Reply #13: We're getting to it at last [View All]

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The rights enumerated in the Constitution are available to everyone or no one. If it's a United States agency administering a facility, all the rules apply or none of them do. Either all of us, from the First Citizen right down to the lowliest terrorist murdering scum (and there may not be as great a distance between the two as you might think) deserve the rights and protections of the Constitution, or none of us. That includes the right not to be subjected to cruel and unusual punishment. And while the Bush administration would like to cram a few more angels to dance on the head of that pin by arguing about what is or is not "torture," there's no doubt or discussion that we have treated these detainees cruelly, against our own Constitution.

George W. Bush, his administration and his armies, failed to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution time and again. What is a fit punishment for such craven oath-breaking?