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NY Times Editorial Says It All

By PD Dude

Regulars here know that I've written about our country's shameful human rights record over the last 7 years, as we've raced to the bottom in areas such as torture, privacy, indefinite detentions for people without meaningful rights to be heard, and things of the like. The NY Times has written an editorial that says it all, though, and notes, quite presciently, that our country is quickly becoming unrecognizable.The reality is, we have not been the leader in support of human rights for the last decade only because it gives us some tactical or propaganda advantage against our enemies, we have done it because we felt that it distinguished us from our enemies. The reason was this was how you could tell good countries from bad - not just by the fact that they lined up on one side of the fence or another, but because of the quality of their character...continue to full post

Full post as published by Public Defender Dude on January 01, 2008 (boomark / email).