Green Options » crimes http://greenoptions.com/tag/crimes Posts tagged 'crimes' Sun, 19 Apr 2009 21:47:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Torture Memos Set to Music http://ecolocalizer.com/2009/04/19/torture-memos-set-to-music/ http://ecolocalizer.com/2009/04/19/torture-memos-set-to-music/#comments Sun, 19 Apr 2009 21:47:40 +0000 Rhonda Winter http://ecolocalizer.com/2009/04/19/torture-memos-set-to-music/ This post contains additional media. Click here to view the full post.

Jonathan Mann, the brilliant creator of Rock Cookie Bottom, composes a song every single day. Today’s gem simply relates some of the horrific twisted language in the Bush administration’s morally reprehensible and illegal torture memos. It is an incredibly powerful song, but makes me a little queasy every time I hear it. One of the most empowering local actions any of us can undertake is to speak out loudly against injustice wherever we see it.

Perhaps we can look forward to “Torture Memos”, the musical?

]]> http://ecolocalizer.com/2009/04/19/torture-memos-set-to-music/feed/ Man Faces Charges For Beating, Dragging Horse Behind Truck http://planetsave.com/blog/2009/03/15/man-faces-charges-for-beating-dragging-horse-behind-truck/ http://planetsave.com/blog/2009/03/15/man-faces-charges-for-beating-dragging-horse-behind-truck/#comments Sun, 15 Mar 2009 00:30:05 +0000 Alex Felsinger http://planetsave.com/blog/2009/03/15/man-faces-charges-for-beating-dragging-horse-behind-truck/

An Arizona man who was caught by police in August 2008 after tying his horse to the back of his truck will face charges for animal cruelty in federal court this Tuesday.

Gorden Allen Bates tied a horse to the back of his truck and then proceeded to stop the vehicle and beat the animal with a PVC pipe while his 13-year-old daughter kicked it in the face. Luckily, a state trooper happened onto the scene.

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