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Neeum Zawan wrote:
> What Wikileaks scandals represent a state of affairs that is worse now
> than when you were younger?
More like the response to it. When Nixon was called out, we went after the
President, not the newspapers. I don't remember people threatening Deep
Throat with being locked up in solitary without a trial, or being shipped
off to a foreign country military base to be tortured to death. Pinko
commies got blackballed, not disappeared into torture centers.
> Ditto the Gitmo thing. Trashing the rights of the "other" is part of US
> history.
It is still considered scandalous that Lincoln locked people up without
trial during the civil war. People are still bothered by the US locking up
people of Japanese descent during WW2 - we still recognise *that* as wrong.
And, face it, most people *are* outraged at Gitmo, at bankers trashing the
economy, at the "too big to fail" concept, etc etc etc. Yet it continues.
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
Serving Suggestion:
"Don't serve this any more. It's awful."
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