Charlie wrote: > For a innocent citizen, a false accusation would not affect one > forever. But it could take a substantial portion of one's life up. > That, coupled with the explicit endorsement of torture methods such > as waterboarding (methods that the US itself pushed for banning and > prosecuted its users only half a century ago), makes me wonder what > the fuck has happened to the USA. GW Bush and the religious right.
> A half-decade ago, I wrote here along the lines that the actions of the States rarely fully lived up to its aspirations, but at least it did purport to stand for freedom, liberty and human rights. > > Now, just five years later, the USA has thrown even that out the > window. It's a desperately sad day. For those few of us who saw the disaster that is Bush coming, it's only slightly satisfying to see that the rest of the country is finally understanding how bad our leadership really is; kind of like the weak satisfaction one must feel after an enemy finally starts to pull out of a city that it has captured but has left a burned out hulk. It will take decades to undo the damage that this administration has inflicted on the U.S. and the world. Doug back to cleaning and moving maru _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
