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8:56:00 PM Torture

Yep I'm gonna jump on the Extraordinary Rendition bandwagon. See theres this thing that has been going on for a while now, that actually was codified under Clinton, where we are able to torture people by simply moving them into other countries where torture isn't illegal. Take the case of Maher Arar, a Canadian citizen who was swept up into a United States terror dragnet and then extradidted to Syria and tortured for a year before bring brought back home after it turned out he was 100% innocent of all charges and would not have anything to contribute to any investigation. Nice.

There are bills in front of congress to stop this from ever happening again. Even the local paper has written about this. I can't find any articles or commentary about this on any conservative websites such as Townhall.com but I'm sure the argument would go something like this website suggests: 9/11 MEANS THE GLOVES HAVE COME OFF.

My response: You all are so damn typical. First it was IT jobs and now you want to outsource torture too? wtf!

In any case no, 9/11 doesn't mean the gloves have come off. It was wrong during WWII to have Japanese concentration camps and its wrong to bend the rules now in the name of fighting THIS war too.

And now they are trying to hide the legalization of this practice in the worst of all places. A 9/11 Intelligence Reform Bill. I'd like to meet the heartless fucker who decided to try to sneak THAT one into the bill. I'm sure his thoughts were "if it passes, we win, if it doesn't pass and people argue against it I can then charge them with being unpatriotic and voting against a 9/11 intelligence reform bill and then we still win!" Read the vile and dispickable Washtingon Times if you don't believe me. I figure if you can believe anyone about this actually happening its words from the mouth of the very place you would least expect to hear it.

This torturing thing wouldn't scare me so much if it wasn't for the fact that if the government wanted to, right now they could legally detain me, not tell anyone, not let me speak with a lawyer and then extradite me to another country and torture me for as long as they felt and all the while they can read through all of my medical, financial, and fucking library book reading list while Lynndie England gives me the thumbs up.

Now, thousands of us picked up the phone and called to SAVE BETAMAX OMG (myself included), will we have the balls to phone our representatives about THIS before they torture them from our bodies?

Current Mood: WTF MATE.

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Just to balance things out here's something cute and fluffy. :)
Posted by Walter [H] on 09.29.2004 at 9:13 pm

We also need to call and tell the representatives to vote against the Marriage Protection Amendment. They represent us, right? So we gotta tell them what to do.
Posted by Indi [H] on 09.30.2004 at 1:46 pm

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