“It is the height of irony that Ms. Arroyo is now complaining over ‘violations’ of her civil and political rights, when she enjoys the most special treatment of detained persons under the Aquino administration.”
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Torture, an anathema to democracy
By BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat.com “Just as ecologists define ecosystems by the presence of certain ‘indicator species’ of plants and birds, torture is an indicator species of a regime that it is engaged in a deeply anti-democratic project, even if that regime happens to have come to power through elections.” – Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine…