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So you assume that denial, the desire for increased secrecy, and a comfort in such matters not being disclosed has no relation at all to the carrying out of such deeds?
Do you really think the previous administration wanted us all to know about what they were responsible for with regards to the memos? Do you think when people take secret action and use extraordinary rendition they do so with the intention of having fair and open trials? This is not merely an exercise in absolute a-b causation. This is about the tenor and tone of the fear that was multiplied by executive power and their desire to keep it so.
Do you really think justice can be served or reform to be possible while we keep things as secret as possible? Do you think it good that a good portion of voters will live in denial forever about what we as a nation did because all we have as evidence of these wrong doings are memos that are mystified before their eyes? Confounded to the point where many will say they hardly happened at all and that we have a right wing great Wurlitzer that fires cannonballs of cacophony from coast to coast clamoring to the worse devils of ignorance and fear. Counting on illiteracy and gambling on stupidity and blindness to assure their audiences and rewrite history?
Without the hope for ignorance and the desire for secrecy none of these things could have occurred as they did and I don't care how many straw men you line up for execution, her statements were wrong. As wrong as I have come to expect from this absurd little daughter of privilege, consummate insider, and mockingbird maven of malarkey and murky mindlessness.
The words of Victor Hugo, on speaking of the execution of John Brown, ring as true in this matter as they did in that terrible killing. "You preserve your shame but you kill your glory." Hugo spoke of the glory of democracy and liberty and how we, in defending slavery against those who would take up arms against was to betray the very ideals of the nation. I speak of the glory of our nation our ability to look into the lens of history and face it boldly and declare aloud that we can do better than this. But to do this you cannot merely say aloud Fiat Justitia and expect all to be right. There are the difficult middle steps between stating the problem and claiming right to the healing of such grievous wounds.
And if this crime, these vial tortures pass without punishment and without blame then what next? If it takes video footage to assure us of what happened and to insure us that those that carried out these deeds and those that guided them with memo and policy directive and even executive decree are punished and possibly protect and forewarn us so this thing cannot happen again than, despite the hearts it may aflame abroad, is it not worth it?
But if we stand and do nothing and torture is allowed to have been passed over what is the defense against it happening again? Shall we count on the Cokie Roberts to defend our rights and the constitution? Will she step to the fore for freedom and due process and protection from the unreasonable, and the cruel and unusual?
And I do not think hate requires much fuel for it to burn. It has been with us for all of human history. To somehow expect that the destruction of evidence be fortunate it preventing radical Islam from despising us more is the height of idiocy. There is hate enough to fill every bombed out crater in Baghdad and certainly each of these deep wounds is a reservoir of fuel for their anger and frustration and rage as volatile as the oil we pump from there and as toxic as the uranium dust we have scattered there. No, with what we have done in these nations it is unlikely our actions will be forgotten in ten generations or more if we continue down the path we have set ourselves on.
If we offer no justice for ourselves, our victims and to the world where then will they seek justice? Surely those luckless enough to be tortured but lucky enough to be released will want some redress and if not in court then where? Whether to save or damn those that suffered unjustly in those torture factories should it not be ourselves that is also saved? Should we not be saved or avenged for the damage done to our own constitution?
I am sorry you don't understand this but protection from difficult, problematic, and damning information is not a blessing of liberty, it is the cold comfort of fascism.
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