I Don't Know

I don't know why Americans would ever be okay with the American government keeping an American citizen isolated, without contact with family or attorneys, in a military prison, for years, without ever being charged with a crime.

I don't know why Americans would ever be okay with the idea of trying people who we claim are our military enemies for crimes that didn't exist at the time they were alleged to have committed them in courts that didn't exist at the time their alleged crimes were committed.

I don't know why Americans would ever be okay with forcing someone to testify against themselves by torturing them.

I don't know why Americans would ever be okay with keeping anyone in jail forever without ever charging them with any crime.

I don't know why Americans would ever be okay with other Americans snatching people off the streets of their countries and secretly delivering them to other countries so that they can be tortured.

I don't know why Americans would ever be okay with America knowingly and intentionally violating the Geneva Conventions.

I don't know why Americans who claim to worship the greatest healer the world has ever known would be against providing health care for all Americans.

I don't know why an American would answer the question "What do we say to this poor sick woman who doesn't have health care" by screaming, "Let her die!"

I don't know why Americans would cheer when someone says to a poor, sick American woman who has no health care, "Let her die!"

I don't know why Americans would blame someone for failing to do something that they kept him from doing.

I don't know why Americans would be okay with capital unions but be against labor unions.

I don't know why Americans have become the people they have become.

And I am afraid.