Newshoggers Archive: Bradley Manning: Silence Gives Consent To Torture

Farewell. The Flying Pig Has Left The Building.

Steve Hynd, August 16, 2012

After four years on the Typepad site, eight years total blogging, Newshoggers is closing it's doors today. We've been coasting the last year or so, with many of us moving on to bigger projects (Hey, Eric!) or simply running out of blogging enthusiasm, and it's time to give the old flying pig a rest.

We've done okay over those eight years, although never being quite PC enough to gain wider acceptance from the partisan "party right or wrong" crowds. We like to think we moved political conversations a little, on the ever-present wish to rush to war with Iran, on the need for a real Left that isn't licking corporatist Dem boots every cycle, on America's foreign misadventures in Afghanistan and Iraq. We like to think we made a small difference while writing under that flying pig banner. We did pretty good for a bunch with no ties to big-party apparatuses or think tanks.

Those eight years of blogging will still exist. Because we're ending this typepad account, we've been archiving the typepad blog here. And the original blogger archive is still here. There will still be new content from the old 'hoggers crew too. Ron writes for The Moderate Voice, I post at The Agonist and Eric Martin's lucid foreign policy thoughts can be read at Democracy Arsenal.

I'd like to thank all our regular commenters, readers and the other bloggers who regularly linked to our posts over the years to agree or disagree. You all made writing for 'hoggers an amazingly fun and stimulating experience.

Thank you very much.

Note: This is an archive copy of Newshoggers. Most of the pictures are gone but the words are all here. There may be some occasional new content, John may do some posts and Ron will cross post some of his contributions to The Moderate Voice so check back.

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Saturday, March 5, 2011

Bradley Manning: Silence Gives Consent To Torture

By Steve Hynd

This, from Kevin Drum:

I'd just like to second Jane Hamsher, Mark Kleiman, Glenn Greenwald, and everyone else who's appalled at the way we're treating Bradley Manning. If he's guilty of a crime, then try him and sentence him. Until then, as Mark says, "This is a total disgrace. It shouldn�t be happening in this country. You can�t be unaware of this, Mr. President. Silence gives consent."

Of course, Obama's silence on Bush era torturing - his wish to "look forward" and sweep it all under the carpet - also comprises consent, and makes him a criminal accessory after the fact along with everyone in his administration who goes along with this policy.

All of which is the primary reason I will not support Obama's campaign for re-election. "Silence gives consent".

1 comment:

geoffMarch 5, 2011 at 6:37 AM
Only real question some brave WH reporter needs to ask BO next time he condescends to have a press conference is: "Mr. President which way does your mother spin in her grave? Is it clockwise or counter clockwise?"
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