No more shall I be/ loyal to my sorrowful country.

"My power vanishes into thin air the instant that my fellow citizens, who are straight and honest, cease to believe that I represent them and fight for what is straight and honest. That is all the strength that I have."
-Teddy Roosevelt


http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060929/pl_nm/security_guantanamo_dc_18


Even fucking JJ Abrams gets it- torture doesn't work. At best, it delivers faulty and coerced information. At worst, it kills; it punches a hole through the intelligence operations of our foreign agents; destroys the fabric of relationships between the CIA and informants; morally bankrupts us; breeds anti-USA and anti-democracy rhetoric; and turns our complex, highly trained intelligence operatives into a pack of thugs and bullies, complete with memories that will haunt them and scar their relationships for life. It is wrong. It is inefficient. It is filthy, dirty, horrible, and for fuck's sake- it doesn't work.

And eventually, we'll see where the new definitions of 'enemy combatant' take us. To librarians that submit anti-war books to a reading list ? To profesors who teach the truth ? To ministers who preach peace ?

I guess we'll see each other there, on that list.