1. torture does NOT 'work': you squeeze someone until they break, and they will say ANYTHING to make the pain stop, make the cold stop, make the drowning stop, make the 'stress position' stop, make the sleep deprivation stop; they will say ANYTHING, they will implicate their mothers, they will offer their children as your sex slave, they will humiliate themselves to their psychological core, they will confess to ANYTHING you offer as an out to make *whatever* just fucking stop ! ! !

(no, this is not a silly old squishy soft pinko's opinion, ANY AND ALL interviews and articles with professional/military interrogators tell us torture is a messy, inexact, stupid, counter-productive method to extract intelligence...)

2. the simplistic 'ticking timebomb' scenario to 'justify' torture is not only tortured logic, not only virtually impossible to happen in reality, but also an insane 'rationale' to base torturing the 99.999999999999% of torture victims who DON'T have any (theoretical) 'ticking timebomb' information...

3. in these post-bill-of-rights times, it hardly takes a stretch to imagine that AMERICANS who already had their constitutional rights held as optional by the unitary executive (aka big brother/fearless leader), will be the next subjects of torture when they dare to squawk...

(oops, jose padilla might have an opinion on that; too bad he doesn't have a fucking mind left now that we're done, you know, getting solid intel out of him...)

4. again, ANY AND ALL interrogators and torturers will tell you what most of the world recognizes AND makes -you know- quaint laws and treaties and stuff forbidding : 'handsoff', 'psychological', sensory-deprivation tortures are FAR 'worse' than most mere physical/painful tortures...

put some cozy ear muffs on, some cute oven mittens, a soothing blindfold, (don't even need the thorazine suppository!) and within 48 hours that person will be a slobbering mass of protoplasm who will say/do/feel WHATEVER THE FUCK the godlike creatures who reinvent the torture victim want...

you will note that the bush cabal and their evil minions of doom CONSISTENTLY and FLATLY reject ANY/ALL laws/treaties/etc which mention 'psychological'/sensory-deprivation totures...

you will also note that neither the mainstream mediawhores, nor our kongresskritters bother to make a point of this HUGE and glaring oversight into the subject of 'torture'...

gosh, ain't it swell having a korporate-kontrolled media and gummint ! ! !

art guerrilla

aka ann archy

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1. um, i know this is all inconvenient -you know- wonky, stupid, nit-pickery, but isn't the AG *supposed* to be the attorney for THE COUNTRY/PEOPLE ? ? ?

doesn't the white house/prez have their OWN white house counsel ? ? ? (not to mention all the hired parasites, er, fixers, er, playas, er, lawyers that king georgie/etc have retained)

isn't the AG *supposed* to represent US/the constitution ? ? ?

just askin'...

2. dem'rats cave JUST ONE MORE TIME (weally, twuly, now this is absowutewy the vewy wast time ! ! ! ) on a major issue which cuts to the core of 'our' (sic) democrazy already on life-support...

boy, them dem'rats sure have been stockpiling a LOT of dry powder, just what/when/how do they intend to use it ? ? ?

*snicker*

3. most kampers know: the rethugs and dem'rats are playing bad kop/clueless kop as their roles in the overarching duty they have to maintain the status quo for power elites and the morally bankrupt (soon to be literally so) system whose invisible claw keeps us all in its thrall...

4. WHEN / HOW / WHO is going to challenge/change this system ? ? ? NOT any of the extant posturing pols, that is fer shure, dude: they ARE PART OF THE BROKEN SYSTEM/PROBLEM... NOT any of the functionaries, propaganda victims, and scared bunny babbits, they just want bread and circuses, the hell with everyone else...

when the shit hits the fan, when the hard rain comes, when the economy circles the drain, it will be the dispossessed, the victims of capitalist drivebys, the disposable nekkid apes who grease the machinery of rapacious capitalist imperialism, who will be left to rise up on their hind legs and do the dying that will be necessary to restore true democracy...

the rest are pussies willing to sacrifice everything to eat their cheese doodles, watch their 'reality' shows, and forget they have a fucking conscience...

will bebop-o stop-o the tanks in lafayette park by placing a crunchy celery stalk in the barrel of the tanks ?

will shouter2-4-D man the barricades ?

will sysprog's incisive research inform and inflame the populace such that a bloodless coup will replace the broken system ?

i don't think so: bebop-o would be a tread smear on the sidewalk; shouter will be the first quisling on his block, and look really sharp in his brownshirt; and sysprog will be on the sharp side of the razorwire, being -you know- not-tortured by waterboarding... (its completely 'legal' now ! ! ! *whew*)

come the revolution, it will be nut-cuttin' time...

art guerrilla

aka ann archy

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...or just archaic ?

hee hee hee

oh, sorry, i guess i was disrespectful to the 'good guy's (*snort*), i should have said 'pwogwessive dem'ratics'...

ho ho ho

*is* there a bigger bunch of wimps, symps, saps, drips, self-loathing, self-sabotaging, selfish, cowardly, useless spaceholders to *ever* constitute a political party ? ? ?

ha ha ha

oh, but scaredy bunny babbits will *STILL* put their full faith and trust in the 'opposition' party (insert me laughing hysterically)...

ak ak ak

will the sleeper awaken ? ? ?

prob not as long as we have plenty of cheesy doodles, sugarwater, and the glass teat to succor our deepest, dearest consumerist desires...

keep working that cud sheeple ! ! !

chew chew chew

come the revolution, cud-chewers will be eaten...

art guerrilla

aka ann archy

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