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Originally posted by ironweed
Maybe it's because some of us haven't stripped ourselves of the last remaining shreds of human decency and respect for the principles of justice -- which teach us that every human being, even the most vilified and scorned, should be considered innocent until proven guilty -- so as to wallow unencumbered in the comfortable and lazy self-righteousness that prevails at the intellectual and moral level of ignorant, bloodthirsty street mobs whipped into a frenzy by the lying demagogues who feed their members a steady diet of paranoid hatred?
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Now that's just unfuckingfair. Some of us believe in those principles, and quite deeply I might add, but simply cannot summon the interest level in the subject to do anything.
Bush succeeds in a lot of what he's doing because its hard enough to make a fucking buck and get by these days. My disgust at so much around me is pretty much exhausted miles before I can get to the point of taking up a torch for a fundamentalist rotting in a Cuban prison. I think we should try them and make real efforts to root out the truly innocent and send them home.
But as to the Taliban who aren't AQ, but are still rotting in Gitmo, well, caveat fucking emptor. If you support people who shoot women in soccer stadiums and live like goddamned barbarians, you've no one to blame for your sad lot but your own dumb ass.
