Lawyers Should be Indicted (Re: [lbo-talk] Doug Henwood profile

Dennis Redmond dredmond at efn.org
Wed Jun 2 10:57:13 PDT 2004



> Frankly, I find the whole left focus on the civil liberties of the guilty
> misguided

Guilty of what? Hundreds of thousands of prisoners are junkies, who need medical treatment, not police batons.

The issue of justice, though, does have some relevance to the Terror War. I'm sure Zizek has already said this, somewhere, but the real shock of Abu Ghraib wasn't the actual violence. It was the distorted, unconscious cognition that Jailhouse USA has been torturing, raping, and brutalizing millions of prisoners in similar fashion for decades. Domestic policy equals foreign policy in the Land of Mordor. The only thing that gives me some hope is that, to speak allegorically, Frodo is closing in on Mt. Doom...

-- DRR



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