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Institutionalizing Evil Party moral values

Now the torturers are doing on the record presentations about why torture is good. Never mind that torture doesn't work. Never mind that they're torturing innocent civilians picked up off the street because the footsoldiers have a prisoner quota they need to fill. Never mind that torture is an obscenity before G-d that no civilized society should condone. Oh, no, it's a battle of civilizations, and the torturers will cheerfully chirp on about it being really important that our "civilization" should surrender before it's at risk of being "conquered" by some other (and by other, they mean "non-white") civilization.

What next? Big conventions at the Marriott, with slaves flown in from Iraq for live torture demonstrations so the thumbscrew manufacturers can demonstrate their new "humane" fingerbreakers, and nice keynote speeches by conservative religious figures who will piously explain that it's a holy war and if you torture someone for Christ G-d will personally see to it that you get into Heaven?

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What next? Big conventions at the Marriott, with slaves flown in from Iraq for live torture demonstrations so the thumbscrew manufacturers can demonstrate their new "humane" fingerbreakers, and nice keynote speeches by conservative religious figures who will piously explain that it's a holy war and if you torture someone for Christ G-d will personally see to it that you get into Heaven?"

Yep. They'll be right between the landmine booths, which our country is still appalingly unclear on how devastating and long-lasting these weapons can be, and the NRA booth ("Guns don't kill people. They just make it real easy.")

Good grief! Can't the neo-con/radical Republican/Christian conservatives get their "culture of life" message straight? From the looks of things: no.

Moses Thu Mar 31 15:11:10 2005

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