#hi

The Justices are currently considering a case, argued last month, which seeks to extend the writ of habeas corpus to al Qaeda and Taliban detainees at Guantanamo. ↗

— John Yoo

#argued #case #considering #corpus #currently

This is not to condone torture, which is still prohibited by the Torture Convention and federal criminal law. ↗

— John Yoo

#convention #criminal #criminal law #federal #law

While Taliban fighters had an initial claim to protection under the conventions, they lost POW status by failing to obey the standards of conduct for legal combatants: wearing uniforms, a responsible command structure, and obeying the laws of war. ↗

— John Yoo

#combatants #command #conduct #conventions #failing

I had done my first picture and I didn't have anything to do for awhile. I was asked to come back to New York and do Bus Stop in the role of the cowboy opposite Kim Stanley. ↗

— Dick York

#asked #awhile #back #bus #come

In God's eyes all children are beautiful but here on earth we have higher standards. ↗

— Stephen Colbert

#humor #beauty

I kept having chills. This was in the middle of the summer and I was wearing a sheepskin jacket and I was chilling. I was shaking all over. ↗

— Dick York

#chills #having #i #jacket #kept

I think we're entering a very dangerous time. The West has set itself up, decided it's in charge, not for good intentions, not for the benefit of mankind. ↗

— Thom Yorke

#charge #dangerous #decided #entering #good

I was seeing everything through pain. I would roll out of bed and do my exercises. I had to do that to work out the remainder of the pain pills. I would drink coffee and go to the set and plunge myself so far into my work. ↗

— Dick York

#coffee #drink #drink coffee #everything #exercises

The people in charge, globally, are maniacs. They are maniacs, and unless we do something about it these people are going to deprive us of a future. ↗

— Thom Yorke

#charge #deprive #future #globally #going

I'd managed to bite a very large hole in the side of my tongue before they could pry my teeth apart. By all evidence, and there's no denying it, that thing I had on the set was a fit. ↗

— Dick York

#before #bite #could #denying #evidence