Is Barack Obama Interested In Social Justice?

Dear Readers:

Being busy with the start of the new semester and all, I haven’t had a chance to focus on the blog.

So, while I’m thinking about my next topic, which I think will be on the subject of body modification as it relates to BIID, I thought I might post some arresting images, as well as some excerpts from a Paul Krugman op-ed piece in the New York Times.

I include these excerpts as a way of posing the same question Krugman’s opinion asks: are we going to let these gangster thugs who’ve terrorized national and world civil order for the last eight years get away with it?

Peace – Randy

PS: McGee’s back home.

Forgive and Forget?

By PAUL KRUGMAN

Last Sunday President-elect Barack Obama was asked whether he would seek an investigation of possible crimes by the Bush administration. “I don’t believe that anybody is above the law,” he responded, but “we need to look forward as opposed to looking backwards.”

I’m sorry, but if we don’t have an inquest into what happened during the Bush years — and nearly everyone has taken Mr. Obama’s remarks to mean that we won’t — this means that those who hold power are indeed above the law because they don’t face any consequences if they abuse their power.

…Meanwhile, about Mr. Obama: while it’s probably in his short-term political interests to forgive and forget, next week he’s going to swear to “preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States.” That’s not a conditional oath to be honored only when it’s convenient.

And to protect and defend the Constitution, a president must do more than obey the Constitution himself; he must hold those who violate the Constitution accountable. So Mr. Obama should reconsider his apparent decision to let the previous administration get away with crime. Consequences aside, that’s not a decision he has the right to make.