So...this recently happened in our country, where 22% of us can name all five Simpsons family members, but just 1 in 1,000 of us can name all five freedoms granted under the First Amendment... Hedges writes: ... the hack into Stratfor gave the email address and disclosed the password of an account used for business by [Judge Loretta A.] Preska’s husband, Thomas Kavaler, a partner at the law firm Cahill Gordon & Reindel. Some emails of the firm’s corporate clients, including Merrill Lynch, also were exposed. The National Lawyers Guild, because the judge’s husband was a victim of the hack, filed a recusal motion that Preska, as chief judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, was able to deny. Her refusal to recuse herself allowed her to oversee a trial in which she had a huge conflict of interest. Its hard to come to grips with just what a punitive society weve become. Hedges adds, The sentencing converges with the state’s persecution of Chelsea Manning, Edward Snowden, Julian Assange and Barrett Brown, along with Glenn Greenwald, Jacob Appelbaum, Laura Poitras and Sarah Harrison, four investigative journalists who are now in self-imposed exile from the United States. And as the numbers of our political prisoners and exiled dissidents mount, there is the unmistakable stench of tyranny.
Posted on: Mon, 18 Nov 2013 17:15:15 +0000