FOOLED AGAIN

Just read "Scalia and Torture" on Andy
Sullivan's Dirty Dish, 6/20.

He tells us Justice Scalia links the actions
of Jack Bauer, protagonist of the hit show
"24", to what was going on and indeed, is
still happening in various countries that
run off physical agony. I'm talking about
torture that is part of our treatment of
SUSPECTED terrorists. He indicates that
Bauer should not be jailed if he is caught
by suggesting he saved a zillion people &
if a few bad guys were roughed up so be it.

When Scalia first came to the Court he
was hailed as the second coming of Oliver
Wendell Holmes. That was proven wrong
as it turned out his written opinions only
seemed to inspire the likes of Clarence
Thomas.

Connecting "24", which is a fictional, made
for TV playland, to factual wantonness per-
pertrated by us in Gitmo, Abu Ghraib et al.
allows one to realize why 70% of us feel our
country is on the wrong track in general
and jurisprudence in particular.