Monday, March 10, 2008
If you're not nauseated, you're not paying attention
Finally, a majority of US Senators and Congressmen are sufficiently repulsed by US torture tactics to pass an intelligence authorization bill limiting all US government agencies to interrogation tactics approved by the Army Field Manual [news story].
Bush vetoed this bill.
If you're not repulsed by torture committed in the name of each US citizen (yes, they're doing this in my name and yours) then please watch this video showing new photos of the Abu Ghraib horror. The video is disgusting, yes, but it shows things (a) that our tax dollars pay for every day, and (b) that our president continues to assert are right.
Bush's veto does not only asserts that the practices shown in the video are right, it also asserts that protecting them is more important than supporting all other US intelligence activities..
Gentle reader, please for just one moment suspend your active impulse to deny the impact of torture on a human being. Just for one moment imagine that you are stripped of your dignity and autonomy like one of the people in the video. Just for one moment imagine your life is under control of a person who likes it when you hurt, has fun making you so scared you lose control of your sphincters, and doesn't care if you die. Imagine that this has gone on for weeks . . . or years. Imagine you have no recourse and no hope of getting out alive.
Repulsed yet?
Torture. Is. Wrong. Too bad our president, and a significant minority in Congress, do not grasp this fact.
Bush vetoed this bill.
If you're not repulsed by torture committed in the name of each US citizen (yes, they're doing this in my name and yours) then please watch this video showing new photos of the Abu Ghraib horror. The video is disgusting, yes, but it shows things (a) that our tax dollars pay for every day, and (b) that our president continues to assert are right.
Bush's veto does not only asserts that the practices shown in the video are right, it also asserts that protecting them is more important than supporting all other US intelligence activities..
Gentle reader, please for just one moment suspend your active impulse to deny the impact of torture on a human being. Just for one moment imagine that you are stripped of your dignity and autonomy like one of the people in the video. Just for one moment imagine your life is under control of a person who likes it when you hurt, has fun making you so scared you lose control of your sphincters, and doesn't care if you die. Imagine that this has gone on for weeks . . . or years. Imagine you have no recourse and no hope of getting out alive.
Repulsed yet?
Torture. Is. Wrong. Too bad our president, and a significant minority in Congress, do not grasp this fact.
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Comments:
Sadly an awful lot of Americans are STILL willing to throw out the ignorant, xenophobic, "us or them", "kill 'em all and let God sort 'em out", "pave it and pump it" rhetoric that made it possible for Bush to do such things.
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