What's getting to me about the Foley thing

[nancylebov]

As bad things go, what Foley did was only fair-to-middling bad. As a result of it, political careers will be ended and elections will probably be affected. There might be criminal charges.

At the same time, the US government has been torturing people, sometimes to death. It's quite plausible that this is still going on, what with all those prisoners being held in secret. A law has been passed making it legal to hold prisoners indefinitely in secret. This has not had nearly as much political effect as the Foley scandal, and the legitimizing of torture doesn't seem to be a big issue in the upcoming election.

I begin to suspect that I am surrounded by crazy people.

Comments

[pocketnaomi.livejournal.com]

There is starting to be evidence that what Foley did wasn't confined to email; it included physical molestation. I don't consider that "only middling bad." And as far as methods for getting rid of the folks what passed the indefinite-internment bill go, I will take what I can get.

[nancylebov.livejournal.com]

I'm going to address the "fair-to-middling bad" thing later. Meanwhile, I'll just say that I'm glad to have any reasonably ethical leverage against the bad guys--it just gets to me that the leverage doesn't have to do with their major publically known badness.

[pocketnaomi.livejournal.com]

Understandable. It would probably get to me too if I weren't having so much fun watching them squirm to care what was causing it. :)