Cruel Indifference, Justice for None

The Bush administration continues to set new lows for inhumane treatment, for cruelty, for indifference, for bureaucratic bungling, and for moral turpitude. Here is a NY Times story that will break your heart:

• Bureaucratic bungling: because green card papers were sent to the wrong address, the US government jailed an innocent man.
• Cruel indifference: because the US now treats everyone guilty until they can prove "innocence" to a suspicious police/judicial system, this man was not believed when he complained of excruciating pain.
• Cruel indifference: because authorities "believed" this man was lying about his back pain, they first denied him pain medication, then when the medical staff came to believe him, they forced him to stand in line for the pills. But his pain became so great he couldn't stand in line, so he had to go without pain pills.
• Vicious cruelty: rather than let his lawyers make a habeus corpus claim on him, they dragged this fatally ill man out of state and broke his cancer-weakened spine in the process.
• Moral indifference: nobody in this system has admitted any guilt or any flaw in how this system could treat an innocent man so cruelly.
  

This guy is part of 300,000 people held in a "dead zone" where legal standards don't reach. These are the modern day inmates of a Devil's Island penal system from which there is no appeal and no escape.

Americans got a pimple, so they took a chainsaw and hacked off limbs and faces of everybody around them to solve their "terrorist" problem. What a grim, ugly, immoral joke. When will the American people wake up to their idiocies and crimes?

Read the article and weep. In the good old days the morally sensitive would say "you sow what you reap" and the prophets would say "woe unto you Israel". Well... if there was a God, the American people should rend their garments, throw ashes on themselves, fall onto their knees, and weep plentiful tears to try and show their repentence. But... I'm a modern person, so I expect none of that. I expect more bureaucratic bungling, more cruel indifference, more moral turpitude.

I understand the moral indifference of Nature. Justice and morality are human concepts. What I can't stand are the human perpetrators of injustice and immorality. Life is brief and cruel enough without our fellow human beings heaping misery on top of Nature's indifference.