Another recent post from my blog at Boomer-Blog.com.
WHAT HAVE WE BECOME?
America - the home of the free. The world champion for liberty, freedom, and human rights. The government of the people, by the people, and for the people. The world symbol for Democracy, freedom, and personal liberty.
Yet, we have been reduced to arguing the semantics and legality of TORTURE! We have people in the government and the media DEFENDING water-boarding! We have become the world's most powerful bully-dictatorship! My, how far we have fallen!
Can anyone hear the Founding Fathers turning over in their graves?
Bin Laden has accomplished his goals beyond his wildest dreams, but he has had a whole lot of help from us. I use the word 'US' because, although it has been Bush and his Administration who have perpetrated these foul deeds, the American people have not stopped him.
Bush himself has said many times that the terrorists "hate our freedom." Yet, this Administration has done more to reduce and attack that freedom than any outside enemy could ever have done.
Bush has also said that "Liberty is on the march in the world." If that is true, Liberty is on the march elsewhere because Bush has kicked her out of the United States.
Bush has talked the talk on human rights, yet he has engaged this country in TORTURE! To Hell with legal definitions and hair-splitting! What this country is doing to detainees and prisoners is contrary to all the concepts and philosophies upon which this country was founded!
The terrorists hate our freedom of religion, yet every action of the Bush Administration is designed to bow to the radical religious Right, and propagates the lie that our country was founded on Christian principals. In other words, he is moving towards making Christianity the State religion! Exactly where in Christianity does the defense of torture originate??
The terrorists hate our form of government, yet the Bush Administration is destroying the most basic precepts of that governmental philosophy.
The bottom line is that, under the Bush Administration, this country has made, and is making, a substantial move away from Democracy and towards a religious dictatorship - EXACTLY what the terrorists want.
Thus, Bush is the biggest terrorist of all.
Dave