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October 25, 2005
Why do they hate America?
The White House is pressing Senator McCain to insert an exemption into the defense spending bill which would allow the CIA to torture people. The exemption is needed to give Bush maximum flexibility in waging his war on terrorism, according to VP Cheney and CIA director Porter Goss.
It's interesting to me how this bunch who so clearly favored so-called federalists consistently push for such patently unAmerican policies that are much more inline with the kind of arrogant presumption among the British royalists that led the federalists to rebel.
That all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; that, to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.
I can hear the Bush loyalists now. "Oh, but that only applies to American citizens."
Really? Well... no, of course not. The fact of that matter is that many of those who later rebelled against the crown had tried to assert their natural rights without resorting to rebellion.
Perhaps the most damning line from the Declaration of Independence:
Hmmm... can you say Gitmo? The only reason the detainee camp was set up at Gitmo was to evade American judiciary powers. And now he wants formal permission to conduct torture there and anywhere else he deems necessary.
That's not what this great nation was founded on, as the evidence so clearly shows.
Why do they hate America?
Posted by Kevin at October 25, 2005 10:49 AM