I'm sensing a really fundamental problem here, in the way President Obama is handling the Bush administration's admission of having tortured prisoners.
"Looking forward" is not justice.
Are we to just "look forward" every time a crime is committed? If not, why not? Is this some new kind of "American exceptionalism"?
Crimes were committed. War crimes. Crimes against humanity. Crimes for which others before had been hanged to death (by us! not even 50 years ago) because of their severity.
A clear admission has been issued: "We did it," it said. Torture was committed by American personnel under orders from Americans. In legal circles, this is called a Confession.
And now... we're looking forward?? Looking forward to what? A world in which the likes of Karl Rove and Harriet Miers can simply ignore Congressional subpoenas; a world in which crimes against humanity -if committed by the right people, apparently-- can be just overlooked?
Is this the world you want your children to inherit?
Write or call your congressperson, Senators, and the President, now please: Torture is illegal and unAmerican, and no one is above the law.
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Yea! You're back! OK. Now I need you to philosophize on something: If gay marriage is allowed, why not polygamy and incestuous marriages? I'm struggling with this one. I wish I could remember something a supreme court justice said about the moving social consciouness and how the courts rulings move with it. OH, and is marriage a "civil" right?? Please help.
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