Salon.com: Bradley Manning's forced nudity to occur daily
To follow-up on yesterday's observations about the prolonged forced nudity to which Bradley Manning has been subjected the last two days: brig officials now confirm to The New York Times that Manning will be forced to be nude every night from now on for the indefinite future -- not only when he sleeps, but also when he stands outside his cell for morning inspection along with the other brig detainees. They claim that it is being done "as a 'precautionary measure' to prevent him from injuring himself."
It's become quite obvious over the past years that President Obama is fully dedicated to continuing and expanding the human rights abuses of the War on Terror. As I've said here earlier, not only has his administration guaranteed immunity for the previous one, but has also sought the right to summarily execute American citizens. Now the methods used by the Bush administration to brutalize "terrorists" are also being turned on US citizens.
This, then, is the change that we can believe in.
New president? Same as the old president.
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In other news:
Crunchgear: Judge Allows Sony’s Request For Identifying Information For Anyone Who Visited Hacker’s Sites
This is a rather disturbing turn of events. Federal Magistrate Joseph Spero has approved a request by Sony to subpoena the hacker GeoHot’s web host, as well as YouTube, Google, and Twitter, for identifying information on anyone who has accessed, commented, or viewed information relating to the hack. At best this is lazy on Sony’s part and irresponsible on Magistrate Spero’s, and at worst it is a deliberate and malicious wholesale violation of privacy.
Read the article and think about that for a moment: Sony is subpoenaing to get the IP address of everyone who viewed a web page.
What privacy?
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