We Americans Really Ought To Be Ashamed

[babsbunny]

We Americans really ought to be ashamed
http://www.sptimes.com/2006/10/08/Columns/We_Americans_really_o.shtml

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By ROBYN E. BLUMNER, Times Perspective Columnist
Published October 8, 2006

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Did you hear that click, like the turning of a dial, auguring a new America?

It happened on Sept. 29 at 2:47 p.m. That was the seismic minute that Congress passed the Military Commissions Act and formally granted President Bush royal powers he had been unilaterally arrogating. The historic action may one day be remembered as the moment the great American experiment in liberty ended. It was a good run.

[Solly Mack]

1. Yes, we should be

and I am

[htuttle]

2. “A Republic, if you can keep it.”

Whoops. Sorry, Ben.

[The Backlash Cometh]

3. Well, look at the bright side. Now that we don't have any more freedoms,

our enemies don't have any reason to hate us, anymore. Brilliant man, that George Bush. Let's just pack up the war machine and go home.

[progressoid]

4. I've been ashamed for 6 years now,

[GeorgeGist]

5. Count me out of this...

'We Americans' nonsense.

[DavidDvorkin]

6. Exactly

I'm only ashamed of my own misdeeds or of the misdeeds of others that I had some hand in.