Comments on: Extremist Senate Republicans Reject Basic Standards of Morality

By: Sarge

Sarge — Fri, 07 Oct 2005 11:41:14 +0000

I still think Iraq/Afghanistan/Gitmo thing is just the out of town try outs for what the powers that be would like to see here. The bill of rights has been pretty much reduced to a legal fiction, and they keep encrioaching little by little in domestic life. No conspiracy, just consensus. They see it as a tool, nothing more.

Ollie North and company (Poindexter with his clergyperson wife right behind him) said that for what he and his buds had planned, if there was public opposition they’d simply suspend the constitution and institute martial law. I have a feeling that we’ll see an Oranianburg or Dachau equivelant if that happens, a place for the production of horrible examples. People were released early in the regimes, so they’d talk about what happened to them.

By: Ralph

Ralph — Thu, 06 Oct 2005 17:50:43 +0000

But wait, Inhofe is a man of God! How could he possibly support torture?

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 06 Oct 2005 17:23:39 +0000

I’m not too surprised. Sen. McCain has life experience with forces that consider torture as not only acceptable, but downright fun (the North Vietnamese Army), and, therefore, knows what it’s like with the shoe on the other foot, so to speak. In short, he’s been there…while Bush and his cronies not only don’t have the foggiest clue, but their true “Family Values” and “Christian Love” have been exposed for all the world to see. It’s people like these in my government that make me ashamed to be an American at times…No, that’s not true. I’m ashamed of THEM claiming to be ANY REAL AMERICAN’S elected representative. They certainly don’t represent me.

By: Wild Bill

Wild Bill — Thu, 06 Oct 2005 15:52:29 +0000

Thanks for posting this comment. You’re absolutely right. The 9 Senators who voted against the amendment have let us down.

I’m doubly troubled because 2 of those 9 senators are from my home state, Oklahoma, where our cherished values include faith, family, honor, etc. — but not TORTURE.

Senators Coburn and Inhofe are extremists who are out of touch with conventional standards of decency.

I’m working on that letter to the editor!

Thanks, again.