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Torture If the Other Guy Does it
Liberals want to torture Sean Hannity. Interpreting amnesty advocates. The EU is too big. Plus more.
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The current administration’s policy on “torture” is a poorly
thought-out political gesture but the result of adopting it
is that they have placed our people at a tactical and strategic
disadvantage and have emboldened the enemy. Doen’t that violate
the president’s oath of office to support and defend the
Constitution?
— Bill Bagwell
BARELY REPRESENTED
Re: Doug Bandow’s
Klaus
Encounters:
Another great article from Doug Bandow — right on the money!
Sadly, however, I have some bad news for him. I have a number of British friends who see the E.U. from the completely opposite viewpoint. I have no doubt whatsoever that their viewpoint sweeps across, not only the U.K., but all of the European Union.
Try as I might, I cannot convince them of the very dangers Mr. Bandow enumerates! They won’t believe me when I tell them that the U.S. has been undergoing the exact same dominating interference from a centralized federal government, and that they should learn from and benefit from our sad experience.
I have actually given up trying, for fear of losing some good friends.
Their resistance takes two forms. The first is a set of philosophical blinders which they willingly wear, not just “even though,” but precisely because, they allow themselves to see only what they want to see.
The second is a philosophical blindfold. With this, it’s not even a matter of tunnel vision — it’s a complete blacking out of everything about the E.U. As long as they can keep putting one foot in front of the other, they keep on walking.
Both sets want desperately to believe that there is value in a super-government in Europe, with dreams of economic strength, international influence if not dominance, and social nirvana here on earth.
E.U. “micromanagement” as the price for that? Not only do they accept the very micromanagement by the Eurocrats that Mr. Bandow describes, they blandly insist that it doesn’t happen.
And none of them want a referendum.
— A. C. Santore
Might I contribute some facts and figures to Doug Bandow’s illuminating article?
There are potentially some 375,000,000 EU-voters, and 785 members of the EU parliament. This works out at one such member “representing” close on half a million EU-burghers.
This constitutes, in the opinion of one British
citizen, democracy diluted.
— John C. Constable
Hamburg, Germany
Big J| 5.12.09 @ 8:13AM
Tad Farrand:
When you quoted S. L. Toddard, you stripped yourself of any credibility you might have otherwise had. The particular verbal attack that you quoted was aimed directly at me, and was way off base.
Willing to go to great lengths to protect the citizens of this country (myself included) does not make one a "Neocon Armchair Warrior" as Toddard put it, nor does it indicate a "sick need to feel macho".
My hope for the left in this country is for the name-calling and ridiculous smears to stop. You cannot be taken seriously on any point as long as it is more important to slander someone than explain by stating facts.
Furthermore, I invite you to take a trip back in time with me and many other Americans that have not forgotten the brutal murder of innocent CIVILIANS on September 11, 2001.
I recall many people literally jumping out from 80 stories up, wishing to die from falling than to be burned alive.
I recall many members of the NYPD and FDNY eager to sacrifice their lives in order to save another.
I remember the absolute hatred I felt for the perpetrators of this horrendous crime against the innocent. Hatred is a strong word, and I reserve it for situations such as September 11th. That hatred has not dissipated over the last 7 1/2 years. Nor has their hatred for us dissipated.
American citizens who believe in conservative principals are not your enemy, contrary to the way you treat us. We ALL want to go to work, protect our families, volunteer, donate, etc.
It's a shame to have to remind an American citizen who the REAL enemy is.
Consider yourself reminded, whether or not you choose to remember.
Angel| 5.12.09 @ 10:29AM
Tad's a typical liberal bleater--always the first to whine when his country successfully prevents terrorist attacks, and always the first to scream in outrage when it doesn't. Can't please wimpy losers like him; stopped trying a long time ago.
lila| 5.12.09 @ 7:46PM
It seems that to think that waterboarding is torture, but aborting unborn babies by using a saline solution to burn their skin off, tear arms and legs off, suck their brains out, etc., is justified, is just breathtaking. Now that is real torture, oh, I forgot, they aren't human, so they can feel nothing?(chicken?alien?blobs?) so who cares about them, as long as we don't make the terrorists suffer. If abortion is not so bad, we could just abort the terrorists on the battlefield, it would be acceptable and that would solve the problem. I vote for that.
ruth| 5.12.09 @ 7:48PM
Me too, Lila.
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