The shadow peanut gallery's been leaving comments here regarding Mike Arcuri's statement on HR6166 at last week's debate. Other bloggers who've long been open supporters of Ray Meier must be straining their keyboard, finger muscles and Internet connections in their frenzy to talk about that one answer.
I do have comments to write about the debate but they'll have to wait until I get the time to do it. But I want to respond to the comments left here.
And actually, it's one of Ray Meier's comment at the debate that is the base of my response. Ray's comment about wiretapping was that the "NSA was not listening in to [his] conversation with his sister in Cleveland."
No, they're not. And in all likelihood, this Badministration's not really caring about most of the commenters here either.
If anyone in this little corner of the blogesphere has any probability of getting the NSA's attention, being on a Badministration list, or being the target of a hate crime, it's me.
I'm Muslim. The President of the country I live in called for a crusade. Meier's who is running to represent me (so to speak) painted "the Muslim world" as terrorists. (Yea, he backpaddled pretty furiously to take the paint off, but in this day and age, if he didn't mean it, he wouldn't have said it.)
Do I think that this Badministration will continue to use torture and other inhumane treatment of people? Absolutely.
That's why I want Mike Arcuri to be my representative in Congress.
I do think HR6166 could be improved, but, at least in my reading of it, it didn't raise the fear that some of the posts attempted to raise. Read it for yourself here.
Maimun
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"I do think HR6166 could be improved, but, at least in my reading of it, it didn't raise the fear that some of the posts attempted to raise."
While I don't know what these posts said, the synopsis provided by attorney John Yoo (a proponent of the bill) this morning on the radio made it sound worth of great fear. Americans abroad who might be considered "enemy combatants" by leaders of the countries they are in should definitely fear being held under these rules. They decriminalize war crimes.
Eric Massa has provided strong moral leadership on this issue. He has standing to do so as a military man. Mike Arcuri also had standing, as an attorney and prosecutor, but he has disappointingly not demonstrated similar leadership.
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