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Wednesday, April 02, 2008
The torture little step
By VictorM:Commenting on the Yoo memo "asserting that federal laws prohibiting assault, maiming and other crimes did not apply to military interrogators who questioned al-Qaeda captives because the president's ultimate authority as commander in chief overrode such statutes," this TPM poster has this to say:
My parents were Hungarian holocaust survivors.The question most asked them about that era was, "how could it happen? What could have been done?
My mother's reply was that tyranny takes little steps. People get upset, and then accept it. Then another little step. A few more little steps and you have death camps.
Yoo's defense of torture is one more little step moving us away from civilization and closer to madness. Where is the outcry?
Indeed, little steps have been taken since Bush has been president and the Republicans controlled Congress. Today, we are further along the path of little steps than we should. We have been down this road before -- Joe McCarthy being one such example that comes to mind -- but is there a "Have you no sense of decency?" moment in our near future? I hope so.
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