Human Rights Discussion

  Liberian Warlord Yormi Johnson is a Senate candidate in upcoming Liberian elections. How is it possible that Saddam Hussein and Slobodan Milosevic are being held under trial and Yormi Johnson and Charles Taylor are free? The WAR ON TERROR is appearing more as the war against the United States and United Kingdom. The G-8 and weapons suppliers have to take their end of Universal Justce more seriously to help gain support and respect for their interests. Here is part of the AOL-CNN reporting: GANTA, Liberia (Reuters) -- A rebel leader who drank beer while his men hacked up the president and an infamous warlord called "Gen. Peanut Butter" are hoping to bury their pasts and be elected senators in Liberia's first post-war polls. Tuesday's presidential and parliamentary elections were intended to draw a line under a 14-year civil war which ended two years ago after killing a quarter of a million people and uprooting almost a third of the population. Some of the war's m...

A study by USC researchers Adrian Raine and Yaling Lang has provided structural support for the diagnostics of persons considered pathological liars. Earlier work emphasized the prefrontal cortex in ordinary liars.  Liars had a 25.7 percent increase in prefrontal white matter compared to the antisocial controls and a 22 percent increase compared to the normal controls. Liars had a 14.2 percent decrease in prefrontal gray matter compared to normal controls (Sutliff 2005). In addition to any structural component the social dimensions or triggers that differentiate a purely nativistic and deterministic antecedent need to be considered. Saddam Hussein has often been accused of manifesting himself as a pathological liar to justify his behavior.  “It’s almost mind reading. You have to be able to understand the mindset of the other person. You also have to suppress your emotions or regulate them because you don’t want to appear nervous. There’s quite a lot to do there. You’ve got to ...