the state of the world is deteriorating. why? standards of acceptable behaviour is sinking. people say, he does wrong and she does wrong... so why should i do the right thing??? and it deteriorates, and deteriorates. the downward spiral begins.
30 years ago, making a left turn from the right lane was hideously unacceptable. or reversing on the exit ramp was unacceptable. now, someone makes a mistake (and misses their exit) and rather than suck up the consequences, and go to the next exit and safely go to their destination, they endanger everyone by reversing on the exit ramp.
i still seethe with rage when i think of one such incident in DC 5 years ago (about). the woman caused a 25 car pile up with her own selfishness and irresponsibility. she missed an exit and reversed on the exit ramp.
so now bush thinks we should lower the standards of acceptable treatment of detainees. heck, he's lowering all of our standards. he thinks he is so smart and knows so much that he gets to decide where/who gets wire tapped, with no check or balance.
what is that going to do to future american prisoners? what happens when the rest of the world follows suit and decides it's ok to try american prisoners with confidential information? what happens when all countries are doing it to each other's citizens?
what happens when people from other people start kidnapping our citizens and putting them in secret prisons? what happens when our sons/daughters disappear of the map without explanation? how would you feel if your son/daughter disappears?
once we cede power, we can't get it back. why would they give it back? cuz it would be the right thing to do? history has shown that they have no intention of doing the right thing.
it's time to rise up. not to sink down. it's time to stand up and do the right thing. no matter how difficult it is. let's stop the deterioration. let's uphold some standards, ethics, and morals.
besides voting, what can you do? how about showing your fellow man(woman) some compassion... some respect. how about telling the truth? how about random acts of kindness? how about supporting your friends, even at your own inconvenience? help someone in need.
no matter what you do... please, let's get these selfish greedy wankers out of office. by all means, let's vote. this is the most corrupt congress/house *ever*. on both sides of the party line. for real. a large majority of them stink.
let's get them out.
2 comments:
the point is that we don't have to lower our standards to be just like them. we have to keep our ethics high, no matter what. if we engage in the same behaviour, then *we* are terrorists.
sure. you keep using the ww II analogy. a lot of people (much older than you or i do also). problem is, the state of weaponry in the world has changed such that we can't just go nuke someone anymore. lest we be nuked back.
but back on point. torturing more often than not yields ppl to lie just to get you to stop torturing.
we can't give the gov't blanket right to torture. we can give them a process to go through on a case-by-case basis as necessary.
but we can't give them blanket right to commit torture without oversight.
that's the point.
we lose the right to oversight and we are screw-ed.
Post a Comment