tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-154495438763509967.post9113864077945377065..comments2024-01-28T06:24:50.005+00:00Comments on No Double Standards: What happens to the criminals who perpetrated USA torture?Martin Freedmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16952072422175870627noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-154495438763509967.post-20963082553172692322009-01-26T19:04:00.000+00:002009-01-26T19:04:00.000+00:00I agree that words alone will not do anything. How...I agree that words <I>alone</I> will not do anything. However movements and activism start with words. If nothing is said, nothing is done. I am being critical of Obama as well as both very pleased that he has replaced Bush and with what he has already done with respect to torture. I just want the expectations here to be the minimum not the maximum he would do.<BR/><BR/>As for left versus right I am dubious of both, certainly extreme left=extreme right as history has repeatedly indicated. I have yet to see an extreme solutions of either side work out in reality and am not holding my breath. (My left wing friends call me right wing, my right wing friends call me left wing, we should drop this whole tired one dimensional collapse of multi-dimensional political views).Martin Freedmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16952072422175870627noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-154495438763509967.post-32602216937325318052009-01-26T16:45:00.000+00:002009-01-26T16:45:00.000+00:00Barefoot is vocally quite critical of the current ...Barefoot is vocally quite critical of the current administration as indeed are most Communists. Indeed most of us far beyond the normal liberal criticism and touches on many things that are ignored by the left media. He is quite cynical because he knows that words will not do anything, not when you show you continuous support to them with your vote come hell or high water.<BR/><BR/>The only way to make anything happen, the only way anything has ever changed for the better, was through movements and activism from the masses. Words flow over politicians like hot air. Strikes & marches and insistent demand to change things do not.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-154495438763509967.post-61216501898966949312009-01-26T14:48:00.000+00:002009-01-26T14:48:00.000+00:00BarefootI quite agree in being dubious of the inte...Barefoot<BR/><BR/>I quite agree in being dubious of the intentions of whoever aspires or is in power but I do not limit this just to "capitalistic bourgeoisie" but any regime including any revolutionary one (whether communist or not). <BR/><BR/>Anyway it is up to us to say something and make politicians at least wonder about paying attention or not. If we remain quiet then they certainly will get away with it. Cynically dismissing any attempt - as you seem to be implying - can only help them carry on getting away with it.Martin Freedmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16952072422175870627noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-154495438763509967.post-2521671029821110952009-01-24T12:41:00.000+00:002009-01-24T12:41:00.000+00:00Obama will do nothing substantive or concrete abou...Obama will do nothing substantive or concrete about the previous administration's use of torture. Why should he? <I>All</I> factions of the bourgeoisie, including the faction that supports Obama, want legally unchecked executive power. Obama will <I>use</I> that power somewhat more humanely and more subtly than Bush, but the <I>real</I> political pressures he has to face -- the pressures of the bourgeoisie -- will limit his response to Bush's actions to simple verbal condemnation.Larry Hamelinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08788697573946266404noreply@blogger.com