Principals of ideals.

I've been thinking lately that the common prospect of what’s going on in Washington and in light of the recent mass election is although pretty typical on the surface, carries some serious undertones.

I don’t know about you, but I’m personally offended at all the hub-bub going on about the Christmas bomber. If you follow the news even casually you’ll hear debates and arguments about how the FBI should have defined him as an enemy combatant rather than reading him his rights and placing him in civilin court. The crux of the concern isn’t about whether or not he’d get the “right trial” its so that they could “more appropriately interrogate him”. Which of course means, so they can torture him.

Im disheartened to see so many people do not even hear the word torture anymore. Like with all other harsh concepts the speakers having thrown a hand full of more words, or syllables at a hard concept they have diluted it into something that isn’t even heard anymore. No longer do you hear “enhanced interrogations” even though it sounds better than “torture” but its still too much. The recent senator elect Brown here in mass, was clear and outspoken about needing to get this guy “properly interrogated” as if torture was the only way you can talk to someone who has committed a crime. Never mind innocent until proven guilty.

And its not that I think that Mr, light-my-balls-on-fire isn’t guilty, it’s the principal of the matter. If you have a standard for truth and justice, an approach to what you believe is the right way to prosecute a crime against a government or its people, well then that principal shouldn’t waver depending on geography, or religion or political popularity. It’s a principal, it never changes, it remains a cornerstone to a belief. That all men are created equal and that “In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial,” There’s no exceptions to that, it doesn’t say, that the bill of rights was written for only the superior peoples of the United States. It was written for all men as a set of ideals, and principals as an example to the world on how governments should act to its people and for its people. This ideal makes it a human right not just a citizens right. Which is why we fail so miserably in the eyes of the world.

The slippery slope here of course, is that who determines what a terrorist type crime against the United states or its people is? Technically all crime is against the US or its people, so one could conjure; and as its clearly manifested in this debate, and in the debate of the guy who shot of the Ft Hood community center. That anyone that the government wishes to remove from public trial, and place into a military tribunal, free to torture, and detain forever can do so and nothing and no one will ever stop them. In fact, it wont even be discussed.