Wednesday, May 28, 2008

What we've lost ...

George W Bush and his willing helpers in government, Congress, the judiciary, law enforcement and the US populace have not only failed to live up to the standards we, as a people, set for ourselves, believed we embodied and even convinced the world we stood for but went so much further to ensure the absolute destruction of those standards and principles so that the US now stands before the world and a corrupt, arrogant and criminal country.
... when Al-Ghizzawi heard American troops were coming, he tried to get himself turned over to them. As Al-Ghizzawi later told me, he thought he would be safe with the Americans “and have rights” and be treated “with respect.”
And that was only the beginning. It could be you, me, your family and mine next ...
The Last Roundup --Is the government compiling a secret list of citizens to detain under martial law? by Christopher Ketcham (via The Sideshow)
I still alternate between disbelief and numbness. Even after 7 years watching it happen.

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