In my post about the idiotic over-reaction to a New Jersey 10-year-old posing with his new squirrel rifle , Dana Garrett left me this response: One waits, apparently in vain, for you to post the annual rates of children who either shoot themselves or someone else with a gun. But then you Libertarians are notoriously ambivalent to and silent about data and facts and would rather talk abstract principles and fear monger (like the government will confiscate your guns). It doesn't require any degree of subtlety to see why you are data and fact adverse. The facts indicate we have a crisis with gun violence and accidents in the USA, and Libertarians offer nothing credible to address it. Lives, even the lives of children, get sacrificed to the fetishism of liberty. That's intellectual cowardice. OK, Dana, let's talk facts. According to the Children's Defense Fund , which is itself only querying the CDCP data base, fewer than 10 children/teens were killed per year in Delaw
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Obama is now going for the people who ordered torture and attempted to justify it - give it some sense of legality.
(1) Where's your evidence that he's going for them? All administration sources say otherwise.
(2) Carrying out illegal orders is--guess what?--a crime. So determined at Nuremberg.
Feinstein is as guilty as the Bushcos. She wants to do the investigation (Senate Intell Committee), to make sure the democrats on board with Cheney and the torturers. That investigation along with torture never sees the light of day.
It makes no difference which party...both are totally corrupt.
The authorization and justification of torture and its implementation....can the morality be shaved and shredded?
The investigation will go forward but it will probably end with excuses and inaction.