No, not touting my own horn. In fact, not in much of a party mood, am I?
Don't you just hate when that happens?
To plagiarize from myself, “as long as the left hand does not know what the right is up to, groups like Amnesty International and CCR will not be among those laying off workers for the global unemployment queues”, and well, thanks to the commenter on my post, I just found out I was right. The good folks at Amnesty International USA aren’t out of a job yet. At least, partially right, anyway, and now, as an Obama supporter, all I can say is, I had better be right on the remaining half, too.
Yes, I would abhor a government where there is no accountability because no one knows what everyone around them is doing – including the top echelons of power – and the only light at the end of the tunnel is that of the retirement bennies. But honest to God, I would much rather take that over the other sort, the one where our new Commander in Chief who had gotten his landslide victory precisely on the promise to do better, is signing off on the orders to close down Gitmo with the same pen, with which he later bestows on Mr. Letter the constitution-unsanctified right to persist with the governmental coverup of atrocities committed in the name of our continued safety and freedom.
Because, you see, per New York Times, questioned whether the new men on top are aware of the government attorney’s motion to dismiss before the US 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on the case of Mr. Binyam Mohamed and four other detainees against a Boeing subsidiary for arranging flights for the Bush administration’s “extraordinary rendition” program on the grounds that even trying the suit would result in the security leaks, the man replied with “No, your Honor.” The stand he was taking, he said, was “thoroughly vetted with the appropriate officials within the new administration,” and “these are the authorized positions” .
Considering that according to Mr. Mohamed’s own diary obtained by Telegraph, he was systematically tortured, shuttled from one hellhole of a prison to another, denied the basic rights accorded, at least nominally, our worst serial killers and sex offenders, and bearing in mind he is now well into the second month of his hunger strike, doesn’t it stand to reason that the more expeditiously the case is tried, the better its chances of wiping clean the accusations of cruelty and violations of the tenets (if not the letter) of the Geneva Protocol staining our nation?
And yet, famous for its call to change, the new President’s administration is following in the bloodied footsteps of the last. And leaving this disappointed voter, at least, hoping for a lesser evil.
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