Wednesday, 13 May 2009

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  Sometimes I feel

  I was justifiably angry, like everybody else, after 9-11-01 and for a long time after.  2003. 2004. If there was any talk about torture at Gitmo, I turned a deaf ear to it. I say this to my shame. 

   

  I wanted (and still want) Osama bin Laden to either get blowed up real good in some stinking cave somewhere, or captured and extradited to the United eStates and tried for murder in the 1^st degree of ~3,000 human souls.  After his conviction, I want him sentenced to be locked up for the rest of his life, and more importantly, absolutely ignored.  No interviews.  No reporting.  No biographies.  No media whatsoever.  Just fed and otherwise ignored for the rest of his miserable stinking filthy small tiny poor life.

   

  In a related matter, I’ve always liked the movie Dirty Harry.  Recently, I saw Taken with Liam Neeson and enjoyed that.  In both of these movies (and there are many other examples), the hero tortures a ne’er-do-well to get valuable information in his pursuit of justice.  Watching those movies, I feel the hero’s sense of urgency and sympathize with his decision to use torture to extract the needed information.  The Clock Is Ticking!! If I Don’t Find Her Now, She’ll Die!!  The Ends Justify The Means.  In Taken, Neeson even shoots the innocent wife of a ne’er-do-well (in the shoulder) in order to get someone talking.  We excuse this because He Must Save His Daughter!!  I give him even more leeway than I would Harry Callahan because, come on, that’s his daughter!

   

  Of course, while I pray that I am never placed in a position to make such cruel choices, I can certainly understand the temptation to use any means necessary to protect the innocent.  But that’s what it is.  A temptation.  Because we’re talking about sin.  What makes us “civilized” is the idea that we all agree to be guided by Law. Not all law-breaking is sin and not all sin is law-breaking, but torture?  There’s no question.  There’s no gray area. It. Is.Wrong.

   

  And those that are actually discussing whether or not we get useful information out of torture are the most outrageous.  I mean, drinking a baby’s blood may grow hair back on my head, but I’m never going to find out - I’m just going to keep learning to live bald and debonair.  You can’t stand for good and then do evil.  Once you start doing evil, uh, you don’t stand for good anymore.

   

  I’m ashamed of myself for not being outraged sooner than I was, but hearing these sleazy dirt bags talking about “enhanced interrogation techniques” has sickened me.  You can rename it “Enhanced Interrogation” if you want I suppose – *plays Nazi card* – but calling it the “Final Solution to the Jewish Question” did not legitimize the Holocaust.

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

  Enough rhetoric, let’s turn to mathematics for the solutions to these conundrums.  Here’s a useful sum:

  Military Intelligence using Enhanced Interrogation Techniques against Terrorists

  –

  Spanish Inquisition using The Rack to Extract 'confessions' from Jews

  =

  0.000003

   

  GOP.  Stop fooling yourselves.

   

   

  AU~out

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