No Tears for Pinochet's Suffering

Hey Mr. Pinochet,
You've sown a bitter crop.
It's foreign money that supports you.
One day the money's going to stop.
No wages for your torturers;
No budget for your guns.
Can you think of your own mother
Dancin' with her invisible son?

- - Sting, They Dance Alone

Notorious Chilean dictator of the late 20th Century, Augusto Pinochet has suffered a heart attack and he is in serious condition. The brutal overseer of torture and death never had to face justice in this life for his injustices against humanity. Even as I have a father who suffered from a heart attack, my sympathies for Pinochet are as cold as stone when I think of the Chilean mothers of the disappeared who were made to suffer at the hand of this tyrant and who will one day drawing nigh dance on his grave.

What's In Store for Declared "Unlawful Enemy Combatants"

When the government suspends our legal due process and the centuries old safeguards of habeas corpus, then it can do anything it wants to people:

And if you believe that it will not happen to ordinary Americans like you and me, you'll need a dose of Professor Jonathan Turley's realism about how America has fundamentally changed since last week's signing of the Military Commission's Act:



Where were you? What did you do when this thing was signed into law?