Wednesday, March 29, 2006

Does the US Torture Enough?

If you are interested in the absurd, FoxNews never fails. Covering the Moussaoui trial, FoxNews speculated that our torture policy was too late in coming.

Notice the specialty of FoxNews, their leading caption.

"Could 9/11 have been avoided if Moussaoui was tortured?"

There is a disconnect in the logic of the right when they assert that our "unalienable rights" are God given and not merely created by the laws of a government, and yet they refuse to respect those rights unless you are a citizen, and a friendly one at that, to this government. If these rights are given by God by virtue of merely being created in his image, do they not apply to citizens and non-citizens alike? On the other hand, were these rights to merely be gifts from the benevolent state, such a policy of selective application would have better support.

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