Waterboarding Blah Blah Blah
Waterboarding Approval Focus of Justice Investigation
"WASHINGTON — The Justice Department revealed on Friday that its internal ethics office is investigating the department’s legal approval of waterboarding of Al Qaeda suspects by the Central Intelligence Agency and is likely to make public an unclassified version of its report.
The disclosure by H. Marshall Jarrett, head of the department’s Office of Professional Responsibility, was the first public acknowledgment of an internal review of the series of legal memorandums the department has issued since 2002 authorizing waterboarding and other harsh interrogation methods."
Like the occupation and genocide of the Iraqi people, this fake hand wringing and supposed concern just goes on and on. The fact is, waterboarding is on a long, long list of officially winked at torturous and cruel activities stemming back to the earliest days of european conquest in the americas.
"Endless testimonies . . . prove the mild and pacific temperament of the natives. . . . But our work was to exasperate, ravage, kill, mangle and, destroy..."
American empire was built on torture and in less squeamish days it was considered run of the mill activity to treat the wogs as if they weren't human.
Waterboarding (or half drowning) is as american as apple pie and is only one of countless methods the empire uses to subjugate people who oppose it.
This endless, shameless grandstanding is merely for public consumption. The filthy goings on in the empire's dank and fetid dungeons continue despite all the jawboning and hot air and ambiguous, useless blather.
We need to recognize we've become a militarist, morally retarded, spiritual/psychological sewer.
"WASHINGTON — The Justice Department revealed on Friday that its internal ethics office is investigating the department’s legal approval of waterboarding of Al Qaeda suspects by the Central Intelligence Agency and is likely to make public an unclassified version of its report.
The disclosure by H. Marshall Jarrett, head of the department’s Office of Professional Responsibility, was the first public acknowledgment of an internal review of the series of legal memorandums the department has issued since 2002 authorizing waterboarding and other harsh interrogation methods."
Like the occupation and genocide of the Iraqi people, this fake hand wringing and supposed concern just goes on and on. The fact is, waterboarding is on a long, long list of officially winked at torturous and cruel activities stemming back to the earliest days of european conquest in the americas.
"Endless testimonies . . . prove the mild and pacific temperament of the natives. . . . But our work was to exasperate, ravage, kill, mangle and, destroy..."
American empire was built on torture and in less squeamish days it was considered run of the mill activity to treat the wogs as if they weren't human.
Waterboarding (or half drowning) is as american as apple pie and is only one of countless methods the empire uses to subjugate people who oppose it.
This endless, shameless grandstanding is merely for public consumption. The filthy goings on in the empire's dank and fetid dungeons continue despite all the jawboning and hot air and ambiguous, useless blather.
We need to recognize we've become a militarist, morally retarded, spiritual/psychological sewer.
posted by nolocontendere at 4:45 PM
2 Comments:
As to being a sewer, I agree with you.
However, do you not see a difference between doing these things on the sly and justifying them openly?
I miss the days when our country at least pretended to be more civilized.
Well, this country has always tortured, whether surreptitiously or no, diodotus, and each and every time has been a horrific crime. What gets under my skin (on a metaphorical basis of course) is the smug, whitewashing, ambivalant, peek-a-boo game the criminals are playing these days when accusations of torture are brought up. That and how dumbed down americans refuse to look reality in face.
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