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Stanley Milgram's notorious psychology experiments in the early Sixties teach us that most people will do terrible things if they believe that they're acting under legitimate orders. George W Bush has been running a similar experiment at Guantánamo. Reading the story of one reservist's protest ("Military Insider Becomes Critic of Hearings at Guantánamo") is sickening not because of the terrible abuses of justice that are clearly routine at the off-campus site, but because of the readiness of so many military jerks to pop up and defend the program. There seems to be nothing that the Go Along To Get Along brass won't say, as long as that's what the professor in the White House wants.
My problem with freedom, in a nutshell: "Fatalities are, above all, a reflection of the type of dog that is popular at a given time among people who want to own an aggressive status symbol." (From Ian Urbina's "States Try to Weigh Safety With Dog Owners's Rights."
