More Fractured Christmas Carols…

Yes, another couple of ditty’s from the folks at Coalition For a Democratic America-Dusty

OH COME ALL YE STUDENTS
Based on “Oh Come Little Children”
by PraetorOne
Oh Come all you students, oh come one and all
To see a recruiter in high school halls.
There slickly they lie for the Bush war machine
So eager, so ready, so dishonestly
They say it is nothing, just think of the pay
The hell of the desert is too far away
Just sign on these papers, we know who you are
We simply won’t tell you that you’re off too war
Now praise our dear Jesus, the young soldier sings
As death and destruction, the Bush regime brings
The shrub in the office, sees death and gets high
While wounded young soldiers ask why must we die?

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THE FAHRENHEIT 451 SOCIETY

By ABE and BIBLE BELTED

Does anyone remember a science fiction book titled Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury? We do. When some of us were growing up we read a lot of Bradbury and we feel that this particular book is especially prophetic.

For those of you who aren’t familiar with the plot line, it takes place in a futuristic society in which books have been banned, the written word has virtually been stamped out. So we’re talking about a society in which not only offensive or controversial literature has been eradicated, but a totalitarian regime in which ALL written material has been effectively banned. In this regime, the individuals responsible for “maintaining order” as it were are the firemen, who hunt down and burn surviving books from the past. That’s right. You read us correctly. The firemen in this society, often operating on anonymous tips, are the preservers of repression as they go about burning books to preserve the stability of their insane world.

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Siren’s fractured Christmas carols

We will be featuring one of Praetorone and Biblebelted’s Fractured Christmas Carol’s daily until Christmas..Enjoy!-Dusty

FRACTURED CHRISTMAS CAROLS
by Praetorone, BibleBelted, Donatra,SweetPea. DoctorWho, and SweetPea

T’WAS THE NIGHT BEFORE BLOOD SHED Based on “T’was The Night Before Christmas” New version by BibleBelted
T’was the night before bloodshed and all through the land
All the people were worried, but George played his hand
The lies had been told on the TV with care
In hopes all the suckers would sit there and scare
“We tried ev’ry option” but that wasn’t true
He wanted this war and we acted on cue
The Neocons eager, more power they crave
For Empire they gladly send boys to the grave

They said it’s for weapons, mushroom clouds in the sky
And they said it’s for freedom, but don’t question why
“We’ll topple a tyrant, we’ll bring Saddam down.”
Can’t anyone see that our Fuhrer’s a clown?
Disagree you’re a traitor, or so they all say
They go right on lying in the same goddamn way
Bring on Mister Powell, with charts and a graph
If it weren’t so outrageous I’d chuckle or laugh

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O’REILLY PROPOSES CHRISTMAS PROTECTION ACT

From the Coalition Press
By Praetorone and BibleBelted

WASHINGTON DC–In yet another attempt to both anger and polarize the American people along theo-political lines, former Right Wing Propagandist, Bill O’Reilly, in yet another attempt to “protect the Baby Jesus,” unveiled what the GOP calls the American Christmas Protection Act.

According to O’Reilly. the measure “has become necessary to keep uppity Jews, Muslims, and nonbelievers in their proper place. Grumbling on his increasingly irrelvent talk show, the self professed legend in his own mind openly condemned as un-American those who refuse to celebrate the Christmas Holiday in a religiously correct fashion.

“There’s a Reich way and a wrong way to celebrate this thing,” O’Reilly stammered. “And its time that we made a living hell for those who won’t share the love, joy, and peace of the season.”

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How the Shrub screwed Christmas: NOT

HOW THE SHRUB SCREWED CHRISTMAS: NOT
Based on HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS
by DOCTOR SEUSS ( AKA Theodor Geisel)
Parody Version by BibleBelted, PraetorOne, Matthew5, and DoctorWho

Every Blue
Up in Blue-ville
Loved Christmas a lot
But the Shrub
Who lived South of Blue-ville
Did NOT
The Shrub hated Christmas; and this was a reason
He hated the joy and the whole peaceful season.
It could be perhaps he loved pain and the fright
Or maybe his brain wasn’t working quite right
But I believe that the most likely reason of all
May have been that his conscience was no conscience at all.

