We do not torture? Oh yes you do!
db: "We do not torture" is worthless from a nation that maintains a network of secret camps - housing unidentified 'ghosts' - to whom even the Red Cross is denied access. What's that about if it's not about torturing them and abusing them away from all humanitarian oversight? And we are talking about an open ended sentence. The 'ghost' detainees, in what ever dark hole they now find themselves manacled, stripped and hung, are looking at staying there until Bush and his fellow neocon criminals are ousted. Who is Bush and Rice trying to fool? ... Oh yes, that would be Americans.
SFchronical: "We do not torture." Remember it. Write it in red crayon on the bathtub wall, tattoo it onto your acid tongue because those very words rang throughout the land like a bleak bell, like a low scream in the night, like a cheese grater rubbing against the teeth of common sense when Dubya mumbled them during a speech not long ago, and it was, at once, hilarious and nauseating and it took all the self-control in the world for everyone in the room not to burst out in disgusted laughter and throw their chairs at his duplicitous little head.
Oh my God, yes, yes we do torture, America, that is, and we do it a lot, and we do it in ways that would make you sick to hear about, and we're doing it right now, all over the world, the CIA and the U.S. military, perhaps more often and more brutally than at any other time in recent history and we use the exact same techniques and excuses for it that our numb-minded president cited as reasons we should declare war and oust the dictator of a defenseless pipsqueak nation who happened to be sitting on our oil.
This is something we must know, acknowledge, take to heart and not simply file away as some sort of murky, disquieting unknowable that's best left to scummy lords of the government underworld. We must not don the blinders and think America is always, without fail, the land of the perky and the free and the benevolent. Horrific torture is very much a part of who we are, right now. Deny it at your peril. Accept it at your deep discontent. Read more
SFchronical: "We do not torture." Remember it. Write it in red crayon on the bathtub wall, tattoo it onto your acid tongue because those very words rang throughout the land like a bleak bell, like a low scream in the night, like a cheese grater rubbing against the teeth of common sense when Dubya mumbled them during a speech not long ago, and it was, at once, hilarious and nauseating and it took all the self-control in the world for everyone in the room not to burst out in disgusted laughter and throw their chairs at his duplicitous little head.
Oh my God, yes, yes we do torture, America, that is, and we do it a lot, and we do it in ways that would make you sick to hear about, and we're doing it right now, all over the world, the CIA and the U.S. military, perhaps more often and more brutally than at any other time in recent history and we use the exact same techniques and excuses for it that our numb-minded president cited as reasons we should declare war and oust the dictator of a defenseless pipsqueak nation who happened to be sitting on our oil.
This is something we must know, acknowledge, take to heart and not simply file away as some sort of murky, disquieting unknowable that's best left to scummy lords of the government underworld. We must not don the blinders and think America is always, without fail, the land of the perky and the free and the benevolent. Horrific torture is very much a part of who we are, right now. Deny it at your peril. Accept it at your deep discontent. Read more
posted by exoplanet at 3:55 PM
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