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May 17, 2005
Constitution Desecrated, Does Anyone Care?
Ok, so, let me get this straight. Their defense is that they had a memo about how to protect the Quran, all the while they were also writing memos obliterating the Geneva conventions, authorizing torture, encouraging abuse, setting up procedures for “rendition,” voiding the constitution, right to habeas corpus and due process...
The three-page memorandum, dated Jan. 19, 2003, says that only Muslim chaplains and Muslim interpreters can handle the holy book, and only after putting on clean gloves in full view of detainees.
The detailed rules require U.S. Muslim personnel to use both hands when touching the Koran to signal "respect and reverence," and specify that the right hand be the primary one used to manipulate any part of the book "due to cultural associations with the left hand." The Koran should be treated like a "fragile piece of delicate art," it says.
I can almost see the memo. To all. This is the inform you that the constitution shall be treated as a “fragile piece of delicate art.” Not to be opened, read or otherwise damaged. Never take it out of its lockbox. Only talk about in in hushed tones. Never mind, don’t ever talk about it. And don’t even think about the Bill of Rights.
Posted by zeynep at May 17, 2005 05:06 PM