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Solly Mack

(90,740 posts)
15. I think FDR should have been held accountable for that.
Wed Feb 6, 2013, 12:38 PM
Feb 2013

I've said the same before on DU.

Matters not to me who decided it was Constitutional, thereby legal. Read Martin Luther King's Letter from Birmingham Jail. Declaring something legal is one way to legitimize a host of horrors and abuses.


I think Bush (and all the rest) should be held accountable for war crimes. This isn't going to happen because America likes to pretend it is something it isn't. A country that cares about human rights. Oh, we give lip service to it, and we always promise to do better (As if before Bush we didn't know torture was wrong), and we most certainly chastise other countries over their human rights abuses - but let something bad happen to us and we're right back to committing abuses and declaring those abuses legal.


I don't support the "war on terror". Prior to Bush, acts of terror were handled as criminal acts. Many, many Americans, have allowed themselves to be swept up in the Bush/Cheney idea of a global battlefield, where enemies lurk in every corner, so we must bomb those corners into oblivion to feel safe. With each passing year the battlefield has grown, the enemies have multiplied - do we feel safe yet?

I've witnessed a change over the last 12 years and it has been an ugly change. More and more people are willing to accept almost anything as long as someone tells them it is legal (Thanks to the superb conditioning of the last 12 years). People have always been susceptible to the declarations of authority but I swear there was a time when more people fought against it: they questioned it - loudly. A small minority to be sure - but that minority has gotten even smaller. Sad.


I'm a registered Democrat and likely to remain so. But I was born a human. I can't just switch that on and off.




It's why FDR was a one term president. Buzz Clik Feb 2013 #1
So, election equals morality? n/t malthaussen Feb 2013 #2
You quoted me, right? I said that, right? Buzz Clik Feb 2013 #6
Dunno, I might just have misunderstood you, eh? malthaussen Feb 2013 #9
As in every election, it was a statement that ... Buzz Clik Feb 2013 #11
Most didn't even know of the camps Floyd_Gondolli Feb 2013 #20
This message was self-deleted by its author Floyd_Gondolli Feb 2013 #19
I guess we are all hypocrites for failing to condemn something that, in my case, el_bryanto Feb 2013 #3
Remember when Obama said he would close interment camps, I mean gitmo. Arctic Dave Feb 2013 #4
But Gitmo went up for a vote and got defeated, Internment was an Executive Order. JaneyVee Feb 2013 #10
Completely missed the point didn't ya buttercup. Arctic Dave Feb 2013 #14
Buttercup? I thought Gitmo WAS your point. You should have elaborated. I'll get back in the kitchen JaneyVee Feb 2013 #16
Your right! Riftaxe Feb 2013 #18
Yes and Congress followed that with 400+ votes for banning transfers from Gitmo SpartanDem Feb 2013 #22
Gee i wonder why.... Riftaxe Feb 2013 #24
It wasn't really publicized at the time. sadalien Feb 2013 #5
And he's still my favorite President. EastKYLiberal Feb 2013 #7
Unless their named Bush? zipplewrath Feb 2013 #17
It was wartime, and he played on prejudices obamanut2012 Feb 2013 #8
I wonder how many Democrats suddenly said it was ok... joeybee12 Feb 2013 #12
There was some protest at the time, malthaussen Feb 2013 #13
I think FDR should have been held accountable for that. Solly Mack Feb 2013 #15
People, Liberals, spoke out about it then too. Starry Messenger Feb 2013 #21
At least that was during a declared war between sovereign states. But even so, have you WinkyDink Feb 2013 #23
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