As more is revealed on the secret warrantless wiretaps and other surveillance of American citizens that President George W. Bush authorized illegally, supposedly to fullfill his “duty” to “keep Americans safe from the terrorists” this quote comes to mind:
When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.
-George Bernard Shaw (1856 – 1950)
We should all be ashamed we let those small men do such great damage.
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Cross-posted to Random Fate and The Moderate Voice.
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