Does it bother no one that we prosecuted and
jailed—at hard labor—Japanese for waterboarding? That we apparently courtmartialed an
American soldier in Vietnam for doing it?
And yet today we say when we did it last decade “it wasn’t torture,” or “it was
justified,” or “well, maybe it wasn’t exactly right, but we certainly aren’t
going to prosecute anyone for it.”
As conscience dims, a dark state fills the
void.
Something we should remember whenever our
desire for “safety” and “security” from possible terror attacks tempt us to
give up who and what we truly are and should be. Isn’t it better that hundreds, maybe
thousands, of people POSSIBLY be put in danger rather than all of us lose our
collective American soul?
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