Our Constitution and our founding principles are inclusive, not exclusive, and that includes terrorists

i've been remiss in not posting very much from glenn greenwald lately... no surprise to anyone, he's been very vocal and articulate, in his customary fashion, on the torture debate... his salon column from tuesday is a brilliantly rational argument for accountability, the rule of law, and a return to the principles our founders...

here's the money graf...

The Right today argues that condemning torture is wrong because the people who were tortured were just Terrorists -- barely human -- and they deserve no defense, not even the force of law. Thomas Paine argued as a first principle that those devoted to liberty "must guard even his enemy from oppression." Could the contrast be any more stark?

glenn has consistently been one of the most passionate, well-grounded defenders of the founding principles and constitutional guarantees of anyone in the punditocracy... i've also noticed a gradual increase in his stridency over the past years, again no surprise given the gravity of the issues we're seeing out there...

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