This is the planet of the Golden Rule: do unto others as you would have them do unto you. That is simple enough that even a RRWacko should be able to understand it. If we use the waterboard on “them”, then we have no moral highground to demand that they do NOT use the waterboard on our boys.

Therefore we can conclude that our present “regime” does not care for the welfare of any single soldier. What is the value of one soldier this way or that? Our regime only cares about the “army” … that is, the mass of soldiers.

Here’s something so subtle that the RRWackos cannot possibly comprehend it: “The Shambala Warrior that practices mercy is without fear.”

We suck well, so that you don’t have to….yeah.

http://www.torontosun.com/Comment/2007/11/05/4631705-sun.html

btw Don’t they use truth serum anymore? Wouldn’t that be easier? On everybody?

When I was four my parents were staying at Gilbert’s Hotel in the Catskills. A counselor was supposed to take me into the pool because I couldn’t swim.

It turned out the counselor “wasn’t feeling well” that day (years later i was told she wouldn’t go in the water because she ahd ehr period). So she let me go in by myself.

The bottom o f the pool was slippery and the water was past my waist. After taking a few steps I suddenly slipped and went under.

I still recall the feeling of wild panic as I slipped below the surface. Of course I was rescued a few seconds later but it is almost fifty years later and I still recall with absolute clarity that moment when I thought it was all over.

Naturally no one inflicted this on me. It was simply an accident something that happened. But to deliberately induce this unforgettable and horrible feeling in another human being? You’re gonna tell me that is NOT torture?

Impossible. How could there even be any question about it?

There’s a difference between a reactionary president and an insane president; and I’d go for the insane one only if I saw some chance it would lead to a revolution. Right now, I don’t.

Well, that’s the problem. We have to get the insane one in office working his or her magic before the conditions/desire for bloody revolution in the streets become apparent. You’ll remember this tactic worked well for all the leftist Euro-terror groups in the ’70s. (OK, maybe not, but it’s worth one more try.)

And thanks DEMIZE! Yes, the DSL is back, but I’m about to become homeless, so it’s sort of academic.

Dare I say that maybe there is still hope for our democracy?

Good blog, Bossy!

Still, if I had a vote, I’d vote for Nixon if it kept Rudy out of the White House. There’s a difference between a reactionary president and an insane president; and I’d go for the insane one only if I saw some chance it would lead to a revolution. Right now, I don’t.

Greetings Bossy,

I wandered over for the first time last night and couldn’t put you down. Laughed until 3 in the morning. Good styling and fun over there.

See wingnut reaction to Miranda v. Arizona in the 1960s and 1970s.

Wingnuts said Miranda was “coddling criminals” and “handcuffing law enforcement.” But funny thing that when wingnuts get arrested they know their “Miranda Rights” quite well and are quite glad to have them.

Good question, and here’s the answer:

Wingnuts (in spite of their chest-thumping claim of being “realists”) live in an imaginary world. Clearly the religious nutz do, but even the non-religious.

By “imaginary” I mean, a world that starts with emotion, and then looks around for the “evidence” in “the real world” (sorry for all the “scare quotes”) to substantiate it. Not even to assuage or solve it, mind you. But to prove the feeling is correct.

They START with fear. They get out of bed with resentment and victimhood. Then they find “evidence” (from Bush, Rush, etc.) to confirm it.

That’s why your Malkins, your Confed. Yank-offs, etc., are so dogged and triumphant when they find an error in reporting or a Clinton-Lewinsky lie. It confirms their deeply unself-aware world view and encourages them to continue to ignore the rest of the entire fucking world–including the effects ON THEM of the policies they blindly/triumphantly support.

(/smarty pants)

YES BUT WE ARE WORKING ON A VERY GOOD SIMULATED HEAD-CUT-OFF DEVICE. IT’S A BIT RUDIMENTARY — SO FAR IT’S BASICALLY A GUILLOTINE WHERE THE BLADE FALLS NOISILY TO WITHIN A MILLIMETER OF YOUR NECK, WHILE A PROSTHETIC CHOPPED-OFF HEAD MADE TO LOOK LIKE YOURS IS TOSSED INTO THE BASKET YOU’RE STARING IT, STREAMING PIG’S BLOOD FROM THE NECK (NICE TOUCH, THE PIG’S BLOOD; WOGS HATE THAT), AND THEN HELD UP FOR YOU TO STARE INTO THE BUGGED-OUT EYES OF. EARLY RESULTS ARE FAVORABLE.

Why do wingnuts always assume it couldn’t happen to them?

When the Japs did it, they deserved to be hung for war crimes.

Since it is simply impossible for any American or the US goverment to commit a war crime, therefore it is not only legal, but a moral neccessity for the US to torture every brown person or liberal white person we can get our hands on!!!

And since the Inquisition was committed by white people (even though they spoke that devil toungue, Spanish), that waterboarding was not torture either. And niether was the Strappado (stress positions).

So when brown people do it to white people, it’s torture. When whtie people do it to brown people, it is NOT torture! There is no moral equivalence!

Even Gary Ruppert agrees with that one!!!1!!!1!!!!!!1!!!!!!