While the United states Armed Forces (private mercenaries) are stationed at 737 bases, in 130 nations around the world, defending “all freedom-loving people everywhere in the world,” Anton G. Scalia, associate justice of the supreme court, of the corporate United states, says in an interview with the British Broadcasting Corporation that the Federal courts have no jurisdiction over what happens at U.s. military installations outside the U.s., nor is torture of internees abroad a banned by the Constitution for the united States: “We don’t pretend to be some Western Mullahs who decide what is right and wrong for the whole world.”

       [added 6/15/2024] Thanks to Bill Holmes for this entry.