On Dec 4, 2008, at 3:37 PM, Kevin Callahan wrote: > > http://www.commondreams.org/view/2008/12/04-8 > > <snippet> > A few months ago, Holder was even more explicit. "Our government > authorized the use of torture, approved of secret electronic > surveillance against American citizens, secretly detained American > citizens without due process of law, denied the writ of habeas corpus > to hundreds of accused enemy combatants and authorized the use of > procedures that violate both international law and the United States > Constitution," he said. "We owe the American people a reckoning." > > The day of reckoning is fast upon us. > > If Obama and Holder want to adhere to our Constitution and uphold our > highest values, they must pursue those in the Bush Administration who > violated that Constitution, broke our laws, and tarnished our values. > > Read the words of Lt. Gen. Antonio M. Taguba, who investigated the Abu > Ghraib scandal for the Pentagon. "There is no longer any doubt as to > whether the current administration has committed war crimes," he > concluded. "The only question that remains to be answered is whether > those who ordered the use of torture will be held to account." > > </snippet>
Interesting but we have to be careful here. We need to be measured in any pursuit along this course. Destroying the nation in pursuit of this would be foolish. Sometimes the best is to let certain dogs lie. That said I do think some sort of accountability needs to be enforced, I am just not sure what. --Larry _______________________________________________ OSX-Nutters mailing list | [email protected] http://lists.tit-wank.com/mailman/listinfo/osx-nutters List hosted at http://cat5.org/
