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Doctors involved in CIA torture

vendredi 17 juin 2016 à 02:00

The CIA's Office of Medical Staff provided detailed advice for torture. The doctors who provided this advice betrayed their oath as physicians.

The American Psychological Association changed its professional standards to rule out such participation by its members.

Secretive, flawed terror watchlist

vendredi 17 juin 2016 à 02:00

Democrats Embrace Secretive, Flawed Terror Watchlist in Fight Against Gun Violence.

If there is concrete evidence that a person sympathizes with a terrorist group, it could be legitimate to deny per the right to own guns for that. However, doing so based on rumors is wrong.

As for the no-fly list, that is punishment without trial and must be abolished.

Publication of voter registration lists

vendredi 17 juin 2016 à 02:00

Is it right or wrong to publish voter registration lists — including their addresses — on the internet?

I expect that companies can afford to scrape the physical copies that were traditionally published, so the real question I think is whether to publish addresses and party affiliations.

Urgent: Conyers amendment

vendredi 17 juin 2016 à 02:00

US citizens: phone your congresscritter at (202) 224-3121 to say to support the Conyers amendment to ban the transfer of cluster bombs to Salafi Arabia.

Urgent: Maine woods

vendredi 17 juin 2016 à 02:00

US citizens: Tell Congress: "Oppose House Republicans' attempt to block the designation of a new national monument in the Maine woods."