March 13, 2011

Disgusting

The Obama Administration has disappointed me in a lot of different ways, particularly in its cavalier attitude toward civil rights. It seems that the Administration looked at what Bush did and said "Hmm. Makes sense to me!" Well, no, Mr. President. Many of us voted for you thinking that Bush's civil rights policies made no sense whatsoever and that you agreed with us and would work to overturn them.

So when word surfaced that Bradley Manning, the guy accused (not convicted, mind you, just accused) of leaking documents to Wikileaks was incarcerated and subjected to less-than-humane treatment in the brig, it wasn't all that surprising. But still:

So, in Barack Obama's administration, it's perfectly acceptable to abuse an American citizen in detention who has been convicted of nothing by consigning him to 23-hour-a-day solitary confinement, barring him from exercising in his cell, punitively imposing "suicide watch" restrictions on him against the recommendations of brig psychiatrists, and subjecting him to prolonged, forced nudity designed to humiliate and degrade. But speaking out against that abuse is a firing offense. Good to know.
This appalls me. If it appalls you, you can tell the White House how you feel about it. I did.

Posted by Linkmeister at March 13, 2011 11:17 AM | TrackBack
Comments

So many things appall me these days, I'm having trouble keeping track of them.

Posted by: Madeleine Begun Kane at March 13, 2011 10:19 PM