Insanity
Today - which would have been my mother's 92 birthday, though she died at 68 - someone in the Defense (Offense?) Department said of the three men who commited suicide in the prison camp at Guantanamo where they had been held for nearly four years without being charged or given a hearing, that he considered their suicides an act of asymetrical warfare against the United States and its allies.
We have now gone far beyond George Orwell and Doublespeak.
I am tempted to believe that the tanking of the money markets the past month - a month in which, historically, the markets rise - is because of the loss of confidence that those who are at the highest levels of our government have lost touch with reality.
He said this shows that they have no regard for life, ours or theirs.
As if it is nothing that we have held these people under the most inhumane, inhuman, degrading, destabilizing conditions, with no hope of it ever ending.
If ever there was proof that the purposes of those whom we call terrorists had succeeded in terrorizing us to the point at which we lost all touch with those things we historically have held sacred, by which we defined our role in the world, this was it.
For shame.
We have now gone far beyond George Orwell and Doublespeak.
I am tempted to believe that the tanking of the money markets the past month - a month in which, historically, the markets rise - is because of the loss of confidence that those who are at the highest levels of our government have lost touch with reality.
He said this shows that they have no regard for life, ours or theirs.
As if it is nothing that we have held these people under the most inhumane, inhuman, degrading, destabilizing conditions, with no hope of it ever ending.
If ever there was proof that the purposes of those whom we call terrorists had succeeded in terrorizing us to the point at which we lost all touch with those things we historically have held sacred, by which we defined our role in the world, this was it.
For shame.
posted by Blayney at 4:46 PM
1 Comments:
You said: "As if it is nothing that we have held these people under the most inhumane, inhuman, degrading, destabilizing conditions, with no hope of it ever ending."
What are these conditions exactly?? While I admit that it appears that the Defense Department boob you quote is a stupendous, first-rate moron, I haven't heard of anything that makes me think the conditions these people are under fit that description. Do you really think the conditions are the "most" inhumane? The "most" inhuman? The "most" degrading? The "most" destabilizing? When you say "most", you must be comparing it to something, or everything. What are you comparing it to? I, a sheltered little bit of a thing in a nice American suburb, can think of far, far worse conditions.
I hesitated to post this comment and almost e-mailed it to you instead because of what happened the last time I posted something on your blog that was a little to the right of utter left... I'm sure you remember what happened. But then I thought, what the heck! Post away!
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