What does the assassination of Osama Bin Laden have in common with Guantanamo Bay?

[Demeter]

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28014.htm

They're both intended to send a message that the United States has sunk deeper into savagery and abandoned any commitment to conventional norms of behavior. That's the message, and we hear it "loud and clear".

We don't need our Harvard-educated president to crow about his latest gangland "hit" to know that America has turned into a moral swamp. That's obvious in every area of policy, foreign and domestic. It's just that certain incidents draw more attention than others, like when a drone incinerates a home full of women and children in the Pakistani outback or when F-16s reduce a city of 300,000 (Falluja) to rubble leaving behind a legacy of birth defects, cancer and grinding poverty. These are the real "headline grabbers", like shrugging off the sovereign rights of an ally, invading their airspace, and deploying special ops to conduct a Rambo-style massacre in a civilian section of town.

Booyah. You go America! U-S-A, U-S-A, U-S-A.

Everyone knows the rules don't apply to America. How could they not know? In Libya, the US is supporting a gaggle of fundamentalist crackpots invoking the thinnest rationale of all time, that the leader of the nation (Gaddafi) does not have the right to put down an armed rebellion against the state. What kind of nonsense is that?

But it doesn't matter, because the US creates the rules on-the-fly; just makes it up as they go along. So, when Bin Laden gets whacked in the latest bloody incident of military gangsterism, no one utters a peep of protest, because everyone knows that the US owns the world and the rest of us are just guests...

[RC]

1. +10000

We have to stop being the worlds worst terrorists.

[frebrd]

2. K&R!! n/t

[mountainlion55]

3. Thirty years

of corporate indoctrination and here we are acting like any other thug empire history has known.I remember walking down the hall in 3rd grade and they said you have to go home. President Kennedy has been killed. The day innocence died.:smoke:

[OwnedByFerrets]

4. Wow, that was some deep shit. And all very uncomfortably true.

Rules are for the rest of the world. OUR rules.
If there was an armed rebellion in Texas, the STATE, backed by the US military would PUT IT DOWN. If it happens in another country, it's different.

[Demeter]

5. An inconvenient and uncomfortable truth

not to mention trying to sort out spin, lies, and damned lies in the "official" reports.