Well, it turns out that, toward the end of 2002, the DOD adpted a set of interrogation techniques derived, knowingly or not, from the practices of the PRC during the Korean War. Wow! The Yellow Peril/Red Terror meets Islomofascism and the restored Caliphate. "Coercive Management Techniques" as it is referred to in bureaucrat-speak, including but not necessarily limited to sleep deprivation [I tell you, w/o a good night's sleep, I'm a real prick and generally ain't good for jack], prolonged constraint, and exposure. These were based on an US Air Force study in 1957 re the Chinese interrogation techiques in the Korean War which were used to compel US POWs to make numerous false confessions and damning propagnda statements denouncing the good old USA. Quite an unwelcome thought so close to July 4th, I would think.
Well, better break out those DVDs of "The Mancghurian Candidate" "Time Limit" and "The Bamboo Prison" [among others].
I just love how, to fight the cutrrent enemy, we adopt the methods and echniques of the former enemy. Sigh.
[Highly selective] excerpt : "The recycled chart is the latest and most vivid evidence of the way Communist interrogation methods that the United States long described as torture became the basis for interrogations both by the military at the base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and by the Central Intelligence Agency." But we also note that in 2005 Congress banned the use of these techniques by the DOD The CIA is not effected by that ban, though.
Our second dispatch from OOOPS! Land revisits last weeks SC ruling which deemed unconstitution the imposition of the death penealty as a punishment for the rape of a child. Justice Kennedy wtote the majority decision, and in it he made mention of how "evolving standards of decency" made such a [draconian?] punishment cruel and unusul. His declaration was based on the assertion that only 6 states currently punished child rape with a capital sentence, and of theose 6 states, only Louisianna currently had inmates [2] on death row awaiting the imposition of the ultimate sanction. It was also stated by Justice Kennedy that the 30 other states which provide for capital punishment do not include child rape as a capital crime. It was also noted that the federal govt does not make child rape a capital offense.
But it turns out that Justice Kennedy's research was incorrect. In 2006 the Uniform Code of Military Justice was amended to provide for the death penelty for child rape. This error in no way invalidateds the decision, but certainly allows for additional criticism of the 5-4 decision, which provoked a stinging fire-and-brimstone dissent.
The US Dept of Justice has taken responsibilty for the error. Interestingly, Jefferson Parish [the defendents in the case Kennedy v. Louisianna] are said to be considering whether this factual error will allow the basis for a reconsideration of the decision. . This procedure is known as a Rehearing Petition. And what of this straw in the wind? La. Governor Bobby Jindal denounced the SC decision, and his office is said to be involved in the decision whether or not to request a reharing petition. That Gov Jundal gets mentioned, fom time to time, as potential Vice Prresidential timber is,I'm sure, in no way relevant.
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