But whatever the reason
The soul or his brain
He cursed through December, raising all kinds of Cain
Glaring up from DC with a mean Bushy smirk
He proved to the people that the Shrub was a jerk
Yes he knew every Blue up in Blue-ville above
Was now happily showing the peace and the love

“And they’ve taken my Congress,” he complained in a snit
“They’re praying for peace, they are so full of shit.”
Then he clawed with Bush talons, crazily drumming
“Stop democracy now, keep the freedom from coming.”

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The Christmas Wars: How the Radical Christian Right will again bastardize the Spirit of Christmas.

The Christmas Wars:
How the Radical Christian Right Will Again Bastardize the Spirit of Christmas

By BibleBelted, PraetorOne and Matthew5

“I am not going to let aggressive totalitarian and anti-Christian forces in this country diminish, denigrate, the holiday and the celebration. I’m gonna use all the power that I have on radio and television to bring horror into the world of people who are trying to do that..”

Bill O’Reilly trying to sound like a Christian, circa 2006

It seems as if the Radical Christian Right has stepped up its attack on America and mainstream Christianity by extending the Cultural War to include the words Happy Holidays; and while they may not realize it, they haven’t exactly done a lot to equate their battle cry of “Merry Christmas” with anything especially Merry or Christian either.

On the surface, the whole thing seems rather bizarre. Christ, after all, never politicized his religious teachings; and the last we knew, bringing horror into the world of concerned Americans who oppose a Christian Republic or a Fundamentalist theocracy isn’t exactly a Christian standard. So you just have to wonder: Why would the same professional misanthropes who so fervently complain about political correctness, want to demote the words “Merry Christmas” to the mere equivalent of right wing political war chant? Why would they want use Christmas, of all things, as an excuse to infuriate the American people at what they claim is the holiest time of the year?

First and foremost, we need to remember that this isn’t the first time that the Pseudo Christian Right has used Christmas as a weapon against its opponents.

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The 14 Characteristics of Fascism, Part 7

We present another in the series The 14 Characteristics of Fascism and how BushCo uses them.This is updated from the original series that ran on the Coalition for a Republican-Free America -Dusty

PART VII: OBSESSION WITH NATIONAL SECURITY
Essay I: Librarian Takes on Patriot Act: And Wins
By PraetorOne and BibleBelted
Editors’ Notes by Daniel and BibleBelted

This particular post was originally written on April 12, 2005. At the time we wrote it, we had no idea that it might actually qualify as an essay in a series about the Fourteen Characteristics of Fascism. Indeed, in April 2005, there was some doubt as to whether or not the Patriot Act would be renewed. As it turns out, President Bush, despite promises that he made in 2001 that such Draconian measures would be temporary, has now decided that they should be permanent, and the Patriot Act, with only minor amendments has been tragically approved.

Why does that not surprise us? The Neocon agenda has never been all that sympathetic to civil liberties. Indeed, it seems as if only one Senator, our own Russ Feingold from right here in the State of Wisconsin, was the only Senator who even bothered to read this right wing abomination. Had the other 99 Senators bothered to have done so they would have realized that the Patriot Act was nothing more than a wish list for just abut every repressive measure that the GOP has been hoping for since the Nixon Administration.

When you think about it, the legislation was produced rather quickly–too quickly– which tells me that it had been sitting on a back shelf somewhere waiting for the right opportunity to exploit.

In many ways this reminds me of what happened on 28 February 1933–the day after the Reichstadt Fire in Nazi Germany. Never one to let a good opportunity slip by, then Chancellor Hitler went to President Hindenburg, asking that the aged president sign a decree for the “Protection of the People and the State. To quote William L. Shirer’s masterpiece, THE RISE AND FALL OF THE THIRD REICH: A HISTORY OF NAZI GERMANY (1959-1960, Simon and Schuster), the decree stipulated that:

“… restrictions on personal liberty, on the right of free expression of opinion, including freedom of the press; on the rights of assembly and association; and violations of the privacy of postal, telegraphic, and telephonic communications; and warrants for house searches, orders for confiscations as well as restrictions on property, are also permissible beyond the legal limits otherwise prescribed.

