I would argue that yesterday was the darkest day in modern American history. Forget political assassinations and days of mass murder, bad fortune in war or finance or politics: The day that our own elected representatives decide that we, their constituents and citizens of this democracy, are no longer entitled to the rights of habeas corpus (first enshrined in our legal heritage via the Magna Carta of 1215), nor necessarily entitled to legal representation, nor to the assurance that our own government will not torture us if it so wishes, is quite simply the worst manifestation of partisan demagoguery we have seen since the last World War.
We can only hope that it does not get worse from here.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
1 comment:
I've stopped hoping and started phonebanking for get-out-the-vote efforts for moveon.org.
I suggest you do too.
http://www.moveon.org/
Post a Comment