Well, since you did mention Latin America, it's worth noting that last year Brazil completed an all-electronic election that certainly appears to be in keeping with what the polls were showing. It's also worth noting that voting in Brazil is mandatory.
Fred:
Maybe they'll have this fate.
Kynn,
They were both owned by Westinghouse and through the various mergers are now owned by Infinity.
Well I mised the excitement, except I4m stuck here in Brazil. We were supposed to leave tonight from Belo Horizonte connecting with a flight to New York from Se3o Paulo. The flight to New York was canceled and by the time I was able to get us on another flight, I can4t leave until Sunday night and I have to travel for work on Wednesday. Things could be worse, but I4m still peeved.
Well, I can't accomplish number one for two reasons, but Me9rcia Maria Esteves Barbosa makes the world's best lentil soup and I'd be willing to trade recipes.
Patrick,
Thanks for the kind words!
Patrick,
The Center for Immigration Studies has a more subtly couched (compared to FAIR and Dan Stein) ant-immigration point of view.
The US ratified the Convention Against Torture in 1994 and the implementation legislation was passed and signed into law shortly thereafter. As I have posted in my own blog here, torture is a crime. It was a crime on September 10 and it remains a crime to this day. "Rendering" Al Qaeda members to third party countries to be tortured is also a violation of the Convention Against Torture. From a moral standpoint, I think it's beneath contempt.
One thing that anyone who believes that torture could be effective and who have no qualms about having it done should ask themselves is this: if it's the right thing to do, why is it done in secret?
By the way, George H. W. Bush signed the Torture Victim Protection Act into law in the early 1990's. This provides for a civil action to be sought in Federal Court against accused torturers. Clearly Father knows best on this subject.
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