Posted on Tuesday, May 12, 2009 1:13 AM
Glenn Greenwald heeft vandaag in een post-scriptum bij
een stuk over journalisten die door de Verenigde Staten zonder vorm van proces opgesloten worden een perfecte illustratie van hoe ons geloof in onze vrijheid kan omslaan in repressieve ideologie, en van de verraderlijkheid van de bij die ideologie horende kretologie:
Lake goes on to suggest that even if the journalists we imprisoned weren't guilty, it's still different when we do it, because we're the U.S. and they're Iran. And there is a perfect distillation of moral relativism: the rightness of an act is determined not by the act itself, but by who is doing it ("when I do X, it's good; when you do it, it's evil"). It also perfectly illustrates what is, as I noted on Friday, "the single most predominant fact shaping our political and media discourse: everything is different, and better, when we do it."
Why do they hate us? For our freedoms.