Comments on: Once again, an Onion headline becomes reality http://www.dandickinson.com/wordpress/?p=2055 Skirl: (skûrl) n. A shrill wailing sound Mon, 06 Sep 2010 16:40:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Dan http://www.dandickinson.com/wordpress/?p=2055&cpage=1#comment-7654 Dan Fri, 29 Sep 2006 22:10:54 +0000 http://www.dandickinson.com/wordpress/?p=2055#comment-7654 Look, <a href="http://nick.typepad.com/blog/2006/09/what_is_happeni.html" rel="nofollow">even Nick agrees with me</a>. :) Look, even Nick agrees with me. :)

]]> By: Dan http://www.dandickinson.com/wordpress/?p=2055&cpage=1#comment-7653 Dan Fri, 29 Sep 2006 22:10:19 +0000 http://www.dandickinson.com/wordpress/?p=2055#comment-7653 Calling the Bush administration "freewheeling" is like calling Osama Bin Laden "innovative". In any case, I don't think this is small potatoes. This is slowly chipping away at the foundation of their government, and undermining the one branch of government that isn't overtly political. The president has declared himself -- with the consent of the Senate -- better suited to judge what is and what is not torture than the Supreme Court and the internationally agreed-upon interpretation of the Geneva Convention. America usually learns from its mistakes and looks back at periods in its history when rights and freedoms were restricted by small-minded men -- like puritanism, prohibition and McCarthyism -- and feels ashamed. This will be no different. Calling the Bush administration “freewheeling” is like calling Osama Bin Laden “innovative”.

In any case, I don’t think this is small potatoes. This is slowly chipping away at the foundation of their government, and undermining the one branch of government that isn’t overtly political. The president has declared himself — with the consent of the Senate — better suited to judge what is and what is not torture than the Supreme Court and the internationally agreed-upon interpretation of the Geneva Convention.

America usually learns from its mistakes and looks back at periods in its history when rights and freedoms were restricted by small-minded men — like puritanism, prohibition and McCarthyism — and feels ashamed. This will be no different.

]]> By: Colin http://www.dandickinson.com/wordpress/?p=2055&cpage=1#comment-7651 Colin Fri, 29 Sep 2006 21:48:10 +0000 http://www.dandickinson.com/wordpress/?p=2055#comment-7651 Re dark days, I'd note that the freewheeling style in the US is not new (right to bear arms, lumber tarrifs, trade protection, [ill]legal immigrants, etc), so if there are concerns about the US, and their interpretation of internatoinal law, this is small potatoes. PS: I think I sense, and like, the diirection towards commentary, in shrill. Re dark days, I’d note that the freewheeling style in the US is not new (right to bear arms, lumber tarrifs, trade protection, [ill]legal immigrants, etc), so if there are concerns about the US, and their interpretation of internatoinal law, this is small potatoes.

PS: I think I sense, and like, the diirection towards commentary, in shrill.

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