Posted by zeugma on November 13, 2005, at 14:45:49
In reply to Re: Question about lil' jimi's 2 week block » verne, posted by zeugma on November 13, 2005, at 14:15:52
the crux of the issues debated on Politics and which resulted in blocks is simply that of honesty: were people systematically lied to? Are people still evading questions about torture and other matters, and are these evasions damaging America's moral standing? Are they also damaging from a strategic perspective? (If the latter, they raise serious issues of competency as well as of morality. Both are clearly necessary in operating a government that is to retain the trust of its people.)
The American Psychiatric Association has officially endorsed McCain's proposal to ban torture and forbidden any health professional from engaging in acts inconsistent with McCain's proposal.
I don't know how much more black and white it can get. If this board were in operation during the Watergate hearings, would discussion of Nixon's culpability be forbidden? If this board were in operation in 1933, would anyone predicting Hitler's coming atrocities be summarily blocked?
-z
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