We need to do the right thing (Eric Baerren | Morning Sun)

[struggle4progress]

... When it comes time to actually facing things, we collectively have developed a yellow streak a mile wide down our back, which by the way covers up plenty of meat but not a lot of spine. I speak specifically of two issues, Guantanamo Bay and torture ...

We refuse to take people neither accused nor convicted of any crime because we’re afraid of what they might do to us ...

There is nothing manly about torture. It’s the purposeful inflicting of physical and mental pain on people who are otherwise helpless. That’s something cowards do ...

Torture violates ideas of compassion, decency, and fairness, which I used to think were three values this nation considered its own. This nation, by the way, also talks about how it values an approach to criminal law that provides ample opportunity for the accused to defend himself against accusations made and accusations made in a timely fashion. We claim it a strength that if the government can’t produce evidence that suggests you need to be taken off the streets in an appropriate amount of time that you should be released ...

http://www.themorningsun.com/articles/2009/05/29/opinion/doc4a1fada241f92506305170.txt

[ronatchig]

1. It appears this writer

is learning that there is two sets of law in the good old USA.

One which applies to the vast majority of people, the non-rich and unconnected, and is applied

in the courts of Amerika.

The other is applied to the powerful and wealthy in back rooms and offices of the elites.

The claptrap that Amerika is a nation built on laws and not men is exposed as so much bullcrap.

As a side note I would add that the much vaunted bill of rights praised so widely in the halls of
power boil down to the right to shut up and do what your told.
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