Tuesday, September 16, 2014

an important insight

"... it's the habit of the American government to kind of say, okay, we made a mistake, it's just a one-time thing, we violated people's rights, it won't happen again, we'll put everything in check, and then they'll go back and a couple of years later new laws will come out, and those laws will justify whatever that behavior was. And then, from then on in, that's no longer a mistake, and the next time it happens it's something different, torture, say, for instance, you know, or enhanced interrogation. And at some point, that becomes--well, okay, that's legal."
--Eddie Conway, interviewed on "The Real News".
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=12383

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