The Chaff

Sunday, January 2nd, 2005

Constitutional Toilet Paper

New story from Reuters (via Yahoo):

The Pentagon (news - web sites) and the CIA (news - web sites) have asked the White House to decide on a more permanent approach for those it was unwilling to set free or turn over to U.S. or foreign courts, the Washington Post said in a report that cited intelligence, defense and diplomatic officials.

(Washington Post story here, but it requires registration.)

When I first heard about the over-500 in Guantanimo last year, I cried. That was the last step over the line of “no longer recognizeably America.” Then there was the attempt to slip provisions for allowing “extraordinary rendition” (where we can send anyone we want to any country we want, even if we know they will be tortured and/or killed when they arrive there) into the Intelligence Reform bill. And those provisions would have made extraordinary rendition legal retroactively. What are they up to, down there in Cuba?

I hate these people.

Until they came into power I could still believe that I lived in the country I learned about in school. Sure, I knew it wasn’t perfect, but due process, freedom of speech, freedom to address grievances against the government–these were the shining jewels that made Lady Liberty’s otherwise tarnished crown a beatiful thing.

And these people have ripped these jewels from their settings with crowbars and filled the mishapen, damaged places with blood and piss and shit.

How long can this continue? How long until the tired get tired of this? How long until the poor are no longer mollified with “poor baby”? How long until the billions of tears of those huddled masses swell into a flood and sweep these people away, washing the filth Lady Liberty’s crown?

How long until She slams the Golden Door shut in their faces, lifts her lamp, and shoves it up their lie-spewing assholes?

And I have to refer to them over and over again as “these people” to constantly remind myself that, regardless of their deeds, they are still human and deserving of the minimum rights I demand for any member of my species.

I only wish these people would remember that, too.

A great philosopher from the Middle East once said Blessed are they who hunger and thirst for Rightousness’s sake, for they shall be quenched. I wonder if our Dear Leader is familiar with him.

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