Twitter This Commentary In The News: You Can Only Squeeze a teabag so many times... There will be a big squeeze on congress by the 'tea-baggers' over the next couple of days as 'hundreds' show up in Washington DC to lobby against the Health Care Reform bill which will be voted on in Congress this Saturday and most likely move to the Senate where it will be surgically stalled by the Republicans. An Italian court has found 23 US citizens guilty in absentia of torture over a rendition that happenstanced on Italian territory. Now that there have been convictions there WILL BE actionable international warrants issued for the perpetrators. The World According To Bill Fisher has a follow up on that Candian citizen denied justice in the US court system:

Wednesday, november 04, 2009 And Where Was A.G. Ashcroft? A.W.O.L. By William Fisher Bush-era Attorney General John Ashcroft had a busy day in court yesterday. A Federal Appeals court ruled he could not be held responsible for kidnapping a Canadian citizen in New York and shipping him off to Syria where he was imprisoned for a year and tortured. But, in another case, five men who had been living in New York and were ultimately deported won a $1.26 million settlement from the U.S. government in a suit accusing Ashcroft and other officials of racial profiling, illegal detention and abuse of Muslim, Arab and South Asian men in the days following the terrorist attacks of September 11th 2001. Yasser Ebrahim, one of the men held at the Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) in Brooklyn, NY after the post-9/11 sweeps and now living in Egypt, said: “We were deprived of our rights and abused simply because of our religion and the color of our skin. After seven long years, I am relieved to be able to try to rebuild my life. I know that I and others are still affected by what happened and that communities in the U.S. continue to feel the fallout. I sincerely hope this will never happen again.” In the second case, a federal Court of Appeals in New York dismissed Canadian citizen Maher Arar’s suit against Ashcroft and other U.S. officials for their role in sending him to Syria to be tortured. The court concluded that Arar’s case raised too many sensitive foreign policy and secrecy issues to permit relief. It leaves the federal officials involved free of any legal accountability for what they did. In a 7-4 decision, the Court wrote... [In Full]

The House of Representatives has passed an unemployment benefits extension, as if Americans need 'the dole' instead of an emergency job creation program similar to the 60s vintage Office of Economic Opportunity The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee has passed a climate control bill without any republican signatures whatsoever. Look at Baby NOW! The lawsuits by the Miss California/USA pageant against Carrie Prejean have been dropped now that news of her appearance in a porn flick has become public and her boobs are so "out there!" in a way they'd rather not be associated with. Musical Mental Imagery... below the fold (and without the 'staple through the navel'), in the "Notes". -30-
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