Amen to Traci, more on Gonzales

Traci is absolutely right. There was an op ed in the Times the other day that basically said when Gonzales gets confirmed, we'll all, as citizens, personally own torture. The only way to keep that from being the case is to raise a loud enough minority voice not to be morally culpable as a whole, and to be able to demonstrate to the rest of the world that we actively protested such a decision. I wrote to my Senators. Please write to yours.

In the mean time, there are some great pieces on this out today. My daily reading list includes the Post and Times, both of which have opinion and editorial pieces. Indeed, it's about 50% of the stuff on the Times' opinion page. Their editorial is a must-read, I think. Mr. Gonzales has made an admirable climb in life, but his testimony is an object-lesson in refusing to accept responsibility on this subject, and in refusing to denounce a practice that, come on, really, pretty much the whole civilized planet denounced decades ago. We must not accept this as a country. Rejecting torture, and any toleration of it, has to be fundamental to a democratic society.