Comments on: Hey, Dick! http://justorb.com/2009/09/01/hey-dick/ A Tangential Autobiography Fri, 18 May 2012 23:21:53 +0000 hourly 1 By: Orb http://justorb.com/2009/09/01/hey-dick/comment-page-1/#comment-15745 Orb Wed, 02 Sep 2009 17:19:50 +0000 http://justorb.com/2009/09/01/hey-dick/#comment-15745 It peeves me no end how for years I was sitting right here ranting about how all the pieces fit together and that no matter what they were saying we were torturing people, and the world said "No. We aren't torturing people. America doesn't torture." And slowly but surely everything I'd imagined PLUS MORE has been coming out to be true. And now he's sitting there on TV and admitting it. ADMITTING IT casually as if "So what?!" So now it's still America doesn't torture, because that what WE do isn't torture, no matter what it is. You know, even if it fits the classic definition of torture. If the current administration doesn't do something hard-nosed about what the past administration did, America can kiss any remaining moral standing it might still have goodbye. I mean, we have a former vice-president flapping his jaws on national TV telling the world we did things the rest of the world knows full well is torture no matter what fancy name we chose to give it. It peeves me no end how for years I was sitting right here ranting about how all the pieces fit together and that no matter what they were saying we were torturing people, and the world said “No. We aren’t torturing people. America doesn’t torture.” And slowly but surely everything I’d imagined PLUS MORE has been coming out to be true.

And now he’s sitting there on TV and admitting it. ADMITTING IT casually as if “So what?!” So now it’s still America doesn’t torture, because that what WE do isn’t torture, no matter what it is. You know, even if it fits the classic definition of torture.

If the current administration doesn’t do something hard-nosed about what the past administration did, America can kiss any remaining moral standing it might still have goodbye. I mean, we have a former vice-president flapping his jaws on national TV telling the world we did things the rest of the world knows full well is torture no matter what fancy name we chose to give it.

]]> By: John http://justorb.com/2009/09/01/hey-dick/comment-page-1/#comment-15740 John Wed, 02 Sep 2009 05:49:57 +0000 http://justorb.com/2009/09/01/hey-dick/#comment-15740 "...neither a gun nor a drill had actually been used on detainees." Which coming from him means they did shoot and drill people. Much like the criminal suspect who inadvertently volunteers information which he would not know otherwise while trying to flimflam the interviewing detectives. “…neither a gun nor a drill had actually been used on detainees.” Which coming from him means they did shoot and drill people. Much like the criminal suspect who inadvertently volunteers information which he would not know otherwise while trying to flimflam the interviewing detectives.

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