Why we flight
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Survey by Pew Research Center for the People & the Press Oct. 12-24, 2005; nationwide survey conducted among 2,006 adults |
| Do you think the use of torture against suspected terrorists in order to gain important information can often be justified, sometimes be justified, rarely be justified, or never be justified? |
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Total public |
Total Catholic |
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| Often Sometimes Rarely Never Don’t know/refused |
15% |
21% |
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White Protestant |
White evangelical |
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| Often Sometimes Rarely Never Don’t know/refused |
15% |
13% |
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Secular |
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| Often Sometimes Rarely Never Don’t know/refused |
10% |
The least evil category here are the secular Americans, but we're still evil. And it freaks the hell out of me that 71% of the polled Catholics are in favor of torture.
This is what empire does; it slowly strips the layers of decency off people until they are nothing more than a mob howling for blood and spectacle. Over 65% of the polled christians now approve of the methods the Romans used to murder their messiah.
This is consent of the governed, and it's why despotic governments can continue to rule; the unacceptable slowly becomes the acceptable, and, as long as you're not one of the scapegoat classes, the lies, the tortures, the mass murdering, why, they aren't as important as what's in the circus tonight, and maybe if you're lucky they'll let you have a chance at putting the boot in tomorrow.
(via Body and Soul)
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Well, barely, and from this side of the border it looks like it was more being pissed off at the Liberals than a sudden enthusiasm for the sort of moral and economic suicide which conservatives bring. And the newspaper articles I read in Canadian papers (like <a href=“http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&call_pageid=971358637177&c=Article&cid=1142941149408”>this article from the Star) tend to have a much more disgusted tone than corresponding articles in the US press.
“…Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition…”
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The only reason a poll like that doesn’t make me quit my job and jump into my car and not stop driving until I’m back in Canada is I’m not sure Canadians are any better. I mean, they voted in Harper, right?