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• Thursday, November 13, 2008 08:21 AM

  MANY PEOPLE PROBABLY DO NOT CARE ABOUT THIS ISSUE BUT....

  I think, hopefully wrongly, that most people really don't care that much about this issue. But, it makes me sick. Americans need to learn that what is done in our name is done by US. We are responsible when innocent people are given no legal rights and brutally treated just because someone wants to show that something is being done, no matter how wrong, no matter how unlawful, no matter how ineffective.

  Some people say our legal system may not be perfect but it's the best there is. Our legal system SUCKS !! I personally have seen things happen up close and personal that have educated me more than I ever wanted to know about how many things are wrong with America's legal system.

  Lawyers who only care about a quick buck, not in defending the innocent, judges who care more about public opinion that what is right or wrong, prosecutors like vicious bulldogs who most definitely care more about winning than whether someone is innocent and does not deserve to be prosecuted.

  This case in Guatanamo is a case in point. I hope more people in the U.S. will care that George Bush is not just an ineffective, not-too-bright guy who got in over his head. What people got away with in his administration would be regarded as tyranny and worse if he was the head of any other country. If America is going to ever have a decent reputation again, we have to care about this kind of issue. Too many people who were absolutely innocent were seriously harmed. We are responsible if we do nothing to bring those responsible to justice, the president included !!

  —suetiggers Read suetiggers's other letters
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