America's just letting it all hang out now, isn't it?

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

It starts with a little arbitrary imprisonment without charges, indefinitely. Bringing us to, oh, back before the Magna Carta and King John in the 1200's when habeas corpus was established as a fundamental tenet of Western law.

Torture's okay again too. Heck, as long as ONE American life even might be saved, I guess it's okay kidnap, rape, beat, chew holes out of with dogs. We do it there so they won't be doing it in Shaker Heights or Grosse Point or Rancho Palos Verdes.

Assassination's all good. Don't like the leader of some pissant country that they chose to elect? Looks at you the wrong way? We have ways of "taking care" of that, heh. We'll scold the dude who talked about that with one side of the mouth, and with the other we'll have a bunch of talk show wisdom representing "both sides" of the "is torture and assassination okay" debate. Because we want to be fair and balanced after all.

It's fun sliding down the slippery slope. Gets faster and faster the further down you go. Wheee! Ultimately, it's liberating. There's really no limits! Throwing babies onto spikes in front of their moms? Well, as long as ONE American life MIGHT.. oh you know the rest. How low can you go? :shrug:

[CrispyQ]

1. A wise DUer said

We've hit the bottom & now we're digging.


on edit: My apologies that I don't recall who said this.

[Beam Me Up]

2. Definitely a keeper. Thanks for posting it

and thanks to whoever said it.

We've gone through the looking glass, down the rabbit hole, hit bottom and now we're digging.

[MsConduct]

3. Morals and conscience don't exist anymore. Great post! n/t

[cliss]

4. You got that right.

It's weird, isn't it? Watching your own country unravel. The mask is coming off. The thin veneer of respectability goes out the window.

They're showing us their TRUE nature. It's like they're not worried about their image any more, or even keeping up the pretenses. They're showing us what they REALLY care about: OIL.

You're right: we now condone torture. It's been proven we assassinate people all over the world. We have our dirty little fingers in just about every country on this planet.

Our own government is corrupt to its filthy core. And now a "Religious" preacher comes right out and says we need to assassinate people.

It's hard to believe. Never in my entire life, did I expect to see this kind of thing. From a so-called "democratic" country.

[mopaul]

5. brace yourself mr. bush

[wli]

6. the wheels have come off; we're a fascist dictatorship now n/t