Letters to the Editor

• Chris Floyd

  http://chris-floyd.com/content/view/1485/135/

  Too Much of Nothing: Crime Without Punishment, War Without End
  Sunday, 13 April 2008

  The President of the United States has openly, proudly admitted that he approved the use of interrogation methods that are by every measure -- including the measure of United States law -- criminal acts of torture. It is one of the most brazen and scandalous confessions of wrongdoing ever uttered by an American leader -- and it has had no impact whatsoever. No scandal, no outcry, no protest, no prosecution.

  This pattern has recurred over and over throughout the Bush Administration. Bush and his minions commit crimes and atrocities in secret; they move heaven and earth to conceal their filthy deeds; they squirm and squeal like panicked rats when their some small portion of their evil comes to light; they belch forth a relentless series of self-contradictory lies to cover up, obfuscate or explain away the crimes; and when at last their malefactions can no longer be denied, they trot out the president himself to say: "Yeah, we did it; so what?" And then....nothing happens.

  And now nothing is happening again.

  [...]

  - - Chris Floyd

  -- sysprog
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  Permalink Monday, April 14, 2008 05:37 AM