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[trinityvixen]

I'm peacing out early from work since I didn't get lunch and the boss is gone anyway. In the mean time, please enjoy this righteous smackdown.

'It's not like people who engaged in torture ever ruined anyone's life, after all.'

I read this article in Newsweek and almost threw the whole magazine out after reading it. Basically, the author is appealing to history (man that's coming up a lot, lately) to point out that the Watergate scandal and the unrest of the nation as a result were really only calmed by President Ford'd pardon of Richard Nixon. May not have been popular, but in the end, it was wisest not to dwell. And that's what we should do with the people left over from the Bush years who, you know, waterboarded a few scumbags.

Yes, because spying on enemies and being a douche is exactly the same thing as torturing human beings and destroying our international cred.

There are times when you can remove the growth, do a biopsy, and find out the patient is fine. Then there are the cases where you have to go back into the room and give the frowny face, and go, "Mr. Uncle Sam, I'm afraid I've got good news and bad news. The bad news is you have cancer. The good news? We're going to blitz the shit out of every bad cell until they're all gone."

This is not a metaphor; this is reality. Sadly, No! Gets into it better than I. We have much the same reaction to THIS BULLSHIT, too.

(Incidentally, for all my furor, what really got me to toss out that Newsweek was the review of The Dark Knight. I only read as much as the title, which was not suffuse with praise, and decided this was not worth my time, nor the (very good) chance of it spoiling me for the movie. I'm going internets silent as best I can until OMFG TOMORROW when I see it. Strangely, I am seeing Mamma Mia! tonight with my sister. I...did not see that happening. Then again, the last time I got so excited for a movie coming out, it was Iron Man and my grandmother died and I didn't see that coming either. So I guess life is full of surprises.)

Comments

[avram]

That Newsweek article was written by a guy named Stuart Taylor Jr. I googled him to see what there was to see, and saw that someone got to his Wikipedia page and added an appropriate illustration. (Or look at this snapshot, in case it's been changed since.)

[chuckro.livejournal.com]

This sort of thing makes me wish Cubby read your journal. Or Sadlyno. Or anything that vaguely indicated Republicans didn't shit gold.

[wellgull.livejournal.com]

...they don't??

Then where does all their money come from?!

[wellgull.livejournal.com]

Okay, that's not exactly NPOV...

...but I sure ain't editing it out.



And for the record, pardoning Nixon was the wrong thing to do too!! I didn't see 68 nor 74, but if we HADN'T pardoned that scumbag, our house would be in much better order today.

[chuckro.livejournal.com]

Crime, mostly.

Contrary to popular opinion, it does, in fact, pay.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Too bad that got changed. It's dead accurate.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

It's the worse for the fact that he tries to make pardoning torturers seem so reasonable.