Revealing A Fundamental Truth

My job, he said. I don't care about it.

We looked at him, waiting for him to elaborate.

No, really, he said, sensing our curiosity. I'll do anything.

He made a pushing/pulling motion with his hands.

Pay me the same to mow the grass, and I will do it, he said.

From the look in his eyes and the way in which he held his head, he seemed to think that he had discovered (or at least revealed) some fundamental truth of the 21st century.

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Cole: Guantanamo, the Bill of Rights, and the Patriot Acts

Juan Cole on Guantanamo, the Bill of Rights, and the implications of the Patriot Acts:

Cole/Quran/Guantanamo: Terrorists are dirty criminals who should be tried, and if found guilty, put away for life. Terrorists are criminals. They are not non-human, and any attempt to create a category of human beings to whom the protections of the law do not apply is an attempt to undermine the Republic. It is a return of the Bill of Attainder, a feature of absolute monarchy that the Founding Fathers stood against. It is something to which even Rehnquist is opposed. ...

Guantanamo Prison should be closed because it was conceived as the beginning of the end of the American Republic.

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