For anyone who believes in the basic principles of the founding, the fact that these acts of torture are illegal -- felonies -- ought to end the discussion about whether they were justified. Full Story »
Posted by Derek Hawkins - via Glenn Greenwald, Digg
Greenwald, as usual, is on point and on fire. An important view and an important historical quote from a founder of the country.
An avidity to punish is always dangerous to liberty. It leads men to stretch, to misinterpret, and to misapply even the best of laws. He that would make his own liberty ... More »
This superb piece is most definitely quality journalism. Any journalist with the savvy and energy to research historical writings and then show in writing how they contradict and refute the claims of modern folk who claim to have read or studied them, but obviously haven't is practicing quality journalism, in my estimation. This piece could easily come with the sub-title, "folks who live in glass houses...".
There are far too few journalists out there who are showing how folks like Beck, Limbaugh, and now King, glibly and pompously present themselves as authorities on the Founding Fathers when clearly they are not. I suspect that the Fathers spend most of their time spinning in their graves.
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