The Assault on America’s Values

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The Assault on America’s Values
November 7th, 2005

The Bush administration is waging an assault on America’s values. That’s not news to most of us, however more and more everyday, be are finally start to read about this in the MSM. In an LA Times Editorial today, Tortured justifications, the Times says, “THE TERRORIST ATTACKS OF 9/11 killed nearly 3,000 Americans. With its response to those attacks, the Bush administration threatens the very idea of America.”

The administration’s attempt to exempt the CIA from a proposed law barring cruel and degrading treatment of prisoners in U.S. custody is the latest instance of an assault on this country’s values that began soon after 9/11. In some ways, such chiseling away of core American beliefs is more damaging than any terrorist attack, because it comes from within.

Last week’s disclosure by the Washington Post that the CIA runs secret prisons in several Eastern European nations — sites where men can disappear indefinitely without charges or legal protection — provides more evidence that our nation’s leaders are mocking our ideals.

Bush spent some time today pushing his anti-terror efforts, and when asked whether he agreed with Cheney “that the CIA should be exempt from legislation to ban torture, Bush did not answer directly. Nor did he confirm the existence of the secret prisons. Instead, he launched into a strong defense of the U.S. war on terrorism.”

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