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| Ok, let's put it on the table - Arabs suck |
excon |
05/03/04 |
Hello again you right and left wingers:
Attitude!! Bigotry!!!
I don’t suggest that what happened at the prison is the result of written policy. However, I am suggesting that our collective racism has been allowed to undermine that policy. Plus, I further suggest, that the Bush Administration is at the root of this racism.
It’s not overt racism either. We’re too smart for that – it’s covert (the worst kind). We still speak democratic platitudes out of the right side of our mouth, while the left side think Arabs are scum. And, I personally, understand it. I’m mad as hell at the Arabs and have been for years. I’m a Jew.
But, as a nation, we need to rise above our collective racism. If we don’t actively, positively, and purposefully train our prison guards in appropriate behavior, then we encourage inappropriate behavior. If we don’t consider our prisoners (all of them) to be worthy of the rights spelled out in our Constitution, then we foster that racism (and I don’t care where a particular person was born).
We should not have looked for reasons make up a new classification (enemy combatant) of prisoner specifically to ensure that they have no rights. Instead we should have looked for reasons to include them. We don’t have to look far – The Geneva Convention, The Constitution, The Trials at Nuremburg. We should have shown the world what democracy really means - that even our most hated enemy is treated fairly.
But we didn’t. So, I’m not surprised that soldiers, who were given no guidance, acted the way they did. But they were carrying out your and my policy, weren’t they?
excon
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