One of the worst crimes under the white South African apartheid regime was the grossly unfair practice of detention without trial. People were detained, sometimes for years, without access to legal representation or the benefit of a court trial. The US government, rightly so, vociferously opposed this practice. But look, only a few years later, and the US government is guilty of exactly the same crime against humanity! So much for fairness, democracy, liberty and justice - the very foundation of the American consitution. Fear drives people inwards and to ever increasing acts of tyranny. That is why some wise one said that patriotism is the last bastion of the vicious. And ultimately, ...

One of the worst crimes under the white South African apartheid regime was the grossly unfair practice of detention without trial. People were detained, sometimes for years, without access to legal representation or the benefit of a court trial. The US government, rightly so, vociferously opposed this practice. But look, only a few years later, and the US government is guilty of exactly the same crime against humanity! So much for fairness, democracy, liberty and justice - the very foundation of the American consitution. Fear drives people inwards and to ever increasing acts of tyranny. That is why some wise one said that patriotism is the last bastion of the vicious. And ultimately, when reason and dialogue flee, all that's left is tyranny. And it takes a tyrant to conquer a tyrant. (Byron: "Must tyrants but by tyrants conquered be?")