Frank Rich delivers the balance
My post below speaks of the complicity of Congress, indicating it’s down to its final chance to get it right. Yet while I was writing it, I was fully cognizant that our government still is of, by and for the people. Us. And if we fail to force Congress to save the country, then the onus is on us, too. And Frank Rich delivers a helluva column making that point perfectly.
Not all of us will be guilty of benign neglect. I believe the majority of the citizenry still stands for the rule of law and wants to restore legitimacy to our government and restore our nation’s values to one of clear, unbending principles.
I don’t care what party you belong to. Are you with the good of humanity or are you against it? There is no neutral position, no escape. Answer the question of whether our America, our democracy will exist. Or whether you surrender it and create an inferior second rate country in its place.
October 14th, 2007 at 9:27 am
Thank you you to Frank Rich for his column today regarding torture. The youtube video at this link extraoirdinary rendition mashes together various Bush administration denials in support of the argument. Americans must decide if we are a nation which allows torture or not. Whether we as a nation should conduct torture is fundamentally not political question but a moral and legal one. With this issue once again front and center as a result of the recent leaked memos, the American people have an opportunity to assert their basic decency and work to oppose torture of human beings under any circumstances. Taking steps to ensure that we do not torture can turn this country back from its current path by addressing issues of legal rights, executive authority and in the process reestablish America’s moral authority and standing with the international community and with US citizens. John Kirk