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Let me explain that although my personal philosophy of life is not easily described I'm closest to being a liberal than anything else.
The United States of America has the highest incarceration rate in the world. Let me put that another way for emphasis, the land of the free cages a higher percentage of its citizens than any other regime on the planet.
And yet when I raise the issue I can rarely get any liberals to respond at all. It either bores everyone to tears or scares them, I'm not really sure which.
If there is anyone who thinks that torture is not routine in US prisons then let me disabuse you of that notion, Sixty minutes did a piece not too long ago about a man who died of thirst in prison. Occurrences like that, while not perhaps as severe, are happening every day in our prisons and jails.
We as liberals have this great outrage that foreign nationals are being tortured and yet seem to have no thought at all for our fellow citizens being tortured and caged by the millions.
We are like lawyers, straining at the gnat of torture by our intelligence agencies while swallowing the camel of routine torture of our own citizens.
