Reply #64: The true "cognitive dissonance" of the Left is in our grossly mistaken...

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assumption that what we ourselves know or believe is common knowledge or belief among in Americans in general. I am exceptionally well informed about most current events and I would know very little about the alleged content of the second set of photos and tapes did I not (1) belong to the ACLU and (2) read DU daily. At least in my geographical area, the corporate media has been nearly silent on this matter, and there has not been one word of Hersh's extremely troubling allegations of child rape; since I live on a seacoast and therefore amidst so-called "civilization," I suspect the news blackout is far more complete throughout the American interior. Furthermore, there is also the fact (3) that the huge cry-wolf uproar over the mere harassment illustrated in the first set of photographs -- and flame away, that is ALL it is -- has in the eyes of most Americans thoroughly discredited the critics of the administration's prisoner-treatment, particularly when the activities thus far illustrated are compared to real Jihadist atrocities like sawing heads off living victims. (The moral equivalence game played by some at our end of the political spectrum -- claiming that making a Muslim wear women's panties on his head is every bit as much an atrocity as a Jihadist sawing through a screaming human's throat -- is not only absurd but infuriating.) Bottom line, I fully understand the postal customer's reaction: given the givens, it is absolutely predictable.

That said, if Hersh is right (and having witnessed this administration's viciousness in other realms, I surely fear Hersh IS right) the reasons behind the administration's illegal defiance are suddenly clear: we are not only talking about war crimes and unequivocal grounds for impeachment, but a probable outpouring of public rage that may have no precedent in U.S. history since the years leading up to the Civil War.

Worse still, in the administration's very defiance we are also -- again if Hersh is right -- moving ever closer to that dread point at which a (presumably) elected executive slides down the slippery slope of illegal activity into a defacto coup.