Extraordinary rendition.
What a bizarre, innocuous term for a heinous crime. A
crime that has apparently been committed over and over
again by our own government. You know what I think
when I read about cases of people being taken from
their work, people taken from their homes or from the
airport as they change planes, people who are picked
up in the name of "cleansing the world of the threat
of terrorism" and then disappear for years while they
are hidden and tortured and their families and friends
wonder what happened to them and their lives are
turned upside down and OUR GOVERNMENT is the cause of
it all because they heard a whisper, a rumor that this
person or that person is supporting this or that
terrorist group and MAYBE they are or maybe they
aren't but to some government officials it really
doesn't matter, a rumor is enough for them to
terrorize you, hide you for years, send you to a
foreign country to be tortured and it's all done in
the name of FREEDOM and in support of the AMERICAN
WAY? It's criminal.
In my opinion, we have invaded countries for less than
that on the basis of "in the name of freedom and
democracy" - we've condemned foreign leaders and
foreign policies for less then "disappearing" and
torturing people, we have pursuaded the United Nations
to place sanctions on countries who perform these
types of actions.
Are we the biggest hypocrites in the world or what?
We condemn and then we copy. We shake our heads and
then we do worse things. We quote God and the Bible,
and then we break the commandments.
Do as I say, not as I do. That's us.
We cerainly do not follow our own rules.
Some of this stuff we read everyday in the papers and
on the net are clearly violations of the Constitution
- is our Congress asleep? If our President doesn't
have the moral fortitude to follow the rules, why
don't the other hundreds of men and women who make up
our Congress get off their asses and make him?
I get really tired of hearing stuff like "cleansing
the world of terrorism" and "we are the leaders of the
free world" when we repeatedly show ourselves to be
morally corrupt. Why should anyone believe us? Why
shouldn't they get mad or quit listening and hit back?
In the schoolyard, the kids only take so much and then
they get together and beat the crap out of the bully
who's terrorizing them. If we're the bully, then
where does that leave everybody else?
If you don't hear from me again, it'll mean "someone"
took offense that I have an opinion - maybe I'll be
disappeared, too.
I hope the feds pay my bills while I'm gone.
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