Sunday, June 29, 2008

The ordinary face of evil

Photo: Susan Walsh / Associated Press

Critics of the Bush administration's interrogation policies have said Addington spearheaded legal changes that allowed for tougher interrogations.

I heard a clip of this guy on Democracy Now! program on Friday. He is clearly the embodiment of evil. Amazing how such evil people look so ordinary. He treated the US Congress and their session as something beneath his contempt, while at the same time he proposes that EVIL IS GOING TO GET US – in the form of “al Qaeda” terrorists.

I can tell you what will ‘get’ us – having US citizens trained to act like barbarians and then hired into public employment.

Here is a clip from an article about this evil man:

And he lectured the committee on the continuing nature of the terrorist threat. "No American should think we're free, the war is over, Al Qaeda is not coming and they're not interested in getting us," Addington told the Constitution, civil rights and civil liberties subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee. "Because that's wrong."

Yet when Democrats tried to pin him down on the moral and legal issues they considered crucial, Addington brushed them aside with barely concealed disdain.

Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.), who later characterized Addington's attitude as "smug," asked whether, if the interrogation program was found to be illegal, he would bear any responsibility.

"Is that a moral question or a legal question?" Addington asked, then said he bore no responsibility, legal or moral.

At one point, he would not even say if it was okay for bush to bury someone alive in order to “keep us safe”. These abuses of executive power are not going to go away, but you can bet this same evil man, and his buddies, will be screaming about it when Obama abuses executive powers. They will have a fit.

Boy, these people make me sick.

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