Cockroaches Fear Light

See Scott Horton on the GOP attempt to blackmail the Obama adminstration into burying the Bush torture memos by threatening to filibuster unrelated appointments. (H/t Calchala over at Daily Kos.)

There is, of course, only one reason why GOP senators would be so eager to make sure that the Bush era descent into the realms inhabited by the Roman legionaries at work at Golgotha.  Gulag territory never sees the light of public knowledge.  It would both create a permanent stain on the party (and the nation) and it would constrain the ability of the next generation of evil to make use of the same justifications.

Which is, of course, the reason that publishing these memos is so important.  Cockroaches scurry from the light.

This is, of course, about as far as the theme of the blog I intended and still aim to write.  But I was long ago told that there is a tradition in some synagogues that if there were a matter of surpassing importance to the community it was acceptable to  stand up in the middle of Sabbath services and demand that the Torah not be read until the issue was discussed.  I offer this pos in that vein.

So consider this just a short encouragement to action.  I’m calling my Senators and leaving a note at Whitehouse.gov to urge them all to push back, hard, on this moral bankruptcy.  Feel free to do the same, or write a note below with better ideas.

Image:  William Blake “A Negro Hung Alive by the Ribs to a Gallows” illustration for Captain John Stedman, 1796.

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