60 years since Auschwitz
photo credit: auschwitz - by Ilana Tamir
It has been sixty years to the day since Auschwitz was liberated. The scars done by previous generations are still being ripped open even today. We say "Never Again" but it will, and has, happened again. It is too easy to dismiss the plight of "the other." Be they Jewish or Tutsi's or Armenian or any marginalized group, we have a duty so that the atrocities never happens again. But it has - there is more than enough blame to go around. The torture and pain which follow has happened again, and was sanctioned by our government. I get worked up about torture because once we go down that path, the end of the slope are barb-wire enclosed camps with furnaces in them. We are supposed to be the shining beacon on a hill. That is why this President is not my President - he sanctions torture, one of the most despicable and cowardly act our country has sanctioned. This is why today is important, and why we cannot let atrocities, in any form, stand.
That is why Alberto Gonzales cannot, and should not, be confirmed as Attorney General. As someone who expressly condoned the use of torture - even going as far as extra-legally claiming that torturers have immunity granted by the President - Gonzales is both a bad lawyer and has no moral compass or values. America does not torture people. Period.
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