Following up on the posts by emptypockets and myself on the health care workers threatened with death in Libya:
- More on the Tripoli Six from Effect Measure, with a brief survey of the science blog reaction. Here's a link to a documentary about the situation, with a movie trailer. And here's the wikipedia link.
From Effect Measure:
This is not just a human rights story, although if it were "just" that it would have a major claim on our interests and our hearts. But it is also a science story: how scientific evidence, presented by one of the world's leading HIV scientists, was rejected out of hand, the only exculpating evidence possible in favor of these five nurses and a doctor. The goal, now, is to push -- and push hard -- for an independent scientific panel to review the genetic evidence that the discoverer of HIV, Luc Montagnier, indicates shows these aid workers were not responsible for infecting Libyan children with the virus.
How do we "push, and push hard"?
Our ScienceBlogger sibling, Mike Dunford at The Questionable Authority has taken a leadership position for the science blogger community. He has some important concrete suggestions and tools.
Flollow the links for concrete ideas. Speaking of torture, from the wikipedia link:
Based on confessions (allegedly obtained by torture), the court convicted the six of causing an HIV epidemic among hundreds of children in a Benghazi hospital and sentenced them all to death by firing squad. However, as a result of an appeal by the Benghazi Six, their death sentences were quashed by Libya's Supreme Court and a re-trial ordered.
What's confession by torture worth? Not much.
Joe Lieberman's blog (not gonna link to it) calls us "vituperative, foul-mouthed bloggers" -- or, rather, says Broder is "eloquent" when he calls us that. Lieberman also, in an accompanying blog post, calls immigrants "a festering national problem."
His blogroll has 6 links -- one to himself (heh), two to local blogs in Texas (one in Austin, one in San Antonio), one that I think is in California, one that says it's run by the DLC, and (my favorite) one that started a week and a half ago and seems to exist only to bash Lamont. Smells like plastic.
Not much comment here, just hadn't looked at his site since they set it up again and was curious how he was doing. Pretty much par for the course...
Posted by: emptypockets | September 23, 2006 at 13:41
Broder's hero John McCave is going to take it from all sides on this.
Posted by: DemFromCT | September 23, 2006 at 13:51
'The One Program' has an actor component and works closely with Peace Corps, KOS, Wilson and Plame. They cashed in and made a 'Doctors Without Borders' movie about Darfur before requiring a bunch of cash for Darfur(not that everybody had to do the Macarana).
Darfur is taking all the cash and that won't change or we all do the Macarana again. So, maybe there is a better way of doing this?
Posted by: CYA | September 23, 2006 at 14:35
``What's confession by torture worth? Not much.''
Agreed. Now if only the Bush admin and the craven D's would learn something from this affair. As noted before, there is not much they can do for the 6 (it's really up to the EU, I suspect, at this point), but the D's, at least, ought to be able to use this example as evidence to counter the pro-torture arguments coming from the right. [I don't suppose that Cheney administration will think that it has anything to do with them. Their ``moral clarity'' disappeared into the terror war quicksand a long time ago.]
Posted by: Paul Lyon | September 23, 2006 at 22:03
Bush met with the Bulgarian Presient in 2004 and stated he would "continue" to push for the release of the Tripoli 6. Of course May of this year the U.S. lifted sanctions against Libya. The wikipedia link mentioned that Sentor Lugar has worked for their release in the past, so he may be one to contact come Monday about what he is currently doing to effect the situation. I think the U.S. still has a lot of power even if we have lost the moral highground on torture and kangaroo courts, nonetheless, I think we can all still work to pressure the U.S. administration and legislative body to put pressure on Libya. It sounds like what Libya wants is money in the form of "aid", so maybe that is an angle that can be worked on from a legislative end.
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