A couple of updates to the case of the injustice carried out against Cecily McMillan, which I wrote about earlier today.
The updates are from the UK paper the Guardian, which has given this story comprehensive coverage throughout, unlike the American mainstream press, which, if it covers it at all, usually buries it -- in the case of the New York Times, in the NY Region section, even though it's a case with national implications.
(Oh, and I'm still looking for it at NPR, whose website shows nothing about the case. Surprise, surprise.)
Because the U.S. has turned into a country that tortures people with impunity -- and brags about it -- the news that a federal appeals court has ruled against a "detainee," an "enemy combatant," comes as no surprise.
Courts are a reflection of the society in which they exist. They're not on Mount Olympus. And the courts since 9/11 especially have repeatedly sided with the government and against civil liberties and plain old ordinary justice.
Justice, you scoff, ha! What does justice have to do with anything?
When are you people going to fucking get it??
Our government is spying on all of us and using the information it collects not only to gate-rape us at the airport, which the masses of sheeple don't give a shit about, but to target and harass people based purely on their ethnicity.
Do you even pay attention to what's going on in this country?
Wait -- lemme guess -- "it's okay as long as it doesn't happen to me!"
In a revelation that only somebody living under a rock could possibly find surprising, the federal government wants not only your passwords, but the encryption on your passwords.
