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Genuine politics cannot risk a step without first having demonstrated its fidelity to morality, and even though politics may justly be called a difficult art, its combination with morality is no art at all; for morality slices in two the knot which others flounder in the face of once they fall into squabbling. Human rights must be kept whole, no matter what that may cost the powers that be. In this case there must be no compromise, no median worked out between pragmatically oriented rights (between rights and utilitarianism)?all politics must bend its knee before human rights, and only in this fashion may politics ever aspire to reach the stage where it will illuminate humanity. . . .
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Congratulations to the editors of Newday, who have seen through the con artistry played by the Gonzales Justice Department, with remarkable success so far, on the American judiciary. In an editorial yesterday, here?s how they sum it up: . . .
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He just keeps serving them up. It reflects a new vision of the function of the office of Attorney General. Not as the nation?s chief law enforcement office, as a person above politics. But just the opposite: the consigliere, an advisor who knows a thing or two about the law and who uses it to facilitate the dubious to overtly corrupt objectives of his syndicate. . . .
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. . . this life is a perpetual chequer-work of good and evil, pleasure and pain. When in possession of what we desire, we are only so much the nearer losing it; and when at a distance from it, we live in expectation of enjoying it again. . . .
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Contributed by Scott Horton
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More important evidence of judicial backbone this afternoon. In response to a motion by the ACLU challenging the Bush Administration?s insistence on keeping all dealings surrounding the FISA Court in secret, including its orders, the Court has entered an order directing the Bush Administration to explain its abnormal demands for secrecy. . . .
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