re: #1356 Obdicut

NO I actually didn’t. I directed my comments to:

To those of you who fear actually applying the law

And those folks are a part of the right. Just not any right that cares about applying the law in a speedy, fair or open way.

How many of them wrote about the detainees not having any rights. Fenway was just now going on about how a real trial would be a bad thing because of things like right of discovery. Others wrote about how the intelligence was good enough already. Others wrote about how they do not care about any trial at all.

So few actually cared about little things like due process or the rule of law.

Earlier there were a bunch of them still trying to claim that waterboarding is not torture, and a smaller set that said, yes it is, so what.

So to those… well, they are not so very American in their views at all. Certainly not the America I was taught to believe in, or that their other words about loving liberty and all the patriotic speechification about loving what America stands for would imply.

No they are hypocrites for the reasons mentioned.

They tool real offence at pointing out that nations like Russia and China and North Korea also hold people without any fairness, openness or due process and they too torture. They really hate that the things they are proudly claiming America ought to do are what these other nations actually do.

So no, it was quite apt to address them as such. They are jingoistic hypocrites at best and those who would gleefully tear down all America stands for at worst.