, recrimination and the shredding of reputations that would surely accompany impeachment will be traumatic for the country. But such a riveting, unavoidable public drama is precisely what we need in order to etch into our national memory how our democratic institutions failed the people - and how the people failed themselves. We need, together, to relive the painful story of the Congress ducking its constitutional obligations, of generals like Colin Powell licking the boots of draft-dodgers Bush and Cheney, of the "free" press slavishly echoing W's contradictory and transparently false explanation for an unprovoked invasion of a country who was no threat to America.

Lyndon Johnson lied to get us into the Vietnam War and Richard Nixon lied to keep us there. But after the humiliating flight of American helicopters from Saigon, neither Democrats nor Republicans in Congress had much stomach to revisit the scene of a crime where both parties had left their fingerprints. Gerald Ford gave Richard Nixon a blanket pardon, and with a sigh of relief, Washington moved on. A decade later, another president, Ronald Reagan, was caught selling arms to an avowed enemy of the United States in order to raise money for an illegal war in Central America. But Reagan was popular, so once again, the nation looked the other way. And the imperial presidency continued to expand.

Democracy depends not so much on what government officials learn from their mistakes, but on what citizens learn. History shows that we will not learn the costly moral of this Iraq disaster by leaving it to the historians, or to the report of some future blue-ribbon commission -- inevitably more concerned with bipartisan comity than with exposing Americans to some uncomfortable truths about themselves.

George Bush's defense in an impeachment trial would surely include the claim that the people were with him. So they were, cheering him on as he unleashed the dogs of war. And unless we acknowledge that complicity, and pass the lesson on to the next generation, a future president will almost certainly take us down this road again.

christianity is an infectous disease!!!!!

2007-03-10T18:14:32Z

I just finished watching this special on the making of 'Star Wars', and it was really neat because they interviewed everybody from George Lucas, to Harrison Ford. There was a brief mention towards the end of the (ugh) new trilogy George made when Megan and I started talking about the multitude of reasons that made the 'Phantom trilogy' so crappy, especially the introduction of 'midichlorines' and how it's the result of George Lucas bowing down to the christian regime of hatred and intolerance. Let me explain.

Crazy christians like jerry falwel didn't like the original trilogy because of 'The Force' and how it was perceived as a religous element contrary to christianity (ie. it was pagan), but thanks to 'midichlorines' the Force has been reduced to a biological odditty that the christian god can now be credited to bestowing upon his children (puke). And that's the problem with christianity, if a concept cannot be absorbed into the malignant puss bubble of christian dogma, then they perceive it as a threat and must attack it. How can christianity be considered a good thing? Honestly.

IT'S YOUR AMERICAN DUTY TO IMPEACH THE PRESIDENT!!!!!!!

2007-03-08T02:34:24Z

This isn't a crazy idea, and I'm not the first one to feel this way and I'm pretty sure I'm not the last. Take a look at the link below to see what's going on in Vermont.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/thenation/20070307/cm_thenation/1172344;_ylt=AukXrkzWXoYIfrK8eIGD9ML9wxIF

PRESIDENT CLINTON WAS GOING TO BE IMPEACHED FOR LESS!!!!!!!

Here are some beautiful PATRIOTIC lyrics from a wonderful band called 'Bad Religion' (apologies to the band):

Atheist Peace:

Maybe it's to late
for intellectual debate
but a residue of confusion remains

Changing with the times
and developentally tortured minds
are the average citizen's sources of pain

"Tell me what we're fighting for"
I don't remember anymore
only temporary reprieve
and the world might cease
if we fail to tame the beast
from the faith that you release comes an atheist peace

political forces rent
bitter cold winds of discontent
and the modern age emerged triumphantly

but now it seems we've stalled
and it's time to de-evolve
and relive the dark chapters of history

"Tell me what we're fighting for"
No progress ever came from war
only a false sense of increase
And the world won't wait
for the TRUTH upon the plate
but we're ready now to feast
on an atheist peace

THE DUTY OF EVERY PATRIOTIC AMERICAN CITIZEN IS TO QUESTION HIS/HER GOVERNMENT!!!!!

93, I have a livejournal account!

2007-03-05T02:55:15Z

Hi Everybody!

                   It's Derek! Megan (nathicana220) finally beat me into submission and get a livejournal account. I love this woman, she keeps me in line. ;P Anyway, I feel it would be necessary to fill everyone in on what I've been up to for the past couple of years. As some of you might know, Megan and I moved up from Austin to Chicago a couple of years back and after surviving our first year in the windy city (a period of time we now lovingly call "The Gauntlet"), we're finally situated here in Evanston and making the most of our lives in the Great Work. We're both members of the Aum Ha Oasis (which is totally awesome and reminds me of the Scarlet Woman Lodge in comradarie and fellowship), and made a bunch of kewl friends who just so happen to be fellow Thelemites (co-inky-dink? I think not!).

                    I work in a company called "Rewards Network" as their UCC clerk, and it's a nice steady job with good pay that pays the bills and feeds the monkey (Monkey!), so our current situation in life is constantly improving. It's improving so much in fact that I proposed to Megan last month! We're getting married on 7-7-07 (kewl huh?)! Now unfortunately, there's not a Shaolin Do kwoon here where I can join and continue my kung fu training, but that's okay because I feel I have enough material that I can practice on my own, and who knows maybe someday I'll open up a kwoon of my own. Right now, I'm teaching myself a straight sword (djinn) weapons form whose written instruction (with step by step diagrams) was given to me by a friend, and I'm riding the high I get from learning new material. Anyway, now that I don't have the convenience of a teacher and classmates to learn with, I must strengthen my resolve and excercise discipline to retain what I've learned and continue to grow stronger through training.

                     Another neat thing that happened to me is my recent initiation (thank you thank you) and I decided to post my beliefs at the Museum of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Harold Washington Library, because I'm Thelemite and proud and (ohmygod is that Baphomet?!), get over it! :P Okay my brain is about to explode and my eyes are bleeding, so I think that pretty much sums things up about me and what the hell I've been doing for the past couple of years. I like cheese.