Comments on: Game Changer http://www.pointedstick.net/colter/2009/04/22/1082/ the further adventures of the luckiest bastard you ever saw Sat, 28 Jan 2012 22:45:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Scott http://www.pointedstick.net/colter/2009/04/22/1082/comment-page-1/#comment-42545 Scott Fri, 05 Jun 2009 15:42:14 +0000 http://www.pointedstick.net/colter/?p=1082#comment-42545 Amen to prosecution... what gets me the most is that it seems that most people respond to this story with "meh". I think you probably already read his blog, but in my opinion, Andrew Sullivan has written the most eloquent and clear-headed responses to all of this. EVERYONE should read Andrew Sullivan. Amen to prosecution… what gets me the most is that it seems that most people respond to this story with “meh”. I think you probably already read his blog, but in my opinion, Andrew Sullivan has written the most eloquent and clear-headed responses to all of this. EVERYONE should read Andrew Sullivan.

]]> By: RadFemVegan http://www.pointedstick.net/colter/2009/04/22/1082/comment-page-1/#comment-40609 RadFemVegan Wed, 06 May 2009 14:45:34 +0000 http://www.pointedstick.net/colter/?p=1082#comment-40609 There was an excellent article about this very idea in the Nation today. It's entitled, 'Why the New Torture Defense Is a Good Defense' and it discusses the complicity of the general public towards the Bush Administration's policy on torture and argues that if the 'public supports something, then it is not illegal.' There are morals and then there are laws. They are not the same. With regards to the question of the torture that occured in Guantanamo Bay, we may discover that it was legal, but as a human being, I am outraged that such a lapse in morality could be sanctioned as such and that the perpetrators of these moral crimes may never face justice. There was an excellent article about this very idea in the Nation today.

It’s entitled, ‘Why the New Torture Defense Is a Good Defense’ and it discusses the complicity of the general public towards the Bush Administration’s policy on torture and argues that if the ‘public supports something, then it is not illegal.’

There are morals and then there are laws. They are not the same. With regards to the question of the torture that occured in Guantanamo Bay, we may discover that it was legal, but as a human being, I am outraged that such a lapse in morality could be sanctioned as such and that the perpetrators of these moral crimes may never face justice.

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