“In addition, the decree authorized the Reich government to take complete power in the federal states when necessary and imposed the death sentence on a number of crimes, including ’serious disturbances of the peace’ by armed persons.”

Now where have we seen this before? A national tragedy being used as an excuse to limit civil liberties. Oh, Jeez. I don’t know. You think maybe it might be in the Bush administration and their Orwellian named Patriot Act?

Could be.

On the other hand, not all of the news is bad news. As a result of efforts liberty-loving librarians and a concerned American public, our elected officials may well drop the library related provisions in the Patriot Act–even if they haven’t quite risen to the level of true patriotism and decided to scrub the entire act and its misbegotten spawn, Patriot Act Part II. Here, fellow readers, is an example of a plucky little lady and how she defied actions which could have easily led to an invocation intellectual repression. Here is Brandon’s Post from 12 April 2005. It is called ….

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The 14 Characteristics of Fascism continued..

PART VI: CONTROLLED MASS MEDIA

“Our Wonderful Corporate Media.”
By PraeterOne and BibleBelted

Warner Brothers Pictures, Morgan Creek, New Regency, Warner Brothers Animation, a partial stake in Savoy Pictures, Little Brown & Co., Bullfinch, Back Bay, Time-Life Books, Oxmoor House, Sunset Books, Warner Books, the Book of the Month Club, Warner/Chappell Music, Atlantic Records, Warner Audio Books, Electra, Warner Brothers Records, Time-Life Music, Columbia House, a 40 percent stake in Seattle’s Sub-Pop Records, Time Magazine, In Style, Martha Stewart Living, Sunset, Asia Week, Parenting, Weight Watchers, Cooking Light, DC Comics, 49 percent of Six Flags Theme Parks, Movie World and Warner Brothers parks, HBO, Cinemax, Warner Brothers Television, partial ownership of Comedy Central, E!, Black Entertainment Television, Court TV, the Sega Channel, the Home Shopping Network, Turner Broadcasting, the Atlanta Braves and Atlanta Hawks, World Championship Wrestling, Hanna-Barbera Cartoons, New Line Cinema, Fine Line Cinema, Turner Classic Movies, Turner Pictures, Castle Rock Productions, CNN, CNN Headline News, CNN International, CNN/SI, CNN Airport Network, CNNfi, CNN radio, TNT, WTBS, and the Cartoon Network:

Those, according to Eric Alterman, in his 2003 book, What Liberal Media, are companies that were acquired by AOL when it acquired Time Warner.

Between AOL-Time Warner and the likes of Disney, Bertelsmann, the News Corporation, General Electric, Viacom, and Disney, the vast majority of everything we see and hear n the supposedly “liberal” mass media comes from only six–that’s right, six–mega media corporations. As I have suggested in previous posts and comments, this is why the media should be independently owned. All too often liberals believe that conservative media owners directly order journalists to cover or not to cover certain stories, when, in fact, the truth is a little more complicated than all that.

In the first place we need to understand that journalists have very little in common with your typical welfare recipient or elderly person who may need energy assistance to survive a northern state winter. According to sociologist David Croteau, “95 percent of elite journalists earned more than $50,000 a year, and 31 percent earned more than $150,000.” On other words, this often puts journalists in the same economic class as the right wing free market politicians who they are supposed to be covering.

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DA seeks the Death Penalty in Killer Baby Case

DA SEEKS DEATH PENALTY IN KILLER BABY CASE
From the Anal Retentive Press

by Praetor One

PHUQUEDUHP, ARKANSAS–Obadiah F. U. Wichanger, the newly elected District Attorney of Hellhole County, South Dakota announced today that his office would seek the death penalty in the case of little Johnny Gilchrist, the 9-month-old infant whose premature birth on December 25 of last year resulted in the death of the child’s mother, the late Helena K. Gilchrist, age 24. According to Kelli Fitzgerald. the elder Gilchrist’s gynecologist, the premature birth which began at the Gilchrist home and which was brought to its tragic conclusion at the Hellhole County Medical Center, resulted in an unexpected uterine hemorrhage which resulted in the mother’s untimely death.

In the weeks following Gilchrist’s demise, Wichanger, who had run for the position of DA on a pro life/pro execution platform and decided to bring a charge of Murder One against the unsuspecting infant. As a result, Baby Gilchrist, a racially mixed child, was subsequently tried at the Hellhole County Courthouse, where, after a week long trial, he was found guilty by an all white jury in less than two and a half minutes.

