North Korea has announced a new time zone: “Pyongyang Time”. It moved its clocks by 30 minutes so that it would have its own time zone. The move was coordinated with the anniversary of the end of Japanese occupation and was made with the following announcement by the official news agency: “The wicked Japanese imperialists committed such unpardonable crimes as depriving Korea of even its standard time while mercilessly trampling down its land.” Time zones are not regulated by any international body so every country has the right to manage its time zones according to its own interests.
The fourth blogger in six months was assassinated in Bangladesh. Niloy Chatterjee was hacked to death for his criticism of religious extremism and his defense of secularism in Bangladesh. The bloggers have been demanding justice for those killed in Bangladesh’s war for independence in 1971. The UN, Amnesty International, and the The Committee to Protect Journalists have all demanded that the government investigate these deaths and prosecute those responsible. It is not likely that the government will take these demands very seriously.
The American Psychological Association has voted to prohibit its members from cooperating with the US government in torture practices on foreign soil. The vote was a victory for those psychologists who believe that the Association was morally derelict in colluding with “enhanced interrogation techniques” during the Bush Administration. The Association had been singled out in a report by David Hoffman who published a lengthy critique of the practices of the Association in supporting torture. This step is overdue, as is the prosecution of Bush-era officials who ordered and condoned the practices.
From the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948)
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It seems nothing short of a huge domestic populous demand for charges to be brought to Dick Cheney and others. Why is everyone else in the government unwilling to pursue these measures? I understand that the international community/ international organizations are putting a little pressure on our government through the UN but its all been preliminary investigations that are blocked by rules of ‘jurisdiction,’ the organization’s bureaucracy, ect. Can individual US states like Massachusetts call for trials and investigations? That would seem like a very good start.
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It seems nothing short of a huge domestic populous demand for charges to be brought to Dick Cheney and others would be remotely successful.**
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I doubt that any US state could bring charges–Federal law trumps state jurisdiction on matters of international law. And I sincerely doubt that any US government would ever bring charges against a former administration. Gerry Ford pre-emptively pardoned Richard Nixon on matters that were even more clear cut than the laws of war. But I can guarantee that some members of the Bush Administration will ever step foot on German soil.
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