Torturers

Ga. Republican says he supports "methods necessary" for detainees
Sep. 20, 2006

Republican, of course.

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Pressed on whether that means he supports torture, he said, "What's torture? Torture is many things to many people ... people have different breaking points."

Asked whether he would support using electric shocks, he said, "Electric shocks are given to people during initiations to different clubs ... Is that torture? I don't know."
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http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/mld/ledgerenquirer/15566134.htm


Georgia congressman lynn westmoreland. He’s really some piece of work, ain’t he? He didn’t take me up on my offer to demonstrate a few of these techniques to him in the shed out back. I’m thinking he’s just another one of them tough talking little chicken shits that seem to populate our national political and media scene these days. I don’t really know how to put this, I’ll try to be tactful. To pass ANY legislation allowing for any sort of torture is a war crime. Period.

Let me try to explain something for them. Getting smacked, shocked, humiliated, roughed up, etc. is all well and good for your fucking fraternity initiation, if you get off on that sort of stuff. OK? Are we on the same page still?

Now then, have you forgotten that these people are locked up? Forever? And this shit ain’t gonna stop. Try it yourselves you bastards. The shed’s still out back. More than enough space.

Where are your brains? Where is your conscience? How about thinking about someone doing that to your father and mother, because we are. If you never liked your parents anyway, imagine your children in that situation, cause we’re doing the deed on children.

You know, it takes a deeply disturbed mind, twisted into a soul-deadening darkness, to want to torture someone. And it takes REAL men and REAL women to stand up and oppose something like this simply because it is wrong, foully, psychotically wrong.


An update
Bush, GOP rebels reach accord on tribunal laws
President urges Congress to pass bill on interrogating terror suspects
6:45 pm 9/21/06
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14941594/
Updated: 6:49 p.m. ET Sept 21, 2006

WASHINGTON - The White House and rebellious Senate Republicans announced agreement Thursday on rules for the interrogation and trial of suspects in the war on terror. President Bush urged Congress to put it into law before adjourning for the midterm elections.

“I’m pleased to say that this agreement preserves the single most potent tool we have in protecting America and foiling terrorist attacks,” the president said, shortly after administration officials and key lawmakers announced agreement following a week of high-profile intraparty disagreement….

Well, we’re all torturers now.

McCain sold his balls.

Do we have enough senators who haven’t yet sold their balls that can filibuster this foul stain on America? Do we have enough Americans left who have retained theirs to support those that oppose this?

You can sit and rationalize all you want, but remember this. When we let our government torture anyone, for whatever reason, we’ve given that same government permission to do that to us.

So, what did you do in the war, daddy?