Friday, March 20, 2009

Learned Helplessness


In the past administration, the U.S. Government has been spying on the American people what should be done? Patrick Joseph Leahy, a Democratic senator from Vermont and current chairman of Judiciary committee, wrote in a recent article for TIME magazine “The Case For a Truth Commission”. He acknowledged the readers about findings by the senator frank church committee, testimony for over 800 witnesses and thousand of pages that disclose surveillance tactics and tools used against the public. With even going far into investigating domestic groups such as the NAACP, an established organization with 400,000 members. The tone of the article speaks to a broad audience when describing vividly the warrantless surveillance of Americans as “trading away the public’s rights as if they were written in sand, not stone”. Leahy used the example in the Uncovering of Abu Ghraib were torture memos were sent out and describing the Events of Bush-Cheney-Gonzales Justice department as the worst since Watergate. So after presenting the issue at hand, Leahy expresses rhapsodically how appointing a truth-finding panel can help America Move Forward. Having a variety of fair-minded groups to find the facts and share their knowledge and experiences without an “ax to grind”. He closes out his issue with the respective forbearance of the republican view as the people “Have a Right to know what the government has done with their names”.The presented issue over the truth commission and whether or not it should exist leads us to ask questions and have an input those that agree and the opposed. More notably Leahy asks for a process that could involve subpoena powers and he continued to quote Lincoln and his bicentennial “we must bind our wounds”, after President Obama turned away from the issue to salvage the nation, any type of extreme partisanship and debilitating divisions could affect the U.S. even more. There is much evidence of how the bush administration used The malice practices to investigate also recent news of videotapes that were destroyed showing the acts of torture and sadistic ways used against the detainees. At all cost the country will learn and use these events to avoid but should there be direct karma for bush’s break into the laws of torture and breaking the Geneva conventions? That is the key issue on Leahy behalf well most of America agreed. There is need to a course of action since USA Today/Gallup Show that over 60% of America wants an investigation for the doings of the last 8 years; Congress will continue to work with the new administration as we have already seen progress with the recent reports and have the system work for us not against us.

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