Torture Day, October 17th

[andygates]

Note it in your diaries, it's the day that the USA gave up on all that "shining beacon" rubbish and signed torture into law. The moral authority of that country is now on a par with, say, China, or Burma. It seems you can indeed boil three hundred milllion frogs alive by just turning up the temperature slowly.

Just think, this time next year you could be celebrating the first anniversary of institutionalised, legal torture. How neat! Quick, get an Abu Ghraib torture hoodie for your kids for Hallowe'en!

You could wrap copper wire around Jefferson's coffin and generate enough power to light a small town, he's spinning that fast in his grave. You Americans who read this: how did you let your country get this bad? How do you tolerate it? Have you no shame?

Comments

[flitljm.livejournal.com]

Says here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/6058970.stm that torture specifically not allowed.

You have other info?

[estaratshirai.livejournal.com]

Sure I do. Lots of shame.

I am not the one who let it get this bad. I voted against every one of the fuckers responsible for this who was within my jurisdiction (yes, I'm sure. Believe that I keep track of which of my locals votes for what garbage), every time I had the chance. And donated to their opponents. And to organizations attempting to safeguard us against this and all the other nosedives we've been taking lately. And gone to protests. And raised hell to anyone who would listen to me.

There's loads of us doing likewise. It just isn't working. Because the idea that The People are actually in charge of this country is not entirely correct. There's widespread voter fraud, just for one example, and it's well-documented, but who's in charge of fixing it? Why, the people perpetrating it, of course. Hmm, wonder why more's not getting done.

What exactly is it you would have us do, Andy? Threaten armed revolt? Have ourselves declared domestic terrorists? In a country that's just legalized torture?