The Guantánamo “Suicides”: A Camp Delta sergeant blows the whistle. Many comedians consider stand-up the purest form of comedy; Doug Stanhope considers it the freest. “Once you do stand-up, it spoils you for everything else,” he says. “You’re the director, performer, and producer.” Unlike most of his peers, however, Stanhope has designed his career around exploring that freedom, which means choosing a life on the road. Perhaps this is why, although he is extremely ambitious, prolific, and one of the best stand-ups performing, so many Americans haven’t heard of him. Many comedians approach the road as a means to an end: a way to develop their skills, start booking bigger venues, and, if they’re lucky, get themselves airlifted to Hollywood.
But life isn’t happening on a sit-com set or a sketch show — at least not the life that has interested Stanhope. Because of the present comedy boom, civilians are starting to hear about Doug Stanhope from other comedians like Ricky Gervais, Sarah Silverman, and Louis CK. Behind the Danziger Bridge Shooting | Watch FRONTLINE Online. Aired: 06/28/201106:30Rating: NR As a federal trial gets underway, a look back at the infamous post-Katrina shooting by police that killed two unarmed citizens and wounded four.
Five current and former NOPD officers face charges ranging from civil rights violations to covering up the incident. Behind the Danziger Bridge Shooting A look back at the infamous post-Katrina police shooting as the federal trial begins. Funding for FRONTLINE is provided through the support of PBS viewers and by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. UK's secret policy on torture revealed | Politics. A top-secret document revealing how MI6 and MI5 officers were allowed to extract information from prisoners being illegally tortured overseas has been seen by the Guardian.
The interrogation policy – details of which are believed to be too sensitive to be publicly released at the government inquiry into the UK's role in torture and rendition – instructed senior intelligence officers to weigh the importance of the information being sought against the amount of pain they expected a prisoner to suffer. It was operated by the British government for almost a decade. A copy of the secret policy showed senior intelligence officers and ministers feared the British public could be at greater risk of a terrorist attack if Islamists became aware of its existence.
"For instance, it is possible that in some circumstances such a revelation could result in further radicalisation, leading to an increase in the threat from terrorism. " It also: The Dirty Secret About 'Clean' Torture. By Darius Rejali, professor and Chair of political science at Reed College Maher Arar Imagine if you were arrested in a foreign country and for nine days the police beat you with a shredded electric cable. Now imagine, three days after the beatings stop, the police take you to meet your country’s embassy counsel.
The police threaten you with more torture if you speak of the beatings. Fearful of their threats, you hope the scars of torture will reveal the injustice. But your counsel sees no marks and you are led back to your cell where the torture continues. This is what happened to Canadian Maher Arar. The story of Maher Arar’s torture From October 9 through 17, 2002, Syrian interrogators beat Maher Arar with a shredded two-inch diameter electric cable. Arar says that his hands were sore and red for three weeks. On October 23, Syrian interrogators took Arar to meet the Canadian counsel, Leo Martel. Actually, human beings are poor judges when trying to assess if someone is lying. The Quest for Meaning.