Happy Martin Luther King Day! It seems serendipitous that the civil rights leader’s birthday falls on the eve of Barack Obama’s inauguration. I like Jesse Jackson’s recounting of Dr. King’s final birthday, and I can only agree with him that Dr. King, if alive, would be beaming at this moment in history. Concerning president-elect Obama’s [...]
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Sustainable Torture
March 10th, 2008 · No Comments · politics, sustainability
While I had a beautiful weekend of planting fruit trees, singing in church and spending time with Thor, I woke at 5 this morning from a dream of a man being tortured, specifically waterboarded. Do you think I might be troubled by President Bush’s recent veto of Congressional efforts to curb the CIA’s “harsh interrogation tactics” (torture) of prisoners?
Politics is not my primary topic, because it’s covered so thoroughly elsewhere
Tags: Bush·CIA·Congess·immorality·morality·outrage·President Bush·torture·waterboarding
