I'm sure there are thousands of examples of this in the last month alone, but this one made me snap.
Lynn Sweet of the Chicago Sun-Times wrote an article that is listed under a banner that says, "NEWS". The news she wishes to relay is that it's really bad when someone points out the attrocities that are being committed in our name, and we should hope they never come true.
Please read the article, and reply to her accordingly.
My response is after the leap.
So let me get this straight, Lynn. It won't be until we start closing in on 6 million dead in concentration camps that you'll even entertain any comparison to horrible regimes?
When we claim to be the best and most free government in the history of the world, we don't have the luxury of comparing ourselves favorably to Stalin or Hitler.
Let me spell it out for you. George Bush has imprisoned Americans indefinitely. He claims that he never has to bring charges against them. America has extradited prisoners to other countries so that they could be tortured. American soldiers have tortured prisoners on CIA and military orders. This administration claims the Geneva Convention does not apply to them in this situation. Nobody denies any of this.
You write: "No behavior, I pray, should ever again rise to that level."
Great! So how do we work to prevent this, Lynn? Let's all kneel down and pray it never happens again. Does praying erect an invisble shield around our civil rights?
Obviously, Nazi Germany and Stalin's Soviet Union reached their period of horrible excess because Germans and Soviets, respectively, complained about it. And if only those non-patriotic complainers could have been silenced, the holocaust never would have happened!
You should be ashamed to have failed so miserably in your position as journalist.