FOX News Polls - Poll: Steady Support for Action Against Iraq A majority of the public continues to support the United States taking military action to disarm Iraq and remove Saddam Hussein, and there is evidence of growing impatience for the action. A FOX News poll conducted this week finds 71 percent of Americans support using U.S. forces to disarm Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and 20 percent oppose. Support has been at about the same level for the last eight weeks. This leads to a growing number of Americans who agree, “it’s time to get it over with in Iraq.” Additional delays in military action could reflect negatively on President Bush. Among those who support an invasion, more than half say a delay would make them feel less favorable toward President Bush. "The public continues to trust the case that the president has made on Iraq," comments Opinion Dynamics President John Gorman. The U.N. Much fanfare was given this week to renaming items using the word French. Amen! Polling was conducted by telephone March 11-12, 2003 in the evenings. 8.
Journalist Sues New York Police Over Brutal Arrest at Occupy Anniversary NYPD arresting Occupy protesters on October 1st, 2011.Photo Credit: Adrian Kinloch/Flickr January 2, 2014 | Like this article? Join our email list: Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email. A journalist known for his coverage of the Occupy movement is now suing the New York police for beating him and warning him to stop reporting. Christopher Faraone, a news and features editor at the Boston-based Dig, is suing the New York Police Department. “Despite holding my pad and camera in clear view at the time — and loudly announcing myself as a reporter — I was tackled, zip-tied, and hauled off to jail,” he wrote in September. While in prison, Faraone says he was denied his right to speak to an attorney. Faraone is the author of the book 99 Nights With the 99 Percent.
The Swift Report: Good News for Gonzales: New Poll Shows Most Americans Think 'Some Torture' OK President Bush's candidate for attorney general, Alberto Gonzales, got a boost today with the release of a poll indicating that most Americans back his position on torture: it's ok to induce physical agony in individuals suspected of crimes, if it is for a good reason. Support for torture highest among viewers of Fox News Channel By Deanna Swift A poll released this week shows that a majority of Americans share the position of President Bush's nominee for attorney general when it comes to torture: it's ok when done for the right reasons. Results of the poll are seen as an important boost to the candidacy of Alberto Gonzales, Bush's choice to replace the outgoing attorney general, John Ashcroft. (Note: click thumbnails to enlarge poll images.) Pro Bush, pro torture"It makes sense that you have roughly the same percentage of people supporting Bush that support torture," says Gary Schweid, an advisor to the White House on legal affairs. The Fox effect How this Polltronics poll was conducted
davidgraeber : @nzmrmn police violence during... Weekly Standard: Against Rendition Question: Mr. President, under the law, how would you justify the practice of renditioning, where U.S. agents . . . [send] terror suspects abroad, taking them to a third country for interrogation? . . . Answer: . . . SO SPOKE PRESIDENT Bush at a press conference on April 28, 2005. Though the Central Intelligence Agency doesn't comment officially on the policy, it is one the Bush administration inherited from its predecessor, which used it principally against Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda. A byproduct of Langley's decades-old inability to recruit or secrete agents inside many Middle Eastern organizations, the increasing use of friendly Arab liaison services is actually part of a global pattern, where liaison work has gradually taken priority over "unilateral" (CIA-only) clandestine operations. The moral issues surrounding rendition are what has caught the attention of the press and both Democratic and Republican members of Congress.
nzmrmn : .@davidgraeber Honest question,... Survey shows no tolerance for Torture Survey shows no tolerance for Torture Enshrined in the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 5 states, "No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment". Taking this as our theme, the Gallup International Millennium Survey asked people in countries representing more than 1.5 billion citizens of the world whether they felt this basic right was fully or partially respected in their own country, or not respected at all. Overwhelmingly, in the more sophisticated democracies of Western Europe and North America more than eight out of every ten believe that Human Rights in respect of torture are respected. Overall citizens of the world seem to be agreed that the right not to be subjected to torture, cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment is broadly respected and only eight countries show minorities who believe this. As a region, Latin America feels there is little respect for this basic human right. How to stop it Meril James
davidgraeber : If the press think it isn't... Britain Accused Over CIA’s Secret Torture Flights - Empire? - Global Policy Forum UK airports are believed to be operational bases for two executive jets used by the CIA to carry out 'renditions' of terror suspects. IndependentFebruary 10, 2005 Britain's intelligence agencies have been accused of helping America in a secret operation that is sending terror suspects to Middle Eastern countries where prisoners are routinely tortured and abused. Since 11 September 2001, the CIA has been systematically seizing suspects and sending them, without legal process, not only to Guantanamo Bay but to authorities in countries such as Egypt, Jordan and Syria. Human rights campaigners say the system, officially known as "extraordinary rendition" is a system of torture by proxy. Britain maintains the main reason it will not deport prisoners being held without charge at Belmarsh prison is the fear they will be tortured or otherwise abused by their home country. Britain is also an operational base for two executive jets regularly used by the CIA to carry out so-called "renditions".