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The BBC reports that ex-US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld may face abuse charges in Germany for personally authorizing the illegal torture of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba and Abu Ghraib in Iraq.

The Center for Constitutional Rights, a US based group, will file the motion to prosecute on Tuesday. Apparently the way that German law works, they allow the persuit of cases originating anywhere in the world, which makes Germany a perfect place to persue this case now that Dumsfeld no longer has diplomatic immunity.

Maybe things really will change now that the GOP no longer has a stranglehold on the American political system. Hopefully this will at least put the fear of prosecution in their minds, and make them think twice before making stupid decisions. We’ll see…

Read the rest of the article here:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6138480.stm

In an interesting turn of events, a dead Democratic woman, Marie Steichen, received a majority of the votes over her Republican rival in a South Dakota town in the election of November 7th. Yahoo! News reports that Ms. Steichen died of cancer in September, and that the voters in the town did indeed understand that she was dead, but still voted for her in order to make a point. Read the rest of the article here:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20061108/od_afp/usvoteoffbeat_061108233829