ROOM FOR INDIVIDUAL RESPONSIBILITY
Torture was done in your name. America "disappeared people" to "black sites".
The idea that people who are in and run the government do not have to give a full and free account of their actions, when asked, is pretty radical for a democracy (but then again, once the fix is in down in D.C., we don't have much of that, do we?).
I have little hope that anyone will be held accountable by 'the system' for what went on. God knows, the Congress won't even enforce its subpoenas on Rove; and this man, who refuses to sit for the People's House, continues to be a fairly major "celebrity voice" on opinion and pretend-news channels and beyond.
Anyway, I'd like to believe that there is still room for individual responsibility, as much as that threatens people with a narrow view of the chain of command.
Did they have to cherry pick the people who got involved in these interrogations? Did some people refuse? How were the new Bush-Cheney torture polices presented to them?
Saturday, April 11, 2009
America the Beautiful, Under George Bush Republicans
