I am enraged. I am incensed. Furious. I will not calm down. I will not get over it. I will not chill. Nor will I SMFPH.
We have bigger fish to fry? Such as? What is bigger than the Constitution, or the Bill of Rights, or the Geneva Conventions, or basic human rights?
Nothing has changed? We have just officially, and by statute, joined the ranks of the lawless nations. We have undermined habeas corpus and we have, despite all the acrobatic reasoning, legalized torture.
I expected this action from those brown-shirted Republican thugs.
But my Senator, Debbie Stabenow, and 10 other Democrats, voted for this atrocity. Are these some REAL Americans--the ones with (D)s after their names?
Do we have no bottom line? Is there nothing we won't accept for political expediency? Sminthues wrote
The bill today was about shredding the Constitution and the very legal system of our nation. People have given their lives to defend that.
I will not become the moral equivalent of a "good German". There is an ethical line that no one should cross. Where do we draw that line?