Housekeeping

[pecunium]

So... the recent posts on torture have caused a small number of people to add me.

Welcome. I can always use the company. Feel free to comment, link, refer, etc. I do have some rules, but by and large, this is Liberty Hall; you can spit on the floor and call the cat a bastard, so long as you aren't rude to the other guests.

Which isn't to say you can't be heated, emotional, etc. Past performance may grant certain leeways, etc. It's my place, and my rules, and that's pretty much the lot.

It's not all politics all the time. I've been, of late; in fact, not doing a lot of, "substantive" posts. Pretty pictures and the occasional rumination.

So, put up your feet and set a spell.

Comments

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

I think there is no question of ex-post facto, because we have several laws on the books which deal with torture, and war crimes, and they were the reason these memos are trying to parse out some wiggle room in the applications of torture.

There is clear congressional action on the subject (quite apart from Art. 3 of the Geneva Conventions being law in equal standing with the Constitution, so long as it is not repudtiated).

What we have here is an argument that basically runs... "the President's lawyer says it's legal, so you can't touch me."

Which is bad precedent.