Friday, September 22, 2006

When we pay our taxes, we will be paying for torture

eRobin: When we pay our taxes, we will be paying for torture - "When the torture practices at Abu Ghraib were revealed, I went on record welcoming the torture debate, even such as it was, going on in the country. Now the debate seems to be over. Barring a filibuster of the Great Torture Compromise, which, like Digby, I think is simply not going to happen, state-sanctioned torture will become the official policy of the United States of America. When we vote, we will be voting in support of torture. When we recite the pledge, we will be pledging our allegiance to waterboarding and other, undisclosed toture techniques. When we pay our taxes, we will be paying for torture. When our children, God, our poor children, write essays in praise of the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave, they will be writing in praise of torture. That’s what these cowards in power have done to us all. I don’t know. Maybe they’re doing us a favor; at least now we don’t have to pretend anymore."

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