"We, as a country, are living a lie"

hard on the heels of my earlier Impeachment ... or accept that the United States is no longer a Republic governed by the rule of law post, steven d at booman tribune uses today's wapo story about yet another "reassignment" of a senior military legal officer, Air Force Col. Moe Davis, the chief prosecutor for the Guantánamo military commissions trials, as a springboard to put together a documented chronology of the numerous reassignments and outright firings that point to a profound dis-ease with the so-called legal process being imposed on detainees...

his summation...

It's a familiar pattern by now. Question the way the Bush administration wants these phony show trials for the Gitmo detainees to be stage managed and your ass is kicked to the curb. Swallow your pride, your honor and any sense of justice or morality you possess and you can continue your legal military career. But at what cost?

We are becoming the opposite of the Land of the Free. America no longer stands for truth and justice, it stands for torture and indefinite detentions. We no longer have the right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures, we are obligated to submit to the federal government keeping its all seeing electronic eye on us night and day. We can be denied the right to travel, if we end up on the government's mysterious "no fly" list. We can no longer peaceably assemble and dissent without being subject to mass arrests so that the President and his faction can party it up in New York City.

We, as a country, are living a lie. We are not a free country, and we are not the land of the brave. And that is the joint legacy of George Bush and all those who cowered before him after 9/11. And the few individuals who have risked their lives, or their careers and their reputations, by insisting on doing what is right rather than what the Bush administration demanded, are the exceptions that prove the rule.

he concludes with the famous kurt vonnegut quote from Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance With Death...

And so it goes.

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