Felix Barrett / Revolution Newspaper
My story was going to start one way, and totally shifted after I did some investigating when I was downloading a photo from the original story I’l be linking. You see, the date of the photo didn’t correspond with the story, so it got me wondering. I did some searching and found that the photo, along with the one above, was from November of 2007. But first, back to why I was originally blogging about this story.
Philadelphia Daily News writer, Will Bunch, had the opportunity to ask Barack Obama if his administration would take on the former Bush administration for the fact that they supposedly allowed "torture."
Here is an excerpt from Bunch's article:
Tonight I had an opportunity to ask Barack Obama a question that is on the minds of many Americans, yet rarely rises to the surface in the great ruckus of the 2008 presidential race -- and that is whether an Obama administration would seek to prosecute officials of a former Bush administration on the revelations that they greenlighted torture, or for other potential crimes that took place in the White House.
Obama said that as president he would indeed ask his new Attorney General and his deputies to "immediately review the information that's already there" and determine if an inquiry is warranted -- but he also tread carefully on the issue, in line with his reputation for seeking to bridge the partisan divide. He worried that such a probe could be spun as "a partisan witch hunt." However, he said that equation changes if there was willful criminality, because "nobody is above the law."
The question was inspired by a recent report by ABC News, confirmed by the Associated Press, that high-level officials including Vice President Dick Cheney and former Cabinet secretaries Colin Powell, John Ashcroft and Donald Rumsfeld, among others, met in the White House and discussed the use of waterboarding and other torture techniques on terrorism suspects.
And the complete article ê here
Obama would ask his AG to "immediately review" potential of crimes in Bush White House
Let's all remember, we've waterboarded a couple terrorists....and we haven't seen a terrorist attack on U.S. soil since 9-11....
So, now back to the picture.
Here we see a demonstration of waterboarding.
That got me a bit interested.
A "demonstration?"
Why do we need a demonstration of "torture?"
If waterboarding is indeed "torture," who in their right mind is going to demonstrate the procedure, especially if it is so bad?
Would you demonstrate attaching electrical wires to someone and firing them up?
Mutilating someone?
I checked these photos out and found that this "demonstration" was at none other than UC Berkeley!
Well, go figure.
People want war crime trials against the former Bush administration - Ashcroft, Rumsfeld and Powell - for discussing waterboarding?
How about these liberal Berkeley students demonstrating ...no, correction....actually performing waterboarding?
How about prosecuting these men for performing "torture" on a fellow U.S. citizen?
Let's check out the entire "demonstration" at Berkeley ç here
Is there ever any police presence in Berkeley?
Oh, wait, I do recall seeing some when Code Pink was blocking the doors of the Marine recruiting center illegally.
They just let it go on.
So I guess the answer is no, there really isn't any police presence in Berkeley
There are just liberals.
