Comments on: In Our Name http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/06/26/in-our-name/ Life. Liberty. Property. Defending individual freedom and liberty, one post at a time. Wed, 22 May 2013 18:26:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Joshua Holmes http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/06/26/in-our-name/#comment-30785 Joshua Holmes Wed, 27 Jun 2007 02:48:14 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/06/26/in-our-name/#comment-30785 Don’t get me wrong, I see the value in a centralized agency for gathering and evaluating intelligence on possible foreign threats

And if you think you can limit it to that, you’re a colossal fool.

]]> By: T F Stern http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/06/26/in-our-name/#comment-30782 T F Stern Wed, 27 Jun 2007 00:39:30 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/06/26/in-our-name/#comment-30782 I must have fallen off a turnip truck; does this mean we can’t trust our government 100%. I had to take my baseball cap off to cover my heart while whistling the Star Spangled Banner. lol from the dark side.

]]> By: UCrawford http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/06/26/in-our-name/#comment-30767 UCrawford Tue, 26 Jun 2007 22:27:53 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/06/26/in-our-name/#comment-30767 The Church Committee actually did a lot to react against the abuses by the CIA. In fact, as a result of the Senate’s investigation it was pretty much impossible for our intel services to provide information to police forces and vice versa, until 9/11 anyway (the inability to share data was one of the reasons some of the hijackers were able to slip through). While I’d argue that the Church Committee overreacted to what happened by placing some overly harsh restrictions on our intelligence services, I’d say that most of the committee’s actions were justified, and that many of the liberties Bush is attempting to take in circumventing those restrictions aren’t really doing us any favors…either in the current “War on Terror” or in our future.

As I see it, a society that believes it’s acceptable for our leader to basically legalize torture and deprive suspects of their rights, whether those tactics are applied to U.S. citizens or foreign detainees, is hardly a society that embodies the rule of law or the concept of individual liberty. The Bush administration’s done a lot to push us back towards the bad old days…and a large number of people seem more than happy to let him.

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