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Missing The Point
This stuff has already been done. It's law. People sat on their hands and watched it go through. Things get eroded away. Apathy rules. John Yoo is just Mr. Anyman -- he's not the problem. He's just a suit.
"The Banality of Evil is a phrase coined in 1963 by Hannah Arendt in her work Eichmann in Jerusalem. It describes the thesis that the great evils in history generally, and the Holocaust in particular, were not executed by fanatics or sociopaths but rather by ordinary people who accepted the premises of their state and therefore participated with the view that their actions were normal."
Simply put, "By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth."