state terror by US Democrats

I still feel the heavy weight of sorrow about Schumer and Feinstein voting for the appointment of the US Attorney General who will not repudiate near death drowning as a means of torture. We have become a country where the basic human instincts of compassion are not cultivated but abandoned.
The democrats in the Senate can no longer criticize the Bush administration for its attack on our constitutional rights and its endorsement of human torture.
Amy Goodman devoted part of her program, “Democracy now,” to this issue and her guest, Naomi Klein (“Shock Doctrine”) was eloquent in her analysis of this erosion in democracy.
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