http://jdallen.org/politics/leahy-on-the-detainee-treatment-act/ "To Bigotry No Sanction, To Persecution No Assistance" Wed, 31 Mar 2010 20:15:16 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://jdallen.org/politics/leahy-on-the-detainee-treatment-act/comment-page-1/#comment-1098 James Allen Thu, 28 Sep 2006 23:50:46 +0000 http://jdallen.org/politics/leahy-on-the-detainee-treatment-act/#comment-1098 I am no Christian, so I'll paraphrase this. Whatever we do to the weakest among us, we do to us all. Or as Martin Luther King Jr. said, "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." I am no Christian, so I’ll paraphrase this. Whatever we do to the weakest among us, we do to us all. Or as Martin Luther King Jr. said, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”

]]> http://jdallen.org/politics/leahy-on-the-detainee-treatment-act/comment-page-1/#comment-1096 twincats Thu, 28 Sep 2006 23:38:48 +0000 http://jdallen.org/politics/leahy-on-the-detainee-treatment-act/#comment-1096 We are only as righteous, just, and moral as our treatment of the most powerless in our 'care.' Who is more poweress than a person held without charges, without acess to redress? Doesn't matter wheter they are friend or foe, citizen or stranger; if they cannot be detained, tried and convicted according to what we have always considered just, then we have FAILED and we are no longer just, righteous or moral. We are only as righteous, just, and moral as our treatment of the most powerless in our ‘care.’ Who is more poweress than a person held without charges, without acess to redress? Doesn’t matter wheter they are friend or foe, citizen or stranger; if they cannot be detained, tried and convicted according to what we have always considered just, then we have FAILED and we are no longer just, righteous or moral.

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