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StrangerThan -> RE: Poor Dick (4/26/2009 3:45:32 PM)
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ORIGINAL: rulemylife
You know I have said this before, but I'll say it again.
I don't care which party it was, if a case can be made against them for allowing, pursuing, or promoting illegal actions then they should be prosecuted.
Well, that's the rub. No one wants to sit down and define what is torture. I think anyone with common sense knows waterboarding is, but out of the infamous torture list, that was about the only thing I'd consider outright torture. In the video philosopy posted, the interviewer kept saying "I'm not telling you what it is, but don't do it."
Well hell, what good is that? Particularly in a world where some folks will cry torture at the use of a caterpillar. People keep telling me that we don't need to be having that kind of conversation. The hell we don't. If I'm going to put people in prison, I damned well want to know what ground I'm standing on, and what ground they're standing on so that I can look at it say yup, that's the bad ground. But no one wants to do that. Judith Miller in that same video, no matter what was asked of her kept going back to waterboarding.
I swear, it's like you want to slap her and say, ok stupid, we're past that. We know it is. Now, let's have the caterpillar discussion.
Because until we do, we have no higher ground to stand upon. What we have is a glass pedastal that shatters over things like bugs. It can't stand the heat and we end up looking like a nation split between whining, sychophantic freaks and SS prison guards. It is insane. Not only is it insane, but you give credence to those who will refuse to prosecute anyone when such silliness is incorporated into the grand scheme.
Telling ya, put me on a jury where someone authorized waterboarding, I'll convict. Put me on a jury where someone used a caterpillar, and we'll damned well sit there until hell freezes over or until there's a hung jury because I will not.
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