The US "war on terrorism" would be far more credible if the US didn't partner with terrorists every chance it had. From Cubans in the 1960s, to Contras in the 1980s as well as the Mujahadeen Jihadis, to present-day relationships with MEK on the Iranian border, the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, whom the US/NATO just installed in power there, to the Free Syrian Army which is terrorizing and rampaging that nation daily and engaging in ethnic cleansing and mass murder, the US foreign policy record is one of supporting terrorist networks. It plays dirty, ugly games "in the shadows" and most of the world outside its borders knows this full well.
That's a story worth telling. Not this self-serving CIA jingoistic propaganda about the white man's burden to torture all comers for the alleged good of the world. What would Osama bin Laden have revealed at a trial? What relationships and contacts would have come to light? Who protected him all those years? We will never know, but can dance around like chimpanzees that he was murdered in cold blood, and his secrets neatly wrapped up and disposed of.
Torture is a felony. It also produces bogus information. Sometimes that's the intent. Oftentimes that's the intent. When people say what you tell them to say, it's quite useful. Saddam Hussein ordered the 9/11 attacks, don't you know?
The practice of torture also implicates the torturers in crimes, creating a conspiracy of silence -- yes real conspiracy, conspiracy fact, not "theory." Check the statute. The conspiracy reaches all the way to the top, and today that means right to the desk of one Barack Hussein Obama. By protecting torturers, Obama becomes part of the conspiracy to torture. That is how the law works -- for the little people anyway. A two-tiered system of laws is what this exposes, one law for the political masters, and one law for everyone else. That is conspiracy. It violates the Constitution's Eighth Amendment, as well as the Convention Against Torture, the Geneva Conventions and the US Code section 2340A above.
It's long past time to restore the rule of law in this country, and to impeach those who commit ongoing crimes, including cover-up, hiding crimes from the congress, and conspiracy to torture prisoners of war. A lot of honorable individuals in the FBI, the military and even inside the CIA itself have protested this criminal activity in the strongest possible terms. Not everyone is on board this highway to hell, this descent to medieval barbarism championed by some criminal elements who should be prosecuted a.s.a.p.
I'm not a religious person, but I am a member of the National Religious Campaign Against Torture ( nrcat.org ). They organize lobbying campaigns to remind the people in charge that we are watching. It's easy to join. It's harder to get through the thick skulls of the pro-torture faction in this country, the propagandists and apologists who intend to deceive and degrade us all. I am sickened by this torture fad that civilized people must stand up and reject vociferously.
Reject along with it the Hollywood propaganda that promotes it, including Zero Dark Thirty, and Fox's 24. Torture is presented by Hollywood as a good thing nine times out of ten, and producers and screenwriters are morally and ethically responsible for these heinous lies that they tell their viewers. Hold them accountable too. Call out their sadism and criminality.
Arrest all torturers, lest we become a nation of depraved psychopaths.
"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing."
-Edmund Burke
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