Speak Up & Speak Out!!!

Gravatar Amen....

And as psychotic as these people are, they still deserve better treatment than their prisoners.

I would add Alberto Gonzales to your list.

Seeing the Crucified in the Real World:

His anonymous form has become the internationally-recognized symbol of abuse and torture, and for many around the world, of American brutality and arrogance. Within the United States, however, the image is the center of swirling controversy. In what journalist Mark Danner has called the "master narrative" put forward by the Bush administration, "Hooded Man" and unnumbered others who shared similar outrages were only the victims of a few "bad apples," rogue elements in the military and intelligence contractors whose behavior "does not represent America." Their abuse in no way implicates higher-ups, who insist they are shocked, shocked by the photos (which Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld nonetheless sought to suppress months before they appeared in the press). Besides, surely these poor wretches wouldn't have suffered if they hadn't been caught up in U.S. military sweeps for "insurgents." It is U.S. government policy that Hooded Man will never enjoy the presumption of innocence on which his uniformed abusers may rely.
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Christ, in Gibson's film, suffers beyond the limits of ordinary human endurance: certainly beyond the pedestrian tortures of the tens of thousands of other Judeans crucified by the Roman imperial project in the first century. The anonymous Iraqi, on the other hand, does not merit our sympathy, at least in the precise terms of the legal memo White House counsel (now Attorney General) Alberto Gonzales solicited regarding what qualifies as torture. Not having suffered "major organ damage" or injury leading directly to death, he was subjected only to "cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment," which (however regrettable) doesn't qualify as action from which agents of the United States need refrain.








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