From Pine View Farm

UnAmerican Activities. 5

Andrew Sullivan said it better than I could (though it’s been nagging me all day):

“When I was in Vietnam, one of the things that sustained us, as we went — underwent torture ourselves — is the knowledge that if we had our positions reversed and we were the captors, we would not impose that kind of treatment on them,” – John McCain, last night.

I hadn’t thought of it exactly that way before. Part of what sustains American servicemembers in captivity and subject to torture is the knowledge that they are part of something morally different than the enemy they are fighting. That knowledge is now over, under the command of George W. Bush. How much more of America are we going to sacrifice to defend America? At what point will we have to destroy what’s different about America in order to save it?

How shameful it is that a majority of the empty-suit pretenders to the Current Federal Administrator’s throne believe that the way to that throne is through the wreckage of the Constition of the United States of America and through the violation of what this nation has stood for, however imperfectly, since its inception.

The Republican Party could once claim to be the Party that saved the Union. It is now the Party that betrays the Union.

The Republican Party’s betrayal of American values, of America’s history, of the American struggle cannot fail to be one of the greatest betrayals recorded.

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5 comments

  1. chris the plumber

    May 18, 2007 at 8:05 am

    They would not let me fight, I was 4f.

     
  2. Opie

    May 18, 2007 at 6:29 pm

    I didn’t know they had 4f’s in the War of 1812.

     
  3. Karen

    May 18, 2007 at 7:46 pm

    Good one, Opie! That hurt him.

     
  4. chris the plumber

    May 18, 2007 at 8:38 pm

    Oh steve you hit a man when he is down, and on Franks web site……..oh bad boy!!!

     
  5. chris the plumber

    May 19, 2007 at 8:46 am

    I know when I’m wooped!! LOL!