Catholic and Enjoying It!
For telling the truth about torture.
The reason this is back in the news is because the pols and media hacks who spent much of the last decade trying to justify Bush/Cheney torture policies (and exonerate themselves from war crimes) are now lyingly claiming that torture got bin Laden. It didn’t. But suckers who want to believe that it did (because they invested themselves in defending torture too) are passing on this pseudoknowledge as gospel.
In reality, as interrogation experts from every branch of the military and intelligence services agree, torture is not only immoral, it doesn’t freakin’ work! In fact, it’s counter-productive, wasting millions and sending our limited human resources off on wild goose chases.
Why does this matter? Because the media talking head liars for the Thing that Used to Be Conservatism who are trying to get some Me Too Love for killing bin Laden are deliberately hawking bad and destructive policies which put Americans in danger, all to save their own sorry selfish skin. They are, in a word, unpatriotic. They don’t care about keeping you safe. They care about saving themselves. The only “evidence” ever pointed to by these self-serving creeps is their own claims that their torture worked.
Don’t get played any more. Torture, like all intrinsic evil, is a Faustian Bargain. You lose your soul and get *nothing* in return.
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