(Denny Crane: "Every one should carry a gun strapped to their waist. We need more - not less guns.")
A truer editorial has not been written.
I personally turn off when I hear the term racism thrown out. I solidified that position when I saw a woman make the blaim that the movie King Kong was racist against blacks.
So, if people think you're a fascist and that you're an apologist for oppression and violation of human rights, that compromises everybody's ability to go after others who may more accurately called fascists and violaters of human rights?
On what basis do you make these assertions?
It seems to me that what you're really saying is that you aren't what they call you, and that makes you mistrust their intentions and their judgments.
"It undermined the war against torture to characterize what some Americans did to some Iraqis in the Abu Ghraib prison -- actions that were indeed sick, un-American and shameful to our military -- as "torture." Labeling abuses as "torture" filled me with pity for all the people around the world who had experienced real torture"
Maybe so, but it has apparently handcuffed the administration from critisizing the horrific treatment and subsequent desacration of our two captured soldiers...I would have appreciated some moral outrage expressed at this barbarism, but instead their silence broke my heart.
bttt