Yes, this has been what I have been thinking for months now...

Terrific post on Daily Kos today. Please take the time to read it all the way through... The link is in the title. And the film clip?

Take the seven minutes to look. It ain't pretty, and have seen worse. And then please explain to me how now, so many years later, smirking arseholes and talking heads on the tee-vee can condone similar things, (and yes, I mean you Faux News) and say it was 'keeping you safe', or the scale was smaller, so that was ok... Or... nope, haven't been able to wrap my head around that sort of logic. What was that about people who haven't learned from the past are damned to repeat it? Looks like we all got there.... So put down your samwich, and watch...



Now what were you gonna justify all that with??? Did you SEE the parallels? Oh yeah, it wasn't on a momentuous scale, so it must have been ok. right....

We all are just not evil enough in our thinking, seems like...

The discourse over the past week did go to serve what many were thinking about torture programs anyway. Only it seems it was much, much worse. Some allegations, if true, turned my stomach. But have yet to be verified. And the Clown cars of the right scrambling to give 'justifications', and ooo, it was such a perilous time. Poppycock. BS! This stuff isn't going to go away, and the sooner the POTUS realises that fact, the better.

Can't pretend to know what sort of balancing act the POTUS has to master in order not to get into worse of a situation than he already is in. His 'caution' and 'reluctance' to take some steps and put the sunshine on this festering issue have both sides
clutching their panties, and that isn't good. And will, in the long run make him look indecisive and weak.

Americablog linked to this last nite. With the original link. You do not want to see the original link... It reveals the most paranoid fucked-up world-view.... well I knew they were crazy, but holy shit, hey! And I am KICKING myself for not having marked the only video I ran across from the DC Press Corps dinner, and TWO women in high fashion started SCREAMING at Rumsfeld when he walked in, 'War Criminal! War Criminal!' And not in tandem, mind you....

Found it on YouTube. Here is the link. It was the ladies from Code Pink. But look at this asshole's face. He thinks he is gonna live for fucking EVER. And I hope they RUINED his evening.

I'd like to CRUSH his balls in front of his wife and see how he likes it. With pliers. (I wouldn't touch him for a million Euros.) And that is one of the allegatgions which made me sick to my stomach. Doing that---allegedly---to a child in front of his father to make him 'talk'. Please note---alleged.

Link

And THEY got arrested, of course. And he just kept walking along, smiling and bobbing, smiling and bobbing... It was eerie. (Note to self, RenB, throw in bookmarks for the things you find at three in the morning, you idjit... It wasn't anywhere else, but was on video...)

To say I am sickened by the apologists who somehow think they are going to keep their jobs by using the dumbest defenses of torture I have ever heard, ok, goes without saying.... Right, 'Have a nice night'... Class act on some poor guy who got to escort people in...

And am only going to say: you all got hijacked by some of the greatest criminals of all time, and the motive was just greed, paranoia, fear, and the ends justified the means for them.

I would very much like to see it dealt with. Make some noise, damn it! (I know, some are, but it isn't enough, the noise machine from the right is set too high. Cyberblast their broadcasting antennas, or something.... Which is only meant metaphorically....)

Just saying.....