Never In Our Names

NION is an online community focusing issues involving human rights and individual dignity. The authors use a statement authored by an 11-year-old, "All you have to do to qualify for human rights is to be human." Commentary and topics cover opposition to torture, rendition, illegal imprisonment and indefinite detention without due process.

Author: NION is the brainchild of three like-minded people who met at Daily Kos: Alexa, mikk0 and Unitary Moonbat.

Blawg Related Categories: Civil Rights • Constitutional Law • Criminal Justice • Military Law • Terrorism • Guantanamo/Detainees

Recent Posts from Never In Our Names

Democracies In Trouble
It would seem that our democracies in Canada and the U.S.A. are not the only ones ailing - especially with regards to the increasing - and successful - assaults on our privacy and civil liberties…
Dos Palabras
Barack Obama Statement on FISA; Monday January 28, 2008. I strongly oppose retroactive immunity in the FISA bill. Ever since 9/11, this Administration has put forward a false choice between the liberties we cherish and…
Guantanamo staff trashing web sites and spreading propoganda
The Wikileaks group have struck again. Today they revealed that Guantanamo staff have been engaged in a campaign of propaganda, revising the web encyclopedia Wikipedia entries, including removing detainee IDs from Wikipedia, and posting pro-Guantanamo…
No Moral Compass: Pelosi, Democrats, & the WP Revelations
Crossposted at Invictus and Daily Kos Notoriously (depending upon your point of view), this past weekend the Washington Post published an article revealing that a number of top Democrats and Republicans were briefed in September…
I'm Depressed......
because of the "Great Forgetting." That's how commonscribe eloquently and originally described what has happened regarding Katrina and New Orleans. The Great Forgetting can be seen in how BushCo has been successfully keeping Katrina and…
Did destroyed CIA tapes show psychologists torturing? Did APA dodge a bullet?
Last night we had news that the CIA, in 2005, destroyed videotapes of the "interrogation", aka, torture, of two al Qaeda detainees. One of these detainees has been identified as Abu Zubaydah. Of special relevance…
Another Major Guantanamo Document Leaked
Also posted at Daily Kos and Invictus First it was the leak of the 2003 Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) Manual for Guantanamo. The SOP included procedures for psychological torture and abusive conditions of detention, including…
Ole Miss Should Not Host A Debate
The first nominees' debate of 2008 is slated for Ole Miss in Oxford, Mississippi on Sept. 26. Ole Miss has to be the most undeserving debate venue and Oxford the most unqualified community selected, and…
'I will never leave Guantanamo'
crossposted from dailykos This is about a man, whom his lawyer calls "Joseph" for the faithful husband. And it begins very bluntly: "WE HAVE important news for you!" Chained to the floor of a cell…
Starting a Great War
Historical analogies that rely for strength upon generally-held assumptions - often exemplified by a folksy appeal to authority in the form of the phrase, "they say" - carry with them both advantage and disadvantage. The…