Comments on: Why Didn’t You Force Dick Cheney To Back Down? http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/2009/06/07/why-didnt-you-force-dick-cheney-to-back-down/ Wed, 05 Jan 2011 21:59:36 -0600 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: chiasmus http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/2009/06/07/why-didnt-you-force-dick-cheney-to-back-down/#comment-10754 chiasmus Mon, 08 Jun 2009 08:23:40 +0000 http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/2009/06/07/why-didnt-you-force-dick-cheney-to-back-down/#comment-10754 <p>I’m not sure what you’re after here. Why are we supposed to feel sorry for this guy? If you’re part of a lawless and inhuman regime, then you’re, well…part of it. “Apolitical civil servant” or not. And if you’re willing to be “apolitical” while the president shreds the constitution and human decency, then you deserve what you get when human beings get back in charge. </p> <p>If he knew about the torture program, then he absolutely deserves the treatment he’s getting. The fact that he didn’t personally have the authority to end the torture doesn’t change that. The fact that he’s getting punished while the higher-ups are getting away with it doesn’t change it either. Nor does the fact that the politicians who helped do him have blood on their hands as well.</p> <p>Regardless of all of the inequities and hypocrisies involved, I think it’s really important for civil servants to come to understand that participating in something like the Bush regime will end their careers. Otherwise, it’ll just happen again.</p> I’m not sure what you’re after here. Why are we supposed to feel sorry for this guy? If you’re part of a lawless and inhuman regime, then you’re, well…part of it. “Apolitical civil servant” or not. And if you’re willing to be “apolitical” while the president shreds the constitution and human decency, then you deserve what you get when human beings get back in charge.

If he knew about the torture program, then he absolutely deserves the treatment he’s getting. The fact that he didn’t personally have the authority to end the torture doesn’t change that. The fact that he’s getting punished while the higher-ups are getting away with it doesn’t change it either. Nor does the fact that the politicians who helped do him have blood on their hands as well.

Regardless of all of the inequities and hypocrisies involved, I think it’s really important for civil servants to come to understand that participating in something like the Bush regime will end their careers. Otherwise, it’ll just happen again.

]]> By: Endymion http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/2009/06/07/why-didnt-you-force-dick-cheney-to-back-down/#comment-10746 Endymion Sun, 07 Jun 2009 21:10:04 +0000 http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/2009/06/07/why-didnt-you-force-dick-cheney-to-back-down/#comment-10746 <p>Sounds like Mudd needs a union. Being forced to accept responsibility for a supervisor’s malfeasance as a precondition for advancement is pretty strong grounds for a grievance.</p> Sounds like Mudd needs a union. Being forced to accept responsibility for a supervisor’s malfeasance as a precondition for advancement is pretty strong grounds for a grievance.

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