The World Turned Upside Down

[bzarcher]

So right now, an Iraqi cleric is calling for a democratically elected government.

While the U.S. Government is not only holding people without charges, legal access, or a writ of habeas corpus, but sending them to lovely places like Syria, where torture is still a fun police tool, even if they just have the wrong passport, and just happen to be passing through.

I suspect in the long term, the concept of 'American Freedom' is going to be dead. In the short term the sense of Personal Freedom may just die first.

Comments

[kryptikm3.livejournal.com]

You know what the ironic thing is, too? Bush just recently claimed that "No President has ever done more for human rights than I have."

[bzarcher.livejournal.com]

Well, yes, but in the sense that we could say 'more atrocities for human rights', he's exactly right.