Comments on: Special Guest: Len Rubenstein, President of Physicians for Human Rights

By: Margot

Margot — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 15:39:46 +0000

You have it exactly right, I think.

By: mui1

mui1 — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 14:50:29 +0000

Problems here, my comment got eaten. And error messages etc.

In response to pmorlan@118, it’s hard to be a voice for any of these people, when they simply disappear, and lawyers have had trouble corresponding with clients in the past. Don’t know what any new court ruling will do. Does anyone have faith that things will change, in regards to the “disappeared” in GITMO or any other black hole?

morning ECahn!

By: Kirk James Murphy, M.D.

Kirk James Murphy, M.D. — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 14:28:59 +0000

Mr Rubenstein, thank you for your answer and your work at PHR. You and your colleagues are an inspiration.

By: eCAHNomics

eCAHNomics — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 14:05:14 +0000

LHP

Brian Lehrer on wnyc is covering Bruno retirement.

By: TobyWollin

TobyWollin — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 14:03:58 +0000

Yep..there is speculation that our local senator, Tom Libous, is going to try to do a ‘Warren Anderson’ – the other GOP senator who’s in contention is from Long Island and there is always this whole ‘upstate/downstate’ thing.

By: pmorlan

pmorlan — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 14:03:32 +0000

I agree and that’s why it’s so important for the rest of us to be their voice.

By: pmorlan

pmorlan — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 14:01:45 +0000

Thanks Peter. I was hoping that someone would tell me this. The media, as always, is an impediment to an enlighted citizenry.

By: mui1

mui1 — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 14:01:31 +0000

A more likely scenario is that the victims will be so shattered like the Padilla, the Chinese Muslims and the victims in Naomi Klein’s shock doctrine, that they will not be able to testify in any coherent fashion. The human mind is way too fragile. And deliberately shattering the mind is just as big a crime as shattering the body. I don’t know that the courts agree.

By: pmorlan

pmorlan — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 14:00:42 +0000

Good point Wigwam.

I think we are all, in one way or another victims, of the Bush torture program it’s just that some of us are still in denial about that fact.

By: Peterr

Peterr — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 14:00:25 +0000

The religious community *has* been speaking out on this, but it largely has been ignored or dismissed. “Oh, the preachers are against torture,” says the editor to the reporter. “That’s a ‘Dog bites man’ story — go get me some real news.”

Sigh.