Kavaliro Kaprica

10:17 pm - Bad precedent.

I'm very concerned with the utter lack of governance this country seems to be suffering from. From the looks of things, Congress is a pirhanna bowl starved to the point where they are eating each other, and anything that gets too close.

How is it, that they could even think of legitimizing torture, in any form? How could we go so long with untried human beings sitting in Guantanimo? Oh sure, it sounds like it's a necessary evil. But the facts are, by denying the prisoners the rights you would give an american, you deny the founding principle upon which this country was forged; "We hold these truths to be self-evident, 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." Essentially, that says that everyone on this planet are equals, and should be treated as such.

Our government is so drunk off the blood of the innocent that it's absurd to them to actually look into the future and see what kind of damage they are creating. Any "terrorist" deserves to be dehumanized, brutalized, and held without reason, right? Well, my friends, look into the future and say the same thing when the "terrorist" is simply your sister or brother, or your own child, who said something or recorded something the government didn't want said or recorded. Look into the future where people who post on the internet evidence of police or government wrongdoing get quietly kidnapped in the middle of the night and hauled off to a "detainment center," where they get treated like animals, chained to the floor, raped, and undergo grueling phychological treatment such as pumping damaging levels of sound into the cell?

When it's your son or daughter hauled off because of the legislation being passed right now, just remember who you voted into office. I feel ashamed that I'm not already in a picket line somewhere protesting.

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