Reply #53: Extrajudicial murder is a sign of a despotic regime [View All]

[dpbrown]

And now we've proven that we're just like them.

As to the murder of Saddam Hussein's sons and grandson, it seems to me as if we learned from the PNAC neocon warmongers that when a nation tortures and murders its political enemies instead of according them justice and a trial, that justifies the invasion of the country and the deposing of its leadership. As such, he's invited *more* extra-national attacks on our country, either by nation-states or by independent actors - making us even *more* unsafe, not that he gives a rat's ass about our safety.

Bush's insistence on murder, whether for revenge or for taking care of loose ends, instead of ensuring that even the most allegedly wicked people get a fair trial, puts him in the same throne that we were supposed to hate President Hussein for. Because none of the weird stories surrounding the Hussein brothers ever had to stand up in court, this opens up (even more than was already opened by the "Anti-christ Administration") the potential for *anyone* to become a target of a concerted campaign of lies and innuendo, leading to a lynching in the public opinion, and a nonjudicial execution of sentence by the military or some other arm of the executive branch.

Hamdi and Padilla are already citizens who have been stripped of their rights by this method of guilt by innuendo. The British and Australians held at Guantanamo who are threatened with a nonjudicial death sentence if they refuse to confess should remind everyone of the bizarre "Inquisition" nature of this twisted and perverse, pathetic excuse for an administration the neocons have spawned (everyone should consider stories we've all heard of "witches" who were proven innocent by drowning or being crushed by stones - if they'd have survived, they'd have been supernatural, and hence would have been burned as a witch). Bush's "execution without trial" means of eliminating competition in Iraq to the continued occupation and annexation of Iraq and its resources is only one example, therefore, of the total lawless nature of his continued dictatorial overthrow of justice, liberty, and freedom in our nation and the rest of the world.

Dan Brown
Saint Paul, Minnesota