Comments on: Justice Department Bans Justice for Torturers

By: Jim

Jim — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:57:32 +0000

… as long as they can keep up some residue of popularity until after the next election….

By: Dirk W. Sabin

Dirk W. Sabin — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 15:19:48 +0000

Jim, unfortunately it is not hard at all to see where these various coverups and absolutions of malign means and ends will end. It will end as it always does, in the ash heap of empire. The only unknown is whether or not the forces of institutional entropy will act precipitously or in a protracted manner. Given the general acceptance of brinksmanship and emergency as a way of life……desperation plays being equal and all, I’d hazard the guess that we will see more of the precipitous than we will of the pleasures in a languorous decline. Time moves quickly now for empire and so history is even more unforgiving of delusional stubbornness.

It could still turn around but obviously, nobody at the helm is at all interested in a productive reckoning.

By: Jim

Jim — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 03:51:00 +0000

Helluva thing when “rule of law” becomes a trademark of extremists.

It is hard to see where all these coverups will end.

By: alpowolf

alpowolf — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 18:34:34 +0000

Jim, I think that is pretty much what they believe. Whenever I’m debating someone who is a “major” party butt-monkey, if I use words like “principles” or “rule of law”, etc., I’m accused of being an unrealistic “extremist”. The favored word nowadays seems to be “pragmatic”.

Of course they don’t use “pragmatic” as it’s defined in any normal dictionary. “Pragmatic” doesn’t mean having the president’s ballprints on one’s chin. I think I’m pretty pragmatic; when you consider the amount of Federal crap I put up with, without resorting to violence, I don’t think I can be called “extreme” at all.