"I just saw something...totally inappropriate. No mic on and no record being kept. But I think as we are lecturing foreign governments about the conduct of their behavior with regard to opposition -- when I see the behavior I saw here today as an American -- I'm really troubled about what kind of lesson this is going to teach to other countries in the world about how they ought to conduct an open society that allows for an opposition with rights. I'm sorry, I'm very offended."
James Zogby of the Arab American Institute, A witness at the Patriot Act hearings on the handling of the event
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Yup.
The shame of being who we are (and saying/pretending otherwise) before the world and before G-d is most palpable to me.
It's just our perverse and small misfortune to be defiling ourselves, but to be and to have been lecturing and posturing before the other nations sickens me.
Keep telling it Michael, but don't lose heart!
- mason
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