once more with feeling...,,Rep. Nadler: Investigate torture or face road to ‘tyranny’

[babsbunny]

http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0713/rep-nadler-investigate-torture-face-road-tyranny/

By Sahil Kapur
Tuesday, July 13th, 2010 -- 12:51 pm

WASHINGTON – A New York Democrat argued that failing to prosecute former Bush administration officials complicit in the use of torture would create a dangerous precedent and place America on a path to "tyranny."

In an interview with Raw Story, Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) invoked a "supremacy of laws" when critiquing President Barack Obama’s decision to "look forward and not backwards" on his predecessor’s abuses of power.

"Those who misuse government power to break the law and subject people to improper pressure or torture ought to be prosecuted," said Nadler, chairman of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties. "That’s why we have laws."

[RandomThoughts]

1. That is why we are suppose to have laws.

If they are not enforced with equality, we do not have laws.

[katandmoon]

2. Obama's DOJ can't prosecute Bush/Cheney when Obama is doing exactly what they did.

[librechik]

3. kick for prosecuting everyone, regardless of their position and power

who dared to drag our good name in the mud by breaking a 200+ year promise and torturing
our prisoners.

[mod mom]

4. There was a time when I thought once the Dems got into power there would be prosecutions

for obvious crimes but heck, they didn't even do anything to correct our fraudulent election system which impacts them directly so prosecute for crimes? Unfortunately it's not going to happen. :mad:

[librechik]

5. they didn't even float a trial balloon.

:cry: