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This is an excerpt from a New York Times editorial. What is happening to America is real, scary, sickening and shocking. The response from the public (even members of my own family & people I know) has been terrifying because it is complacency, turning the other eye, that allowed fascism to grow and fester in Europe in my father’s time. It didn’t happen then over night…it was a slow insidious process that seeped into every aspect of life. (and death) This new form of Imperialism & Fascism has ruined goodwill for us around the planet and threatened everything we’ve known about this “experiment” we call democracy. Everything this administration is doing they are doing in our name. Silence = consent. They hooked some of my family members using “patriotism & religion” and cloaking an evil ambition in dogma and political rhetoric. I don’t know how we get out of this but I do know I can not be silent in my outrage. -Val

Earlier this month, the Council of Europe, a 46-nation human rights group, provided new, persuasive evidence of secret American prisons in Eastern Europe where prisoners were kept naked in cramped cells, subjected to hot or freezing blasts of air and subjected to water-boarding, or simulated drowning. American rights groups released a list of 39 men they say disappeared into secret prisons.

Incredibly, the lies and secrecy shrouding this administration are not enough for Mr. Rizzo. Sounding an awful lot like Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney, he told the senators, “Far too many people know far too much.”

Governments have to keep secrets. But this administration has grossly abused that trust, routinely using claims of national security to hide policies that are immoral and almost certainly illegal, to avoid embarrassment, and to pursue Mr. Bush’s dreams of an imperial presidency.
Read the whole editorial here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/24/opinion/24sun1.html?em&ex=1182916800&en=93b31889bbd53b22&ei=5087%0A

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