Name-calling eh? I'll wager right now that I'm well to the right of you on taxes, spending, and economic regulation. I know that I'm more conservative on the issue of whether or not to trust the federal government (now headed by Obama) not abuse its power.
“.. I’ll wager right now that I’m well to the right of you on taxes, spending, and economic regulation. I know that I’m more conservative on the issue of whether or not to trust the federal government (now headed by Obama) not abuse its power.” ~ Captain Kirk
Oh, you’ve already proven that you’re an extremist (extreme right and extreme left are merely flip sides of the same extremist coin.)
America was founded to be a nation of laws not of men.
As Krauthammer said, “Our jurisprudence has the “reasonable man” standard. A jury is asked to consider what a reasonable person would do under certain urgent circumstances. On the morality of waterboarding and other “torture,” Pelosi and other senior and expert members of Congress represented their colleagues, and indeed the entire American people, in rendering the reasonable-person verdict. What did they do? They gave tacit approval. In fact, according to Goss, they offered encouragement. Given the existing circumstances, they clearly deemed the interrogations warranted. ...”
And Thomas Sowell wrote:
“....Whatever the verbal fencing over the meaning of the word “torture,” there is a fundamental difference between simply inflicting pain on innocent people for the sheer pleasure of it— which is what our terrorist enemies do— and getting life-saving information out of the terrorists by whatever means are necessary.
The left has long confused physical parallels with moral parallels. But when a criminal shoots at a policeman and the policeman shoots back, physical equivalence is not moral equivalence. And what American intelligence agents have done to captured terrorists is not even physical equivalence.
If we have reached the point where we cannot be bothered to think beyond rhetoric or to make moral distinctions, then we have reached the point where our own survival in an increasingly dangerous world of nuclear proliferation can no longer be taken for granted.” - Thomas Sowell May 13, 2009 Debate Over ‘Torture’ Lacks Seriousness
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/05/13/talking_points_96453.html