Comments on: U.S. has secretly been engaging in torture.

By: tim

tim — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 16:06:54 +0000

Hey Smails, quick question.

I know your in BlackOps mode today, with your cavalier statements about the torturing of your fellow humans (No wait, the people in question here are not white Americans, so the fellow human does not apply, my bad…guess I need to stop reading those liberal based books of the Bible and stick with the ‘Book of Redneck’), but while you are cleaning the paint ball shrapnel off your BDU’s, tell us Oh Secret SEAL, where do you draw the line?

America used to be defined not so much by what we did, but what we did not do. Stories about knocks at the door that took a father away, never to return…were in novels about Russia or Nazi Germany.

You scoff at the famous ‘First they came for…’ and you know what, I used to do that as well. The day it made sense to me was on a tour of Dachau some 20 years ago. Standing in the oven room, looking at a picture of the spot I was standing stacked to the ceiling with bodies and a roaring fire in the open oven behind it…at that moment I got it.

I don’t expect anything to EVER change your mind as long as you confuse compassion with weakness.

By: Jeff Uphoff

Jeff Uphoff — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 17:17:41 +0000

Katey, that’s easy: because the government is more efficient at summarily locking folks up than it is at providing education, health care, or infrastructure. (Where’s the harm in letting it do what it’s best at?)

By: Katey

Katey — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 16:08:41 +0000

It’s so odd how conservatives, who love to rail about the ineffectiveness and unreliability of government, are so enthusiastic about giving the government unrestrained power to lock people up without any recourse. Why is the government to be trusted implicitly to determine that someone is a terrorist (without any oversight, or trial, or presentation of evidence)but isn’t to be trusted to provide education, health care, or infrastructure?

By: KCinDC

KCinDC — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 15:11:43 +0000

Under Bush, we’ve gone from “shining city on a hill” to “filthy village in the valley — but, hey, we’re better than Saddam Hussein and those Al Qaeda guys!” I’m proud to be an American!

By: Ben C.

Ben C. — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 14:29:08 +0000

You know JS, you’re right, but why stop at torture? Lets rape their women and make leather goods from their hides when we’re done! It’ll help demoralize the enemy and win this war.

By: Judge Smails

Judge Smails — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 13:45:05 +0000

At first they came for the Islamofascists, but I was not an Islamofascist…

I’m trembling.

By: Tim McCormack

Tim McCormack — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 12:48:20 +0000

Judge Smails: You too are a Foreign Terrorist in the eyes of some official in some country. Just hope that they respect Habeas Corpus more than you do.

By: Scott Nolan

Scott Nolan — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 12:09:21 +0000

Everything out of George W. Bush’s mouth is a lie… it is only a matter of time before the truth of each lie comes out.

The only question is, will the office of the presidency ever be trusted again?

By: Josh

Josh — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 11:29:09 +0000

At least the war on the middle class is going well.

By: Judge Smails

Judge Smails — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 03:39:24 +0000

I suppose to proponents of the Foreign Terrorist Bill of Rights, er, I mean the Habeas Corpus Restoration Act, this is a big deal. For the rest of us: Zzzzzzz.