by A. Nonnie Muss (not verified) - 01/09/2008 - 03:50
This is very very sad news. This culture -- in which governments feel that they can get away with this sort of thing, because they will -- is part of the legacy of George Bush and his government of freakishly bitter and angry people. His administration, and the media's complacency in reporting on it, have inspired a very crude legal culture, in which bullying and crudeness and torture and faith and sycophancy are heartily and ham-fistedly endorsed over anything remotely intellectual or remotely grown-up. They claim to support the rule of law but they have refused to allow any international courts to have jurisdiction over the U.S. since the time of Reagan's adventures in Nicaragua and El Salvador.
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Magomed Yevloyev
This is very very sad news. This culture -- in which governments feel that they can get away with this sort of thing, because they will -- is part of the legacy of George Bush and his government of freakishly bitter and angry people. His administration, and the media's complacency in reporting on it, have inspired a very crude legal culture, in which bullying and crudeness and torture and faith and sycophancy are heartily and ham-fistedly endorsed over anything remotely intellectual or remotely grown-up. They claim to support the rule of law but they have refused to allow any international courts to have jurisdiction over the U.S. since the time of Reagan's adventures in Nicaragua and El Salvador.
Magomed Yevloyev
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