much has been said about reinstating this supreme court judge and in the original story he was quoted as wanting the girl to be brought in front of him

yet, this guy goes to the village…and will probably get the girl punished again in private even though she denied the video happened

all to say to the american public that this guy should have been reinstated sooner

as said earlier the punishment should have been in private…YES, OF COURSE!!!

1) Religious extremists beat a girl for violating a silly taboo.

2) Publicity causes international condemnation.

3) The girl denies the incident ever occurred.

Of course we should believe her denial. What possible reason could she have to kowtow to brutal thugs?

No one should be surprised at the girl denying that she was flogged now that the Taliban have been embarrassed by the video. After all she is still living among these murderous killjoys and knows that they can do much worse to her.

I will stipulate that consensual recreational spanking can be quite a hoot and should in no way be construed as torture. Especially if you are prudent and use a safe word.

Although I will not plead diminished capacity, I should also stipulate that could be the bedtime vodka tonic talking. But probably not.

AY, I am of the school that says anything can be funny if properly approached. As evidence, I present the late master: George Carlin.

I am only kidding. The things some people will say to you.

Check this out. More reports from Red Cross.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/07/world/07detain.html?hp

From the article:

“Based on statements by 14 prisoners who belonged to Al Qaeda and were moved to Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, in late 2006, Red Cross investigators concluded that medical professionals working for the C.I.A. monitored prisoners undergoing waterboarding, apparently to make sure they did not drown. Medical workers were also present when guards confined prisoners in small boxes, shackled their arms to the ceiling, kept them in frigid cells and slammed them repeatedly into walls, the report said.

Facilitating such practices, which the Red Cross described as torture, was a violation of medical ethics even if the medical workers’ intentions had been to prevent death or permanent injury, the report said. But it found that the medical professionals’ role was primarily to support the interrogators, not to protect the prisoners, and that the professionals had “condoned and participated in ill-treatment.”

At times, according to the detainees’ accounts, medical workers “gave instructions to interrogators to continue, to adjust or to stop particular methods.”

The Red Cross report was completed in 2007. It was obtained by Mark Danner, a journalist who has written extensively about torture, and posted Monday night with an article by Mr. Danner on the Web site of The New York Review of Books. Much of its contents were revealed in a March article by Mr. Danner and in a 2008 book, “The Dark Side,” by Jane Mayer of The New Yorker, but the Red Cross investigators’ conclusions on medical ethics and other issues are new. ”
___

Any doubt about war crimes now, Obama? You, Holder? What is described above is just one step away from Josef Mengele. The longer you drag your feet, it’s bad for your chances come re-election and increases the eventual cost of the payback to those who violated our Constitution. But pay they will. It’s your choice as to whether it’s in court or not. We the People might just be happy with Cheney in prison. Soon that won’t be enough.

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/

And get ‘em, Jill.