U.S. Tortured Detainees And Top Officials Are Responsible: Report
Tuesday, April 16, 2013
When you "look forward, not back".
When you refuse to impeach BushCheney because "Republicans will say it's just because they impeached Clinton".
When you refuse to prosecute neocons who lied to Congress so that they could attack Iraq.
When you don't uphold the laws of the land, when you don't drive discredited offenders out of the halls of power, they return to the public stage, only to raise the ante on the destruction they're willing to do to their opponents.
You can't go forward unless and until you've looked back, assessed and corrected what went wrong.
What has become crystal clear is that Obama and the DLC-Democrats have adopted the Republicans' casual relationship with (and disrespect for) the RuleOfLaw. Preserving the rule of law underpins how the US has been the most successful, longest running democracy in world history.
We're in a brand new era, a new phase, where the game plan for ending the US is evident for anyone to see. And it begins and ends with the RuleofLaw. By refusing to investigate and prosecute Bush, by "looking forward, not back", Obama has broken the covenant that the American people have with their government.
BushCo broke federal US laws; the RuleOfLaw applies to all Americans, elected officials, too. Elected officialsespecially.
The UnitedStates works, or it did, because of a covenant WeThePeople make with our government. We agree to a democratic republic, where other people make the laws under which we agree to abide (and that'll be applied to everyone), as long as we get to choose who those people are who'll be making the laws. It's under those conditions that we consent to be governed.
When we no longer trust in the process, when we no longer trust that the selection process by which our elected representatives is fair and accurate, or that the laws don't apply equally to all, then all bets are off. And no government can stand once that happens.
For a president of the UnitedStates not to equally apply the law to all people, presidents, too, means that the grand experiment is over.
Not prosecuting BushCo is destroying the country. It's allowing precedents to stand, that'll only mean future presidents will build upon those past precedents set by Bush. From those precedents spring aberration -- Obama's already built upon Bush's claims of 'UnitaryExecutive', asserting that presidents have the right to kill American citizens with no due process, no oversight, and no legislative or judicial review. Obama's already imposed a policy of 'indefinite preventive detention', again, imprisoning anyone, anywhere, anytime, forever, if a president chooses, with NO DUE PROCESS, no oversight.
How any Democrat defends that is beyond my understanding.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost
