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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
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Here's a free prediction for you: in the end, Obama and the Democrats will do NOTHING about the torture and spying issue. They'll mumble, make some bland and vaguely positive statements, and change the subject. The media will happily play along, if they even bother to cover the topic in the first place. And the whole issue will die a quiet death.
Acts of torture and uncontrolled spying will not be punished; they'll just be forgotten. And we'll all be shocked, shocked, when it turns out in the future that both torture and warrantless wiretapping have been abused on a massive scale by this and future administrations.
Americans deserve to be tortured and spied on. We failed to protect our liberties, and now the wolves are unchecked. The best we can hope for is that eventually the government (or a private corporation working for the government) will commit an abuse so egregious that we're finally forced to wake up and reclaim our rights...and our humanity.
But I wouldn't count on it.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
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