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If you go to Senator Dick Durbin's website, you can find the full text of the speech he made about torture in American facilities.
The speech is true, and is not extreme -- it says, "look, something wrong is happening here, and we ought to acknowledge it and do something about it right now and not wait forty years like we did for the Japanese internment camps." It says we're better than the people who produced gulags and concentration camps.
And then he was attacked for using the words Nazi and gulag in the same paragraph as the United States, and everybody expected him to apologize, and it was reported that he apologized, but if you read it for yourself you will see that he didn't, really, and that's a damned good thing. What's wrong with the Democratic Party is that they don't stand up like he did, often.
Go read the speech, it was good, it was true, and people should be sending him support for telling the truth and we should be telling him never to apologize again.
Edited to be truer.
The speech is true, and is not extreme -- it says, "look, something wrong is happening here, and we ought to acknowledge it and do something about it right now and not wait forty years like we did for the Japanese internment camps." It says we're better than the people who produced gulags and concentration camps.
And then he was attacked for using the words Nazi and gulag in the same paragraph as the United States, and everybody expected him to apologize, and it was reported that he apologized, but if you read it for yourself you will see that he didn't, really, and that's a damned good thing. What's wrong with the Democratic Party is that they don't stand up like he did, often.
Go read the speech, it was good, it was true, and people should be sending him support for telling the truth and we should be telling him never to apologize again.
Edited to be truer.
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