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February 09, 2007
Forced Disappearances are bad...
Even without reference to the holocaust, we know that the NAZIs were bad because they "disappeared" people...
Even without reference to the Ukraine famine, we know the Soviets were bad because they "disappeared" people...
The hallmark of a modern society gone wrong, the thing that tells us absolutely that a nation is in serious trouble, is when that nation starts taking its citizens into custody and not admitting to it...
Signing a treaty that we won't do that ought to be a no brainer-- the sort of pro forma exercise we do to once again affirm our commitment to basic human rights...
When we refuse to sign such a treaty, it's a chilling sign...
Posted by Andrew at February 9, 2007 07:45 PM