ace---like it or not, the investigations are about bringing criminal charges.
it doesn't matter whether you like it or not; it doesn't matter whether you imagine--against all evidence--that there's a justification for using torture.
personally, i think it'd be a considerable step forward in making it more difficult for regimes to engage in such practices were there to be such prosecutions. it's be a step toward placing legal limits around authoritarian reactionary regimes like that of george w bush.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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