The Republican-controlled House and Senate have just legalized torture. The
bill that was passed, and that psycho Bush will undoubtedly sign (cuz he came
up with the idea in the first place), is basically the legalization of torture,
detentions without due process of law, secret detention, and just about
anything else the Bushies have already been doing illegally all along anyway.
The
violent sleeze just never stops with the Bush clan. Sen. Arlen Spector
(R-Pennsylvania) said it will turn America back 900 years, and then he voted
for it!
The so-called "maverik Republicans," Lindsay Graham, John McCain, etc, all
voted for legalizing torture. While most countries that practice torture won't
even admit that they are doing it, the Bush administration has basically
spearheaded the movement to legalize it, including miedeval barbarism such as
water
boarding right up to modern methods like sensory deprivation and stress
positions. I can only echo the lyrics to Black Sabbath's song "War Pigs," "Wait
'till
their judgement day comes."
Democrats fought the bill, unsuccessfully, with amendments, and most
voted against it. It is believed that the ones that voted for it did so out of
fear that the Republicans would use it against them in upcoming close election
races (the same way they did against Max Cleland (D-Georgia) to defeat him).
I disagree with the strategy-- I say if the crazies want to legalize torture,
fight them all the way, then use it against the Republicans! I agree with Sen.
Tom Harkin who, at a local liberal political fest, said that in an election
he always goes offensive, never defensive. ==-==--= om=-=-=- Nick
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