Is America Still a Nation of Laws?
The Department of Justice claimed that it:
reviewed the [Senate intelligence] committee’s full report [on torture] and did not find any new information that they had not previously considered in reaching their determination [not to prosecute anyone for torture].
But Huffington Post reports today:
DOJ has also declined to indicate whether anyone at the department has actually read the intelligence committee’s full report, which is 6,900 pages long and remains mostly classified. In court filings in January, the government indicated that no one at DOJ had opened the department’s copy of the completed report, raising questions as to how, exactly, it had reached a decision not to prosecute the officials named in the study.
Lest you think this is ancient history, please note that the top dogs have said that America will torture again … unless those who authorized the torture program are prosecuted.
And it’s not just something that affects foreigners. Torture – and the other unlawful and totally ineffective war on terror tactics have come home to hurt Americans.
And remember that the highest law of the land demands that everyone who authorized torture – no matter how high and mighty – be prosecuted.
And no … it’s not too late to prosecute them.
Is America still a nation of laws?
No. We’re obviously no longer a nation of laws. The laws exist on paper, just as your Bill of Rights does, but the arbitrary, or selective enforcement of laws is only a tool of tyranny, not justice.
When a cop or a king decides that “we’re going to enforce the law against these people, but not those people”, you don’t have law. You have a dictator deciding who should be tortured, imprisoned, and enslaved.
Without equal justice, there is NO justice, and that’s the significance of the blindfold on the statue of the woman who holds the “scales of justice”. (you’ve probably seen her in front of many court houses)