Comments on: Court Awards $65 Million for the Men of the USS Pueblo

By: ian

ian — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 16:26:30 +0000

maybe this will pave the way for a congressional investigation into the attack on the USS Liberty by Israel. many of our soldiers were intentionally killed by the Israelis while trying to sink one of our intelligence collection ships during their war on the arabs. This incident was covered up and never honestly investigated. the survivors have never been compensated nor even had acknowledgement of what really happened. a stain on our history!

By: gevan

gevan — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 21:20:53 +0000

We now have a better guess at what those who have been captured and tortured by the U.S. will be able to collect when their cases wind their way through the courts.

By: rafflaw

rafflaw — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 02:19:54 +0000

Mespo,
Thanks for clearing up my confusion. I have never been part of a “chorus” before! 2 Million hits is a huge outcry as I think about it!

By: mespo727272

mespo727272 — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:12:45 +0000

rafflaw:

“Where is the public outcry over the United States becoming a nation that tortures?”

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Why it’s right here, where everything important starts–at the grassroots. Don’t expect leaders to lead these days, they just grab onto the horse as it gallops by, and then desperately climb onto the saddle. To those torturers, I say, “fear the blog ” – it’s our own little Greek chorus, and people do listen.

JT says it’s about 2 million hits annually just here in our little Committee of Correspondence — that’s more than Thomas Paine could have ever dreamed about. And to even frailly attempt to follow in the footsteps of men like Peyton Randolph, Robert Carter Nicholas, Richard Bland, Richard Henry Lee, Benjamin Harrison, Edmund Pendleton, Patrick Henry, Dudley Digges, Dabney Carr, Archibald Cary, and Thomas Jefferson, who comprised Virginia’s C of C, why that’s heady stuff.

By: rafflaw

rafflaw — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 12:46:06 +0000

I am happy for the men of the Pueblo, but I am not holding my breath that they will ever be able to collect the judgment. I remember the incident and how the US allowed our servicemen to be held and tortured. When the country found out that the sailors had been tortured there was a public and governmental outrage. I wish I could say the same thing when it was discovered that the Bush regime had ordered the torture of prisoners under our control. In fact, the administration has admitted to at least 3 cases of waterboarding which is torture under US and International law. Where is the public outcry over the United States becoming a nation that tortures?