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Monday, April 30, 2007 12:00 AM

Beyond the Multiplex

A movie about the Bush-Cheney policy of torture that will make you shake with rage. Plus: Alec Baldwin's unintended laugh lines.
By Andrew O'Hehir

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  • Monday, April 30, 2007 02:20 PM

    Not even Bush

    I share Andrew O'Hehir's rage at the Bush/Cheney policies on torture, but I found it chilling to read the writer's punishment fantasy: "...if this country had any fucking stones we would drag these people out of Washington, strip them of their citizenship and their clothes, and drive them white-baby naked across the Rio Grande to fend for themselves in the Sonora desert."

    If the point of the article was to decry torture, O'Hehir sabotages his argument with such disturbingly ironic imagery. On the one hand, he argues eloquently about the need to see our "enemies" as more than just faceless villains deserving of no mercy. In the next breath, he details his cruel version of justice for the perpetrators of the abuse.

    I'd be as happy as anyone to see the current occupants of the White House impeached and publicly shamed for their many misdeeds. Just please don't torture them.

    —Zachary Patten Read Zachary Patten's other letters

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