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Impassioned Pleas Against Torture

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Posted on Sep 27, 2006
Anti-torture speakers
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Watch as a succession of former military officers, intelligence experts and religious figures speak out at a Capitol Hill forum against the president’s torture bill.

(Via Andrew Sullivan)

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By Anchorite, November 6, 2006 at 7:44 pm Link to this comment
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I vaguely remember reading some sort of socratic piece on torturer and torturee.  A law that loosens restraint, loads a burden on these guys here in the video.  THEY don’t want to be the clampers and the burners.  Look to them for a sincere counter-argument.  It is their souls being ratified onto Hell.

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By Scott Lewis, September 29, 2006 at 11:17 am Link to this comment
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Scott Lewis here, just back from Clearwater.
It wasn’t The Most Blessed Virgin Mary on the tortilla, it was just that sniveling panty-waste Jesus Christ.  Blessed are the meek?  I mean, come on.  I’ts commie rat-bastards like Him that waterboarding and anal rape were invented for.  He isn’t even qualified to be a water-boy in the locker room of life.  And one time I prayed to him for a banana split and he couln’t even do that.  This is the clown that’s gonna save the world?  I hope and pray to George Bush that if they get their hands on Jesus they show that nancy-boy who’s really in charge!

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By nate the giant nerd, September 28, 2006 at 7:27 pm Link to this comment
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r. buckminster fuller for president, because one dead genius is worth at least 10,000 politicians.

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By Jon, September 28, 2006 at 7:24 pm Link to this comment
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Often time Bush mouthforming “value; human rights, rule of law, dignity….......”, this torture bill forcefully flush down the christian value down the drain.

I wonder if people outside of US would give a damn to McCain’s painful experience in Vietname and his vote FOR torture.

One wonders why Bush didn’t send his two lovely daughters to the frontline to fulfil his dad’s noble mission.

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By Sindy Peehand, September 28, 2006 at 7:50 am Link to this comment
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Torture has been a part of “Humanity” since the beginning of time. You will never “Vote it out”. You are a fool if you think you can choose one person that can eradicate torture. Why are you all a bunch of Pollyanna’s?

You guys don’t get it. All political leaders are not worth your vote. Do you really think you will find someone that will be your political savior?

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By Jeanne, September 28, 2006 at 5:29 am Link to this comment
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I’d like to see those quotes put on bus benches, billboards, the back of milk cartons, on the sides of trucks, on barns, shirts, coffee mugs, you get the picture. If the doorknobs in congress don’t get the value of protecting the rights of all people then they should be faced with those quotes EVERYDAY and EVERY WHERE.

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By Scott Lewis, September 28, 2006 at 1:37 am Link to this comment
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Why do fundamentalist christian republicans embrace and enjoy and politically support anal intercourse when it is forced but not when it is consentual?

That’s an honest question folks.
I can’t even guess at the answer.

Maybe their bibles tell them that a man shall not lieth with another man ... unless he gets to be the top, and only if it is forced.
Apparently rape is a family value and a biblical imperative.

Remember now, you are only gay if you’re playing “catcher”, and god wants you to bust that A-rabs ass anyway.  Jesus even wants you to enjoy it, as long as that faggot towel-head is crying like an alter boy.

Gotta run, I just heard that a vision of the Blessed Virgin, Mary (Queen of Heaven) has been spotted on a tortilla in Clearwater, Florida.  I need to get there before all them wetbacks and Mariele boatlifters beat me to her!  Those guys will eat anyone!

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By Vierotchka, September 28, 2006 at 12:07 am Link to this comment
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Bush, being the devout Christian that he pretends to be, should use this variant of the Golden Rule: Torture others as you would have them torture you.

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By cognitorex, September 27, 2006 at 5:42 pm Link to this comment
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CUT and RUN ON FREEDOM: GOP’S NEW PLAN

I was upset, fearful and angry reading the recent National Intelligence Estimate about increasing terrorism and the sad state of our international relations when I burst out laughing.
Jumping to mind was the neocon’s perverted sales’ pitch: “The terrorists hate us because they hate freedom.”
What if that was true?
The GOP leadership we presently enjoy promotes secrecy, dishonesty, suspension of habeas corpus and other fundamental juridical rights; they promote wholesale wiretapping without warrants and suspending historical “Rules of War” agreements so that America can, on its whim, perform inhumane and degrading acts of torture on whomsoever we may choose to incarcerate.
One or two more stolen elections plus a new gaggle of lies from Dick, Condi et al and poof, our freedoms will be gone and the terrorists, seeing that their main reason to hate us has vanished, well. They’ll just go back to berating womenfolk for racy clothing.
It’s a plan, you’all. It’s a plan.

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By BigCynic.com, September 27, 2006 at 3:37 pm Link to this comment
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Yes, but where are the prominent Democrats saying things like “Americans do NOT torture. Period!” or “America cannot torture and be a moral beacon to the rest of the world”—you know, the sorts of things Republicans would say if Clinton had called for a bill like that.

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By Crystal, September 27, 2006 at 12:10 pm Link to this comment
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This is some amazing words to be taken to deepest consideration by those that govern us.
Vote torture out in November.

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By lewis shugar, September 27, 2006 at 10:00 am Link to this comment
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About torture:

Every form of torture imagineable should first
be tried out on GWB ( shrub ) to see if he approves of it.

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