Extraordinary Rendition 5/6

Song of the day: Firework - Katy Perry

9:41 - Last night i watched the movie Rendition, the movie enhanced my knowledge on the subject in a few ways.

1. They showed some of the torture techniques used such as water boarding, electric shock, dark spaces etc.

2. They showed exactly the command of how someone is picked up.

3. One of the characters said, "This is my first torture." the senator responded, "The United State does not torture." This shows how wrong the act truly is.

10:09 - I just made my flyer to get people to come see what the US government does.

10:21 - I just found an article on the first time CIA agents were found guilty of Extra Ordinary Rendition

Theres the bell, bye.

Extraordinary Rendition 5/4

Song of the Day: Born This Way - Lady Gaga

I JUST LOOOOOVE LADY GAGA!! lolz

Today is movie day...i basically just watched stuff. I started with the Frontline video on the subject and then im re-watching the documentary "Toruturing Democracy"

Sooo im gonna do that now, baii!!

Issues Project - 5/3

Song of the Day: Party in the USA - Miley Cyrus

HAPPY TEACHER APPRECIATION DAY MR. KRAMER!!! WE APPRECIATE YOU.

If you want to learn more about Mr. Kramer and his fabulous work...well your pretty much sh*t out of luck. But he does do some great stuff.

11:42 - hay guys lol ;) im bak

11:43 - To continue my post from yesterday the anaylists first began to talk about the "ticking time bomb theory" this theory is that there is a bomb somewhere, ticking to go off, and the detainee has information of where the bomb is being located that will save the lives of millions of people. I'll put the question really big for emphasis (lol)

IS TORTURE HERE JUSTIFIED??!?

11:52 - So i decided to watch the video on Frontline about Extraordinary Rendition, if you want to watch it too, here you go!!!!!! lol

12:02 - So the video didn't work (lolz) and i decided to find more research. I just found a spead sheet, which you can see here. This is a list of known Renditions. One guy jumps out at me, named Rifa'i Ahmad Taha. Taha was detained on his way to Iran from Sudan (where Luol Deng is from, lol) In a military tribunal, which he was not even allowed to attend, he was sentecned to death. Is that legal? Isn't one of the laws you have the right to face your accusers?

12:15 - Okay this document probably has good information in it but its like 3000000 pages...no wonder the people in government fight so much, they have NO lives!! Look at this.

12:23 - This document is really long and i am going to spend some time to end the class and begin tomorrow reading it. Here is a link if you are interested.

TTFN homies. lol

Issues: Final Project Research 5/2

Song of the Day: New Radicals - You Get What You Give

9:54 - OH EM GEE!! I just found the only source i need. Frontline did an episode on Extraordinary Rendition. When i visited their website i found link upon link about every aspect of Extraordinary Rendition. If your curious to which link i am reffering to, here it is.

10:14 - First article is called "Is Torture Ever Justified?" This is a roundtable discussion between these people:
Juliette Kayyem is a lecturer at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and is a co-author, along with Philip Heymann, of the report that came out of the Harvard joint project.

Oren Gross is a professor at the University of Minnesota Law School and is an expert on the Middle East and the Arab-Israeli conflict. In his writings, Gross advocates a ban on torture, but he would allow the forgiveness after the fact of public officials who used torture in emergency situations. Some call his proposal "OAF," or "outlaw-and-forgive."

Sanford Levinson is a professor at the University of Texas at Austin and is the editor of the 2004 book, Torture: A Collection.

Tom Parker is a fellow at Brown University and was an adviser for the Harvard project. For six years in the 1990s, he was a counter-terrorist investigator in Great Britain. He contributed an appendix to the Harvard report on Britain's experience confronting terrorism in Northern Ireland.

David Rivkin is a lawyer in Washington D.C., and has served in the Reagan and George H.W. Bush administrations. He writes frequently on law, defense and foreign policy.

Michael Traynor is a San Francisco lawyer who served on the advisory board of the Harvard project. He wrote a letter of dissent to the project's authors disagreeing with their recommendations on coercive interrogations.

The big theory discussed is the so-called "Ticking Time-Bomb Theory"

UH OH, BELL RANG GEE TWO GEE!!