Reply #69: Better Believe it, you shuld be commended for continuuing to speak

[truth2power]

to those of conscience, here. You have to be resolute, though, because you know the Harpies will descend on you relentlessly. It seems that there are an awful lot of individuals with an authoritian mindset these days. I don't understand it. Well, I do understand it, but prudence requires that I not comment.

I suppose in the interest of 'party over principle' I should not listen to what my conscience tells me. But I'll go with my conscience, thank you very much. No matter what else Obama has accomplished, his stance on human rights and due-process is a deal-breaker for me. End of story.

I'd encourage the reading of the comments section under this article over at Common Dreams. There's nothing there, at this point, that I can disagree with.

One poster offered this quote from Julian Assange, which I'd already printed out, awhile back, and posted near my computer:

"Try as I may I can not escape the sound of suffering. Perhaps as an old man I will accept suffering with insouciance. But not now; men in their prime, if they have convictions are tasked to act on them." -- Julian Assange, 2007 blog entry