| September 16th, 2006 |
| Torture & Redefining Justice | 01:13 pm |
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So the President doesn't want military and CIA operatives to be open to prosecution for war crimes & human rights violations... Is this not an even more clear warning sign as to the authoritarian direction Bush & Co. have been trying to lead this country since 9/11? We've had the Patriot Act, warrantless domestic eavesdropping, randomly data mining phone call information of innocent Americans, tracking financial records at home and abroad on little if any suspicions, accusations of treason when the press exposes non-classified information about government programs whose constitutionality are highly questionable, or at least debatable, secret prisons and detention centers in other countries, and dissent is demonized as traitorous, anti-war folks are called appeasers, concerns of torture is akin to terrorist sympathy, and so forth. And now on top of everything else the Administration wants to change Article III of the Geneva Conventions.
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