SADDAM'S HANGING VERDICT IS ILLEGAL AND UNJUST

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" Let no man think we can deny civil liberty to others and retain it for ourselves. When zealous agents of the Government arrest suspected "radicals" without warrant, hold them without prompt trial, deny them access to counsel and admission of bail....we have shorn the Bill of Rights of its sanctity..." -- Robert M. Lafollette, Sr. (1855-1925) U.S. Senator - Source: The Progressive, March 1920

Am I the only online columnist who recognizes the truth of what Human Rights Watch said yesterday ~

" The Iraqi government should not implement the death sentence against Saddam Hussein, which was imposed after a deeply flawed trial for crimes against humanity."

How can we deny civil liberty to others and retain it for ourselves ?

Has our light of liberty and justice gone completely out ?

Have we forgotten the words of Carl Sandburg ?

" For we know when a nation goes down and never comes back, when a society or civilization perishes, one condition may always be found ~ they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what brought them along."

Are we now going to compound our illegal preemptive attack and occupation of Iraq, where we set up and implemented a U.S. controlled coalition government, where we stage managed a flawed election and judicial system and where we now have condoned the hanging of this sovereign country's leader after a mock U.S. managed monkey trial ?

All of this so that George W Bush, in an act of institutionalized revenge, can claim a pyrrhic victory while Baghdad roils in a brutal civil war ~ which he instigated.

Have we gone mad ?

Have we, as a nation, completely lost our moral bearings ?

I, for one, refuse to let a sense of false patriotism for an unjust war dilute my sense of fair play and civil liberty ~ and stand proudly with Human Watch in demanding a reversal of the decision to execute Saddam Hussein ~ for the reasons listed below .

Who else will pick up this cry for fairness and civil liberty ?

Allen L Roland
http://blogs.salon.com/0002255/2006/12/28.html

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