Secrets and lies
In the UK, the attorney-general has gagged the press to prevent any more truth about the relationship between Bush and Blair being revealed. It took our investigators a couple of days to find out whodunnit. The Yanks need a lot longer in their case, because they are not looking to close down leaks. Mostly because in their case, it's the government doing all the leaking, so they don't like to poke around into it too much. But since when did we use the Official Secrets Act to stop newspapers from revealing what we think of the Yanks. How is it protecting us, the people, to not allow us to know what Bush really thinks of Chimpy? How is it protecting us to use the OSA to keep us in the dark, to maintain a lie that we have been told? How would it hurt us if the Yanks were really offended and refused to associate with us (arguably that would be a blessing!).These are dark days. We are complicit in torture and murder. We are liars, cheats and thieves. We are tearing ourselves apart, destroying the values that we claim to believe in. Habeas corpus, accountability, freedom of the press: all being struck down by men whose only concern is the furtherance of power, impelled by a war on monsters that is piece by piece making monsters of us.
posted by Dr Zen @ 3:21 pm
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