Herbert continues to prove himself a good human being, covering the torture issue, this time channeling Mayer's article in the New Yorker:
Any government that commits, condones, promotes or fosters torture is a malignant force in the world. And those who refuse to raise their voices against something as clearly evil as torture are enablers, if not collaborators.
There is a widespread but mistaken notion in the U.S. that everybody seized by the government in its so-called war on terror is in fact somehow connected to terrorist activity. That is just wildly wrong. . . . Jettisoning the rule of law to permit such acts of evil as kidnapping and torture is not a defensible policy for a civilized nation. It's wrong. And nothing good can come from it.
Of course he is right.
Update [2005-2-11 0:0:7 by Armando]: We MUST keep raising our voices against torture. It is our moral duty.