so sayeth David Addington, Vlad Cheney's chief torturer.
Yes, I know I am taking that line out of context. So sue me. This is the gentleman who bears the second-greatest responsiblity, other than Dick Cheney, for turning this nation from "a beacon of liberty and freedom" into "a nation of torturers." When a brutal bunch of thugs like the junta in Myanmar or the Mugabe regime justify their torturing of dissidents by pointing to the actions of Americans at Baghram Air Base, Guantanamo Bay, Abu Ghraib or the CIA's network of secret prisons, the responsibility for that can be laid at the feet of David Addington.
Dana Milbank's story is also worth reading.
Addington, a real piece of purile pond scum, is the enemy of freedom and liberty. This is the man who came up with the idea that the Vice President is accountable to nobody on the face of this planet. This man would cheerfully order the imprisonment of a million Americans and the execution of thousands, if not more, and he would not lose a night's sleep over it. Addington would have been at home carrying out Stalin's Great Purge in the 1930s. He would have excelled on the staff of Joseph McCarthy.
Freedom is often more at risk from those who say they seek to preserve it. Addington is one of those.
"We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We must remember always that accusation is not proof and that conviction depends upon evidence and due process of law. We will not walk in fear, one of another. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason, if we dig deep in our history and our doctrine, and remember that we are not descended from fearful men -- not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate and to defend causes that were, for the moment, unpopular." -- Edward R. Murrow, 1954
(H/T to the Alternate Brain)
Somebody needs to keep tabs on that dirty bastard after January so he can be snatched out of bed in the middle of the night and disappeared to Syria.
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