Appearing in his highchair only moments after his conviction, Baby Gilchrist offered the following statement: “Goo Goo Ga Ga,” gurgled Gilchrist. “WHAH! WHAH! WHAH!”

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The 14 Characteristics of Fascism, Part 4

Another in our series on the 14 Characteristics of Fascism and how the Republicans and BushCo in particular use them. -Dusty

PART IV: THE SUPREMACY OF THE MILITARY
Essay 2: The Recruitment of Skinheads, and Nazis
By BibleBelted

And to think there was a time when we thought the Bush Administration only anted to exploit the troops by using them as props, as propaganda tools whenever he wanted to boost his sagging approval ratings. Now we know differently. It isn’t only a matter of exploiting those troops who are truly honorable, but also a matter of attracting sadistic bullies, thugs, and hatemongers on the far right. Since this article was written in the summer of 2005 we have learned that the United States military, in an attempt to meet quotas, has lowered the bar and has been recruiting–of all things– criminals, addicts, and more chillingly, skinheads and Nazis.

According to the Southern Poverty Law Center the United States Military has now been infested with NeoNazis and skinheads who hope to use their military training here at home. How bad is it? The following quote comes from a right wing hate blog:

“Light infantry is your branch of choice because the coming race war and the ethnic cleansing to follow will be very much an infantryman’s war,” he wrote. “It will be house-to-house, neighborhood-by-neighborhood until your town or city is cleared and the alien races are driven into the countryside where they can be hunted down and ‘cleansed.”

Ask yourselves this: Can this be a coincidence? When you look at the Bush Administration’s attitude towards civil liberties, at the Administration’s almost obsessive desire to know what every American is doing at almost any time, and it’s basic contempt for the Constitution, is it really too hard to believe that the Administration secretly approves of goons like the one who I quoted above? Granted, the Administration isn’t as flamboyant as the Skin Heads or the Aryan Nation, but when you look at some of their policies the similarities are indeed stunning.

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HISTORY MAY BE REPEATING ITSELF:

PROPAGANDA THEN AND NOW
By PraetorOne and BibleBelted

Throughout the summer of 1938 the Nazi propaganda machine cranked out a steady stream of outright prevarications about Czech persecutions in the Sudetenland. “The German newspapers were filled with accounts of mass arrests of innocent men and women in the Sudetenland and there were the inevitable circumstantial stories ‘by our correspondent.’ Nonexistent people in nonexistent villages were being slaughtered. The Czechoslovak Government attempted to refute some of these stories and gave up in despair. Hitler ordered a massive propaganda barrage against Czechoslovakia to prepare the German people for the October invasion.” [1]

As we all know, however, the Sudetenland proved to be another one of Hitler’s bloodless conquests, and when the German warlord absorbed the rest of Czechoslovakia in yet another bloodless conquest, that conquest was preceded by yet another wave of outright prevarications from Goebbels and the Nazi propaganda machine. “early in March, 1939, the banner headlines directed against the diminished Czechoslovakia increased in frenzy and virulence. ‘German Blood Flows,’ ‘Unheard of Provocations,’ ‘German Honor Defamed,’ ‘Czechs on the Rampage!’–such were the headlines followed by long circumstantial reports of rapes, shootings, and arrests of innocent Germans on the orders of a depraved Czech government. The French Ambassador to Berlin, Francois-Poncet, noted with dismay that Goebbels had been less imaginative that usually: he had simply dusted off early accounts of Austrian and Czech provocations and changed place names and the names of victims.” [2]

How bad was it? At various times Doctor Goebbels had whipped up fictitious news stories about a “pregnant German woman struck down by Czech beasts and the general ‘Blutbad’ (’blood bath’) to which defenseless Germans were being subjected by the Czech barbarians. Hitler could assure the proud German people that these kinsman would not remain unprotected for long.” [3] In other words, the Nazi Warlord was psychologically preparing the German people for a war with Czechoslovakia.

