The funny thing about laws is that you end up looking not only hypocritical but also stupid when youd have them apply to others and not yourself. If any of this bunch were...say, holed up in my house and the international police came knocking, determined to smoke them out of their hole, Id turn them over in a heartbeat. One might think that these chickenhawks are bastards but the fact that their our bastards makes them special or even cute and cuddly. Theyre covered in :poop: because of what theyve taken from us. And what that be? Our innocence. Our military action had always been accompanied with the excuse, parroted by most Americans, that we were altruistically delivering so-called human rights to others. You, see we do things out of the goodness of our superior, giving hearts. IBecause were good people that which we do has to be good and we can be absolutely certain were good people because we say what were doing is good. It becomes hard to decry the inhumanity of those people in some middle eastern countries, particicularlr their vile dictators as we are shipping suspects to them for torture so we can say it wasnt us or it wasnt done within our boundaries. Thats flimsy reasoning by any standards, even our own legal ones which include the concept of aiding and abetting. Aiding and abetting means that if you knew about the crime and you helped in any way then you are guilty too. But by torturing the excuses we tell ourselves no longer credible internationally or domestcally. This goes straight to the heart of not only how others perceive us but how we perceive ourselves. One lie can only be covered up with another which leads to another and another and another...
Posted on: Wed, 24 Dec 2014 17:04:09 +0000
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