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art--your position seems to come back to a matter of "trusting the government" as you talked about in a earlier thread--in this situation, as i have been trying to argue, experience is showing that the quality of information--coming from idiot things like the tips lines--is dubious at best----in which case basic legal protections are absolutely required, are the only recourse in the face of what amounts to the racist-inspired abuse of state power.
as for outsourcing torture, and your argument concerning "avowed enemies"--the first i would reject out of hand. the second is entwined with the problems i mentioned above--shitty information, hysterical times, a committment to a notion of total war against an invisible enemy--problems arise at every step.
and no, i do not trust this. i do not trust the bush administration. ia m not sure if i woudl trust any administration enough to watch it set basic legal rights on fire.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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