So what does that have to do with anything? Well, dear readers, it appears to us as if the Bush Propaganda machine has adopted the same strategies in so far as it is attempting to psychologically prepare the American people for an invasion–or at least a bombing–of Iran. But just as Doctor Goebbels couldn’t find new and creative ways to prepare the German people for a war with Czechoslovakia, so it appears as if the Bush Administration can’t find new rhetoric to support a war with yet another Mid Eastern country. Indeed, the Bush administration, in its clumsy, amateurish effort to prepare us for yet another protracted conflict has merely dusted off rhetoric that was used during the run-up to the invasion of Iraq and substituted different personal names and names of places.

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I KNOW! LET’S BAN THE CREATIVE WORKS OF GAYS AND LESBIANS

Parody by Praetorone, writing as…well, you’ll find out.

After careful consideration I have come to the conclusion that we need to back the Christian Right in its holy crusade to criminalize homosexuality. The Bible, after all, talks about Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve, and if we want to be perfectly honest and devout, we must openly admit that the Bible not only demands that we “be fruitful and multiply,” it also prescribes the death penalty for homosexual acts.

But while the Christian Right is content to ban gay marriage, gay civil unions, gay adoption, and equal employment opportunities for gays and lesbians, I believe we must remove the artistic and literary expressions of gays and lesbians from our institutions of learning.

We might, for example, purge our educational institutions of the words and ideas of Socrates and Aristotle–ditto to the writings of Julius Caesar. Not only did these individuals engage in homosexual acts, they were also Pre-Christian Pagans. Do we really want to expose innocent grade school, high school, and college students to the demented writings of Pre-Christian heathens and perverts? I think not!

In a similar vein, we might ban recreations of artistic creations by Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo. Indeed, to prevent the reintroduction of their works into our classrooms, might even go so far as to destroy the original works themselves. What a glorious day it will be when we burn the original copy of da Vinci’s “Last Supper” and take the wrecking ball to the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, I know, I know, this would involve the destruction of important Christian/artistic icons, but in many ways, creations such as these violate the Biblical prohibitions against idolatry, and, by the same token, we don’t want to leave our children with the erroneous idea that gays and lesbians are in in way talented or creative.

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The 14 Characteristics of Fascism, Part 3

ESSAY II:
RACIAL PROFILING: CODE WORD FOR RACISM
By PraetorOne and Biblebelted

In the 1960s Lyndon B Johnson incurred the wrath of Conservative Southern Democrats by supporting the civil rights movement; specifically the Voting Rights Act. Admittedly, Johnson was a piece of self-centered work, a flawed, even power hungry individual (though a rank amateur when compared to George W. Bush), but his stand against right wing bigots was an honorable and a productive one. Few pieces of legislation have been as effective and as beneficial as the Voting Rights Act. And what was the Republican response? In the years after the Johnson Presidency, Richard M. Nixon and his merry band of authoritarian cronies decided that they would play the proverbial race card and divide the south along racial lines. In a stunning display of bigotry, the party of Lincoln decided to embrace hate-mongering, southern racists and religious fanatics who had routinely stood in the way of equal rights for Black Americans.

Now fast forward to August 2006. Only hours after Great Britain thwarted a pending terrorist attack, the right wing bigots on AM hate radio and the Reich Propaganda Cable bands were advocating–get this–a policy of racial profiling for Muslims. Allow me to repeat that: a policy of racial profiling for Muslims.

Call me naive, but isn’t that a little like trying to use a fly swatter to diagnose a case of Scarlet fever?

Will somebody–anybody–please be so kind as to tell the incompetents who compose this Administration that Muslims come in all varieties and colors, from the very liberal Sufis, to the very repressive Fundamentalists; to the very white to the very dark; and everything in between? Indonesian Muslims probably tend to be Asians. European Muslims probably tend to be white. Many American Muslims are probably black. And those are–at the very best–the broadest of generalizations. There are as many shades of Islam as there are Muslims. Like Christianity, Islam is a global religion, there are adherents in every country on the face of the earth. But for some reason, right wing pundits like Bill O’Reilly, Rush Limbaugh, and Sean Hannitty assume (incorrectly) that if we profile young males ages 16 to whatever with brown skin that we will win the war on terrorism.

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The 14 Characteristics of Fascism Part 3, Essay 1

Part 3 of our continuing series, the 14 Characteristics of Fascism and how they apply to the Rethugs and BushCo in particular.

