I got incredibly angry on the way home from work today. <\/p>\n
I was listining to NPR, and there was an interview<\/a> with Maher Arar, a Canadian engineer who was sent to the U.S. by Canada, then we sent him to Syria. In Syria he was imprisioned in a small underground cell and periodically tortured for a year. All of this took place because of allegations that he had terrorist ties, which turned out to be untrue.<\/p>\n You hear about secret prisons, you see our government trying to “clarify” the Geneva Convention<\/a> (What exactly does “shall in all circumstances be treated humanely” mean? It’s so vague.), and then you hear the first hand account of a man who was taken from his wife and children, thrown in a hole and tortured for a year. What have you been doing for the past 12 months? Your country has turned into a police state, what are you doing now?<\/p>\n Well, what I did was come home, grumble to the Lovely Wife a bit, have a couple of beers and watch the two hour season premiere of America’s Next Top Model<\/a>. My favorite so far is Michelle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I got incredibly angry on the way home from work today. I was listining to NPR, and there was an interview with Maher Arar, a Canadian engineer who was sent to the U.S. by Canada, then we sent him to … Continue reading