Target rich environment

Gosh, where to start? Now we read that some of the people being held at Guantanamo are innocent. I remember ranting about this years ago, during the 2004 2006 election frenzy, when we were subjected to all those "terrorists have no rights" commercials.

Terrorists have no rights? How about innocent civilians? Oh, but I can hear the argument, now. "Wrong place; wrong time. You must be guilty of something." Put that with the old adage, "if you're not doing anything wrong, you have nothing to worry about." You can see how hollow that all sounds. It's been very clear to me for a long time that this problem, among many, is the reason we have so many laws to protect our rights under the law. We're already mired deeply in the morass of abuse of police power. When it's illegal to videotape the police, and when news reporters are no longer hanging around asking questions, who will oversee their actions? It has nothing to do with whether you're innocent, or not, but whether some cop doesn't like you.

It's very sad.