Interrogators threatened to send him to Egypt or Saudi Arabia, the lawsuit said, “where, they told him, he would be tortured and sodomized and where his wife would be raped in front of him.”
NYTimes June 12, 2007, Judges Say U.S. Can’t Hold Man As ‘Combatant’By ADAM LIPTAK
Want to know what makes me, a patriot, a Constitutionalist, ashamed? That this sort of thing can even be conceived, much less carried out…and sanctioned by my America. My America has turned into “his Amerika” — a Little Tyrant’s Personal Dictatorship.
I’m ashamed to be an American — ASHAMED. …No. That’s not quite right. Americans are all right, no worse and sometimes a lot better than people from other cultures and countries. However, I am ashamed of some Americans — Bush and Cheney, Rumsfeld and Rove, and everyone who enabled them. I’m certainly embarrassed that Americans have allowed our country’s most precious foundations to be abrogated on the insolent, logically erroneous, petulantly willful demands of an administration that used 911 as a personal stage to undermine what made us the greatest nation ever conceived by man — the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
Imagine a country that denies the right of Habeas Corpus. That’s our America. I shuddered. The Patriot Act? I was in shock that Congress sanctioned this. Preemptive war? Aghast. And “We, the People” allowed this, did nothing to stop it.
This is NOT my America. Be ashamed.