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Are they less than dogs?
Why is it that good kids get prison for pot, but wicked presidents go free after ordering torture?
Why is it that “just following orders” was no excuse at Nuremberg, but the Obama justice department finds it adequate for military abusers in the USA?
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As the Michael Vick case demonstrates, we don’t allow most Americans to practice this level of cruelty against dogs. What reason is there for excusing it against fellow human beings?
Is it because they are Muslims that torturing them has no penalty? Is it because they are not white? Is it because they are not US citizens? Is a Muslim life worth less than a Christian or a Jewish or an atheist life? Is a Pakistani or a Uighur less than a dog under American law?
Is it because we don’t really expect presidents to respect the Constitution they swear to defend? But what good is constitutional government if the privileged are not equally restrained by it?
This ruin of innocent lives will never be addressed unless Americans demand it. It can be demanded by following the “take action” link, where there is a simple way to email Senators and Representatives.
No life can be trashed at will by lawless government. Write. Write until the least influential have equal justice with privileged politicians.
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When the fur flies
OK, let’s take a break from heavy stuff.
Got a woolly mammal in your house? You may have just found your winter project. Authors say: “Better a sweater from a dog you know and love than from a sheep you’ll never meet.”
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Tags: pet+hair, dogs, dog fur, pet+fur, pets, sweaters, knitting, spinning, craft, Monte Asbury
Americans of a Lesser God?
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I came across this honest piece at the excellent Blog for Iowa. Sounds like it was originally published in my home-town newspaper, The Burlington Hawk-Eye. [That’s beautiful Burlington, left, at the top.]
I had the following published in the Burlington newspaper last Saturday. I offer it here for people to use, distribute further, etc. My essay is a little long and rambling, but I have been silent too long. And we dare not lose this fight.
David Ure
Burlington, Iowa
~To what lesser God do those people who have no health care insurance belong? What sin did they commit? I have no doubt some of them have made mistakes, made bad choices, engaged in illegal or immoral activities in some instances, didn’t get themselves elected to the state house or Congress; but not all 47 million plus.
The time has come, if we are to continue to call ourselves a nation of God and faith and fairness, for every American to have health insurance. My preference is to plop everyone into Medicare whose operational costs are half to 2/3 lower than the private sector, and allow the insurance companies the opportunity to sell all of us supplemental policies as my elderly, now long-gone, relatives purchased for years.
But I won’t say it has to be this way or nothing. More than anything else, I want to see coverage in place for everyone, and for it to be there in as direct and obvious a manner as can be cobbled together. Read the rest of this entry »
UN Rapporteur: Not prosecuting torturers is illegal
From an interview with the Austrian newspaper Der Standard:
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If we hope to bring the USA into a relationship with other nations based on mutual respect of international law, how can we flaunt it ourselves? If we hope to see a world without torture, how can we sweep our own sins under the rug?
Time to face the music, Mr. President. Pursuing good vibrations internally does not justify the excusing of criminal acts or further flaunting of international and American law.
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