Anyone may contribute. The theory is, it will be self-correcting... after a while, when someone else of a different opinion logs on to change an article not written by them.
I have already done a correction, in the case of an article that identified a college affiliated with the Church of the Brethren (a peace church with missions all over the world that opposes the use of armed force as a foreign policy tool) as "controlled by Marxists". It was a ridiculous statement. For all I know, the original author has gone back to retract my correction, but I alerted the college about the problem.
I would not cite Wikipedia, ever, without following it up. I'm not sure that Rotten.com is much better as an authoritative source, since they admit that a lot of what they get is from anonymous sources [see also: big stink about Newsweek's use of anonymous sources], and especially since Rotten.com is cited as a source for the Wikipedia article.
I would really like to see an independent article that includes interviews with people who knew Padilla before he was declared an enemy combatant.
Everyone is entitled to his opinion, so here's mine: executing 14-year-olds is sick, and is not the hallmark of a civilized nation.
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The next time you cite Wikipedia, remember it's an experiment, not an authoritative source.
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- Amnesty International called U.S. prisons "Gulag of our times."
- Amnesty says, "OK, so it's not a gulag."
- A lot more via Glenn Reynolds.
- From the Wall Street Journal
- Not "US prisons", but "Guantanamo", was the subject.
- Sorry, they are combattants.
- Not all of them.
- There is no way to tell one from another.
- Ah, justice and mercy...
- Justice and mercy do NOT exist in warfare. Sorry, wrong game. (n/t)
- That's no answer.
- Ah, justice and mercy...
- There is no way to tell one from another.
- Not all of them.
- You're quite right there
- "The Holocaust of our times" has been done, just as you describe it.
- Gu-gu-gu. Lag-lag-lag. Is all I want to say to you.
- Language as a tool
- you can define leftist any way you want
- "Soft bigotry of low expectations" comes immediately to mind (n/t)
- This year's report:
- "The Holocaust of our times" has been done, just as you describe it.
- Sorry, they are combattants.
- Jose Padilla : U.S. Citizen Imprisoned Without Trial or Charges for 3 Years and 19 Days
- Advocating the systematic torture of random folks is offensive to all except - - -
- Pathetic