Under torture you are as if under the dominion of those grasses that produce visions. Everything you have heard told, everything that you have read returns to your mind, as if you were being transported, not toward heaven, but toward hell.
Umberto Eco, Italian writer and literary scholar
Anything They Say has excellent post on what a lot of double talk the ban on torture really is. I encourage you to read it if you believe that the Bush gang has backed down on anything. What is disappointing is that John McCain looked like a hero when really he is just a slimy politician too.
Robert Kennedy Jr. wrote an interesting historical piece on torture in the Los Angeles Times Saturday Opinion section, which set America apart from our enemies from the very beginning.
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I gather the latest scandal is that the Bush administration has admitted evesdropping on phone conversations and e-mails of US residents, without authorization from either a court or Congress. What a scarey bunch these guys are!
Q
Q, what is really scarey is that Bush is defending his position of spying on residents. This gang is bad news all the way around.
He really does make it hard to defend anything he does. So much is indefensible.
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