Wednesday, October 18, 2006

Hang Them!

Here’s a comment I came across in a blog… “Bush and a supine, cowardly Congress shredded the US Constitution on Tuesday, abolishing the right of a court review (habeas corpus) for some classes of suspect. Suspect, mind you, not proven criminal.” Emphasis mine.

What is it about the word “suspect” that prompts otherwise intelligent people to read the word as “guilty”? I mean, one starts with the letter “s” and the other starts with “g”. How difficult can that be? Is this a failure of our education system? Or our government? I suspect it’s the government…

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