Fair's guilt over torture is whole nation's guilt
Regarding the recent column about his role as an Iraq interrogator: Eric Fair, don't deceive yourself. You may get on with your life, but the memory of your failure to speak up when another human was being tortured in the name of our country will not go away.
Don't feel badly; the whole nation, including our Congress, courts and military, did not speak up or act to stop it. Doesn't it strike you as the ultimate farce that we are trying to export our constitutional form of government and moral backbone while at the same time destroying them at home?
Our state prison systems also indulge in torture. If you were reading newspapers a few years ago, you would have learned about Georgia beating shackled inmates and bashing their heads against a wall until it ran with blood.
A female prison officer made this torture public after she reasoned that, "If they can do this in our prisons, they can also do this in our homes." She understood and had the courage to speak up.
Dorothy Oliver
Greensboro
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