I do not claim affiliation with any political party but I love people who see the Obama administration as a sign of the last days with socialism at our doorsteps, but who apparently had no problem when the last administration got us into a unjustified war, wire tapped citizens and justified torture in the name of national security. So I really enjoyed this editorial from the Trib.
"An overheard conversation among several women at a local deli: "I can't believe this country elected Obama as president; it must be a sign of the end times when the Constitution will hang by a thread." The irony of this uniquely Utah political thread about church elders saving the Constitution might have shocked the lunch bunch had they read The Dark Side by Jane Mayer (Doubleday, 2008).
Reading Mayer's disturbing book is likely to lead to the conclusion that the Constitution is more imperiled than ever; but it also reveals the troubling fingerprints of several of my fellow Mormons whose handiwork, not the Obama election, did so much to create the present crisis.
Although the decisions which put us in the grim business of torture, body-snatching, extraordinary renditions, making people disappear, indefinite confinement without charges and warrantless wiretapping were made by the president and vice president, members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints served as helpful enablers. Not only did they provide the legal architecture, they provided the "scientific" patina for the plunge into the barbaric business of torture."
Read the rest of the Editorial here
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2 comments:
Excellent!!...but can you get away with writing things like this in Utah? You are a brave man!
Cheers!
So now you hate America and The Church? Have fun in Hell, or Iraq, wherever you're headed:)
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