Robot Monkeys

Taking a page out of Daddy’s play book, GWB will pardon everyone connected to his “War on Terror,” “even though they committed no crime.” He’ll even pardon himself.

You heard it here first folks.

Which brings up a bigger issue. The power of the Presidential Pardon. It’s too much power. It’s a tool for politically connected cronies to get out of jail free. Richard Nixon, Patty Hearst, Marc Rich, Casper Weinberger, Scooter Libby (okay, that’s technically a commutation, but it’s the same power). Normal people have to go to jail, pay fines. Politically connected people on the other hand, including the President himself, are above the law.

That should be changed, but it won’t be, because it would just be “too painful and divisive.”

U.S. Major Gen. Antonio Taguba (Ret.):

There is no longer any doubt that the current administration committed war crimes. The only question is whether those who ordered torture will be held to account.

Sorry Tony. There’s no question of that either. They won’t be.

What should happen is that the International Criminal Court should issue an arrest warrant, and then the principles: George W, Cheney, Rummy, John Yoo, Scooter Libby, and the whole lot, should be arrested as soon as they step off the plane in a foreign country. Hell, Interpol should take a page out of their playbook and perform an “extraordinary rendition” and arrest them here.

Hell! Why the hell isn’t the Berkley city council ordering the Berkeley PD to arrest John Yoo at his office at 890 Simon Hall? I’ll tell you why. Because unlike the fucking Berkeley Nuclear Free Zone, this would actually achieve something, and hippies aren’t about achieving real change. They’re all about “sending messages” and forming drum circles and raging against the war machine and what not. Just not achieving real change.

Let the show trials begin.

CNN resports Attorney General Mukasey has appointed John Durham, a prosecutor from the U.S. attorney’s office in Connecticut, to lead a criminal investigation into the destruction of the CIA torture tapes.

Color me surprised. Not that this was a criminal act, but that Attorney General Michael “I don’t know if it’s torture or not.” Mukasey said said there likely was a criminal act. Of course he didn’t appoint an independent counsel, but that’s because we should just trust the government and of course, independent counsels are political tools.