Showing posts with label human rights. Show all posts
Showing posts with label human rights. Show all posts

Rollback

Or, how the right to choose slowly became illegal in America. And it happened pretty much without a fight.

Because savvy marketing and emotionalism have trumped realism and the brutal reality these laws are forcing on women.

It is a shame we'll have to deeply return to the "good ole days" of high birth mortality and childbirth fatalities before anyone will figure out what all this was about in the first place.

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Impunity

Justice Clarence Thomas and the Right-Wing of the Supreme Court of the United States of America have recently ruled that a prosecutor can knowingly rob 14 years off your life and nearly get you murdered under state sanction, and they can do it with near absolute impunity from prosecution or punitive damages.

I'll let Jeffrey show you the round-up.

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Torturing Your Way To Freedom

Of course, if this view gains any traction, the neocons and defenders of George W. Bush's Presidential legacy will let us know this was all part of their double-secret plan to bring real democracy and human rights to the Middle East.

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