3000 people have no civil rights today per Sessions, over and over and

[Humor_In_Cuneiform]

[boobooday]

1. And 100,000 Iraqis will never get to vote

That should be our answer. The Iraqi people who have died in Bush's war will never experience democracy, either. Or human rights.

[Brotherjohn]

And thousands murdered every year in America don't either.

Let's just lock up anybody that looks funny then!

[Brotherjohn]

2. SELF-DELETE (DUPE POST).

[drm604]

3. Sounds like a new talking point. We'll probably be hearing it a lot.

They're preying on people's fears again. They're saying, in other words, that we're better off with less civil rights than dead. So once again they're asking that we give up liberty for security. That's a cowardly and un-American way of looking at things.

It's also a false dichotomy. It doesn't have to be either one or the other. We need to strive for both liberty AND a reasonable level of security. If you're willing to give up liberty for (the illusion of) complete security then you'll never have liberty because the real world is inherently an insecure place. You can be hit by a truck. Should we therefore never cross the street? You can be killed a mugger. Should we therefore never leave the house? And yes, you could be killed by a terrorist. Should we therefore give up our civil liberties?

[Humor_In_Cuneiform]

4. I'm afraid we are going to hear it a lot. I wish someone might ask about

the over 2000 troops, the many Iraqi civilians who also have no civil rights.

It is beyond sickening.

I wish there was a way to pre-empt the dissemination of that talking point.


Blech!!!!