Part III: Identifying Scapegoats

Essay 1
(Distorted Facts: The Cultural War Against Gays )
By Daniel (SweetPea)

SECTION 1

During the 1920s and 1930s the world learned that when sociopathic leaders, such as Adolf Hitler,were megalomaniacal to put their insane ideas in print, the world should wake up and listen. Today I would humbly suggest that the same holds true for public statements made by megalomaniacal religious leaders on the far right. If we don’t wake up and both, listen, and infer the lessons from the past, we may not only lose our Constitution and our freedom. Some of us may well lose our lives.

Execution Mania

If we take the Holy Bible at face value there are anywhere from ten, to eighteen, to twenty-three capital offenses. They are as follows:Murder (Exodus 21:12, Exodus 21:15); Murder (Exodus 21:12, Exodus21:15); Kidnapping (Exodus 21:16); Disobedience to parents (Exodus 21:17, Deuteronomy 21:18); Juvenile delinquency - incorrigibility (Deuteronomy 21:18-21); Bestiality (Leviticus 20:15); Violations of the Sabbath (Exodus 31:15); Adultery (Leviticus 20:10); Abominations (Leviticus 20:2); Blasphemy (Leviticus 24:16); Incest (Leviticus 20:11); Homosexuality (Leviticus 20:13); Witchcraft (Exodus 22:18, Leviticus 20:27); False prophecy (Deuteronomy 13:5); Worshiping a false god (Deuteronomy 13:6-10); Sacrificing to false gods (Exodus 22:20); Sodomy (Leviticus 18:22, Leviticus 20:13); Sex with a woman betrothed to another (Deuteronomy 22:25); False witness in a capital crime (Deuteronomy 19:16-20); Fornication by daughters of priests (Leviticus 21:9); Failure to abide by a decision of the High Court
(Deuteronomy 17:12); Unchastity (Deuteronomy 22:21-24); Cursing someone (Leviticus 24:14); Negligence resulting in death (Exodus 21:29).

Wow! That’s quite a list, but whether like it or not the truth of the matter is that there are pastors, laity, and members of congregations who seriously believe that the above list of capital crimes should indeed result in executions if the perpetrator is found guilty. Consider the remarks that follow:

“Brute beasts … part of a vile and satanic system [that] will be utterly annihilated, and there will be a celebration in heaven.”
Jerry Falwell On homosexuals, as quoted in The Bible Tells Me So, 1996 [2]

“I’ve never seen a man in my life I wanted to marry. And I’m gonna be blunt and plain: if one ever looks at me like that, I’m gonna kill him and tell God he died.”
The Reverend Jimmy Swaggart in a September 2004 evangelism television broadcast [3]

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THE 14 CHARACTERISTICS OF FASCISM Pt.2

PART 2 DISDAIN FOR THE RECOGNITION OF HUMAN RIGHTS

(Is George W. Bush a Sociopath?)
By PraetorOne (Brandon)

Will someone please explain how George W. Bush can call himself a Christian and still endorse torture as a legitimate tool of American foreign policy? Will someone please tell us how a purported believer in the teachings of Jesus Christ can behave so brutally and unethically, and still claim that he he is a man of virtue. a compassionate conservative? The last we knew Jesus didn’t advocate the twin perversions of torture and sadism, and yet, for reasons which defy imagination, Bush and his merry band of sexual sadists are perfectly willing to crawl into the gutter with societies such as Iran, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union, and the Peoples Republic of China as they make a mockery out of both, decency and Western civilization.
Ironically, American torture techniques are derived from methods used by the KGB. They include sensory deprivation and self-inflicted torture; black bags over the victim’s head to maintain disorientation; forcing the victim to stand on his or feet for days on hand with his or her arms stretched out at his or her sides. That may not sound disturbing, but the end results are horrific. Fluid builds into the legs, sores break out, the kidneys begin to fail. Then add fear, threats, cultural humiliation, personal intimidation, and….well, you get the idea.

Of course, he ultimate irony in all of this is that torture really doesn’t work. The weak will offer false information to end the pain and the strong will be ale to resist, offering either silence or false information in defiance of their persecutors.

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