Letters to the Editor
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Particularly Good Piece
Today's piece is an awfully good one, in that it shifts our gaze somewhat to congress, and its continued failure as a constitutional branch of government to address the issues of torture, loss of process, and other human/civil rights issues.
We are, and have been, at a divide between two courses. The course identified with torture leads towards the end of our republic and the creation of some new and monstrous national entity that will terrorize both the world and its own citizens. The course rejecting torture leads us in a better direction.
Here's a recent court statement regarding due process/civil liberties issue:
"This is the destiny of democracy, as not all means are acceptable to it, and not all practices employed by its enemies are open before it. Although a democracy must often fight with one hand tied behind its back, it nonetheless has the upper hand. Preserving the Rule of Law and recognition of an individual's liberty constitutes an important component in its understanding of security. At the end of the day they (add to) its strength."
Don't recognize it? The leftist, soft-on-terror, Osama-loving, Iran-appeasing court issuing this statement was the Supreme Court of Israel, 1999.
Congress would do well to listen, and consider what it is doing. Greenwald is absolutely correct, and in fact the statement is overdue. Failure to act will lead to congressional--and Democratic Party--co-ownership of all these evils.