Showing posts with label prosecutions. Show all posts
Showing posts with label prosecutions. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 27, 2009

The People vs. Dick Cheney

A sort of disturbing article. Is justice possible?

I found this paragraph particularly depressing:

"Perhaps the biggest question, though, is one of political will given that Americans, it seems, really aren't that upset about what has happened. A recent University of Maryland poll found that tolerance for torture of suspected terrorists has actually risen in recent years, from 36 percent in 2006 to 44 percent last June."

Yes, Obama won by a landslide in '08, but US public opposition to an illegal war and the abridgment of civil liberties during the Bush years was weak at best.What has the USA become?



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