Who are we, the American people, really?

And that is the real tragedy. Good people who are so misled that they
simply stick their heads in the sand and ignore the suffering in the
world. Does that make them bad people? I say it makes us all
products of our time.
Those of us who believe there is hope for change for the better, need
to stay the course and be true to our beliefs.
And we need to remember that there are no guarantees.

Carl Jarvis

On 1/28/15, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@optonline.net> wrote:
> I've started reading Guantanamo Diary and the experience is somewhat
> shocking, not because any of this is new, but because it isn't. A good part
> of this book has been redacted by our government. What has been allowed to
> be published is horrifying, so one wonders what has been omitted. The
> author, a man from Moratania, hasn't written this diary to shock anyone.
> His
> sweet, gentle nature and his humor are evident, believe it or not,
> throughout his recounting of the horrors that our government caused to
> befall him. But this morning I read Carl's reassurances about all the good
> kind people whom he encounters during his work with elderly people. So I'm
> wondering how it is that we can have had all of the reports of our
> government's torture of prisoners, both official and unofficial, how we can
> have our government leaders cheerfully admitting to ordering the torture of
> prisoners, how we can have a publicized congressional summary of a report
> of
> CIA torture, and there are no mass demonstrations, no public uprising, no
> deluge of letters to editors decrying what is going on. This book that I'm
> reading, might even become a best seller. But torture is now acceptable.
> Yes, Progressives write articles and the articles are permitted to be
> printed. But that's because they have no impact on government policy and
> practise. Yes, many people believe that those being tortured are our
> enemies. The Germans came to believe that Jews were corrupting their
> society
> and their nation. The Nazis had their concentration camps. We have our
> black
> sites, located in distant lands and our concentration camp where
> experimentation on human beings and torture is carried out, on a piece of
> American territory close to our mainland. And all those kind, good hearted,
> generous American people, the ones that Carl referred to and the ones that
> our President talks about, apparently accept this status quo.
>
> Miriam
>
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