POSTED RESPONSE TO AN EDITORIAL IN TORONTO'S GLOBE AND MAIL
"Latest U.S.
drone operation in Pakistan should be judged a success"
Surely, the words of an ethical and moral bankrupt.
A target or targets - uncharged and untried - is
assassinated by a buzz-cut thug at a computer console.
In the process, a host of others, all innocents for certain,
are murdered, and the cretin writing this editorial says it should be judged a
success.
Have you lost all sense of values?
If we all nod and accept this absolutely criminal behavior
by a great power, we will lose all claims to a free society which has laws and
is organized to honor human rights.
If you do not live by the rule of the law, you are not a
whit better than the junta generals who used to kidnap people off the streets
of South America and fly them out over the ocean to throw out their drugged
bodies.
They "disappeared" thousands in that fashion, and
it is certain that the horrible governments committing such crimes believed
they were every bit as justified as America in getting rid of people working
against their interests.
Now, the apologists for Israel's brutal excesses always
support this kind of thing, and indeed Israel is the very model for this
behavior. The word "terroriist" is used like a magic word to make any
inhuman act perfectly okay.
It is one thing for an irresponsible state like Israel to
behave this unacceptable way, but it quite another for the world's mightiest
nation to be reduced to the same behavior.
We are only protected by rule of law from having the violent
barbarians and psychopaths of the world governing. If you abandon rule of law,
you have abandoned civilization.
