Letters to the Editor
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Sins
There are sins of which we are all convicted because we allow them. We may not be the immediate perpetrators but we allow those who are to go unpunished. Thus we are all under the shadow of Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib. We are complicit in every rendition. We are to blame because the people who did it are still doing it and because the people who ordered it are not in front of a judge.
Until John Yoo, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and George Bush stand stripped of the epaulets of office and have to answer for what was done, the rest of us, silent co-conspirators, are on the hook for what was done in our name.
What is worse, unless these bastards are tried, there is a possibility that future office holders may do the same. One of the most horrible lines in Orwell's "1984" was "If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face forever."