As the Bush Era of Torture enters it's next phase of investigation and accountability, which will happen one way or another, either here or abroad. The truth demands that there be an accounting of what happened here.
As I've been watching the debate going on about the possibility of prosecutions for War Crimes of Bush Administration Personnel I've had some thought on what our country has just been through.
As I've been watching the debate going on about the possibility of prosecutions for War Crimes of Bush Administration Personnel I've had some thought on what our country has just been through.
The Ticking Bomb
The only ticking bombs happen on TV or on the battlefield. What could be more of a ticking bomb then 2 armies engaged on the battlefield. potentially hundreds of thousand live at stake and they don't torture.
But let's say for argument we are in a real ticking dirty bomb situation and I am the Interrogator. Being a human being in an intensely emotional situation I might resort to tactics that would not be considered legal. In the end I would expect to be prosecuted. I would also be hoping for a pardon.
SAVAGES
Any time the Top cracks open the door, even slightly, to torture. It is the savagery in Man that bust through that door at the Bottom.
INDEFINITE DETENTION
Recently I heard Lindsey Graham Senator from one of the Carolinas (like you know which one right off the top of your head) say that The US government needed to come up with a system of Indefinite Detention. Stop and thinks about that. A member of our government says that the people of the US need to be able to pick a person off the street and just hold them because we say so.
Recently I heard Lindsey Graham Senator from one of the Carolinas (like you know which one right off the top of your head) say that The US government needed to come up with a system of Indefinite Detention. Stop and thinks about that. A member of our government says that the people of the US need to be able to pick a person off the street and just hold them because we say so.
