10-09-2009, 09:35 PM
Ed Jewett Wrote:Published on Wednesday, September 9, 2009 by TruthDig.com
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We, a people whose nation has never suffered a long and widespread occupation, easily gave vent to our most barbaric impulses, assuming the absolute right to arrest and torture anyone anywhere in the world without revealing his identity, let alone respecting a single one of those God-given rights that we claim for ourselves alone. And even when we identify the few we hold responsible for the attacks on our soil, we refuse them public and fair trials even after years of torturing them.
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" We, a people whose nation has never suffered a long and widespread occupation, easily gave vent to our most barbaric impulses..."
ludicrious -- we simply have bigger sticks.
Having grown up with the San Francisco Chronicle, and its green sheet, I can state, when Herb Caen died in 1997, the SFChronicle died!