Bush and Richard Cheney come to mind – don’t appear so self-confident or powerful anymore. Officials who appeared so smug fifteen years ago – George W. Now modern communications give us a seat at the fifty-yard line, for a modern version of disintegration in a great power’s capital.
I always kind of wondered what Rome, the city was like as its power slipped away. You can learn more at these sites:ĭavid Frum has two good articles in the Atlantic today. Support these efforts to help members of our communities. To avoid arrest, immigrants essentially have to go underground. If they don’t, they go to a detention center, where they wait for deportation. An intensified campaign against so-called illegals leads officials from Immigration and Customs Enforcement to check up on people with foreign names to see if they have the right papers. The act is modest in its aims, to protect vulnerable people from mistreatment because of their immigration status, but I see it as a call to civil resistance.Īctive groups ask local officials not to cooperate with federal immigration officials. The main idea behind this legislation is non-cooperation with federal authorities when they undertake extralegal immigration enforcement activities. I have a friend who testified today at a hearing for Massachusetts’ Safe Communities Act. Manning set the example that made the national security state vulnerable. With no Manning and Snowden, the national security state cruises along, conducting its business extralegally, as it likes to do. Without Chelsea Manning, we have no Edward Snowden. Manning does not suggest it, but perhaps the American people owe her an apology, and an expression of gratitude besides. That the national security state made an example of her shows how much it feels threatened by people with courage to expose the truth about its activities. She was clear about her reasons for releasing the documents at the time she did it, and she stands by those reasons now. She assumed responsibility for her action, but she had nothing to apologize for.
Let’s show some remorse here! Don’t you want to apologize to the American people for betraying their trust in you? Isn’t that why you went to prison in the first place? The reporters press their usual invitation to admit mistakes and express regret. She’s three weeks out of prison after serving seven years, much of it in solitary.
Yesterday, they asked Chelsea Manning if she didn’t want to apologize for the biggest document dump in the nation’s history. Apparently apologies are newsworthy, so they fish for them, badger for them: “Don’t you think you owe the American people…?” Often the unfortunate target of their questions gives them what they want. They ask people for apologies every chance they have.
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