Thanks Rach.
Sep. 27th, 2006 12:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
litheraShe linked to this Slate article which has me swinging between wanting to cry and wanting to scream.
Why can we NOT get rid of the crazy motherfucking bastard?
TORTURE IS WRONG. There is no acceptable level of torture. There is no acceptable level of pain for this or that or this sort of harm is okay while that isn't. It isn't often that I make statements flat out like this. I will accept that there is almost always an arguement to be made or a position to be understood but not on this one.
What the fuck is wrong with our government that they CAN'T UNDERSTAND THAT?
There are some things that are just WRONG no matter what. Torture is one of them.
MOTHERFUCKER! AUGH.
To quote Sean - "We really seem to be operating under the principle that war crimes trials are for "bad guys". Since "bad guys" are our enemies, we must make sure our people are immune to war crimes trials - no matter what they do." The problem with that is THESE ARE TRIALS. You can't go into something like that assuming EVERYONE IS A BAD GUY. Because right now, I don't trust us to rationally make decisions about WHO THE HELL THE BAD GUYS ARE.
I remember feeling this way not too long after 9/11. I remember walking down a street with Lu in Bologna feeling this general sense of anger and fear and hoplessness and... I didn't know what to do with it then and I don't know what to do with it now. All I know is that I hate it and the government that is currently in power is not representing me if they're allowing this crap to go forward. I don't know if I could feel less represented.
Fuck.
And I link here to my friend Chris who is much better with words than I.
Why can we NOT get rid of the crazy motherfucking bastard?
TORTURE IS WRONG. There is no acceptable level of torture. There is no acceptable level of pain for this or that or this sort of harm is okay while that isn't. It isn't often that I make statements flat out like this. I will accept that there is almost always an arguement to be made or a position to be understood but not on this one.
What the fuck is wrong with our government that they CAN'T UNDERSTAND THAT?
There are some things that are just WRONG no matter what. Torture is one of them.
MOTHERFUCKER! AUGH.
To quote Sean - "We really seem to be operating under the principle that war crimes trials are for "bad guys". Since "bad guys" are our enemies, we must make sure our people are immune to war crimes trials - no matter what they do." The problem with that is THESE ARE TRIALS. You can't go into something like that assuming EVERYONE IS A BAD GUY. Because right now, I don't trust us to rationally make decisions about WHO THE HELL THE BAD GUYS ARE.
I remember feeling this way not too long after 9/11. I remember walking down a street with Lu in Bologna feeling this general sense of anger and fear and hoplessness and... I didn't know what to do with it then and I don't know what to do with it now. All I know is that I hate it and the government that is currently in power is not representing me if they're allowing this crap to go forward. I don't know if I could feel less represented.
Fuck.
And I link here to my friend Chris who is much better with words than I.
