When it comes to moral and ethical politics, elected officials who say one thing and do another or take two contradictory positions are legion in Washington. Never before has a political movement tried to live out such contradictions as the political left in America today. There is perhaps no better image of proclaiming and believing two opposing views than Barack Hussein Obama.
Since taking office, the President has dismantled most every barrier erected by former presidents for making abortion rare. This week as he ponders the politics of a nominee to replace Supreme Court Justice David Souter, President Obama has made plain that he will appoint a pro-abortion lawyer.
On the other side of the ethical arena, the President has called for closing Guantanamo Bay and exposing our interrogation techniques to bring such actions to an end. All of this in the name of civil rights, of acting human to our fellow man. Why is this an issue? First, these men are NOT prisoners of war and should not be afforded the rights of such under the Geneva Convention. Second, they are NOT US citizens and should not be afforded the rights of such under the Constitution. They are terrorists and, like the pirates off Somalia's coast, should be shot.
Innocent life gets every protection possible under law removed leaving it naked against a hostile world. Those guilty of atrocities against our nation get protections awarded to them beyond our law leaving them more armed and more equipped to blend into the society they so loathe.
We must extend the protections of humanity toward the innocent toward the defenseless. We must do everything in our power to bring the .45 caliber end of justice upon those who unleash their hatred upon American soil or Americans abroad. But in today's political Wonderland, we're giving aid and comfort to the enemy.
Showing posts with label Torture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Torture. Show all posts
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Saturday, May 2, 2009
Torture
Thanks to the handful of you that responded to the taxation poll, now removed. It looked like your standard bell curve. Same tax for all and a progressive percentage on the fringes but most favoring the same percentage for all. I wanted you to know I hadn't forgotten my promise to finish my taxing discussion. In time. Torture's the topic du jour. For you lassies, I'd particularly like your man-folk to read what follows.
I would love to provide you my own arguments regarding torture, but when someone else who writes tons better than you do pretty well blankets the topic in one succinct column, I'd simply be quoting that guy left and right. To that end, I commend to you Charles Krauthammer's superb take on torture here.
One aspect I'd like to emphasize: word's mean things. You see, my idea of torture does not constitute torture. One evening of MSNBC with Olbermann following Maddow following Matthews would be enough to get me to hand over bank account numbers and what remains of my IRAs. I can't much stomach Greta and she's on Fox. Having to sit through what vied for Best Picture at this year's Oscars might do it, too, though I have heard good things about Slumdog Millionaire. Not much else.
Nonetheless, none of these assaults against humanity constitute torture. Neither does commode flushing the Koran. Nor heaping Muslims into a sodomite pile.
The torture of John McCain is not the "enhanced interrogation" of Gitmo terrorists (oops, detainees...oops, not-quite-yet-citizens-of-the-US). Thirty years ago when someone spoke of torture, bodily damage came to mind. Dislocated shoulders and broken arms. Bamboo shoots 'neath the fingernails. Psychological techniques intended to destroy the mind. Much of what was unleashed upon Americans by North Korea and North Vietnam (what's up with the North? Their giving us Al Franken, too.) was punitive in nature. Sure if they could get a little info, too, that was just gravy on the rice, but oh, the joy of unleashing one's full wrath upon the western imperialists.
Such hellishness is not our way. Were the techniques of Gitmo made plain to Hanoi Hilton survivors, they would, to a man I surmise, have preferred to be in the hands of American interrogators.
That said, the questioning techniques preferred by Nancy, Hillary, Harry, and the rest of the Oprah rabble wouldn't get Rachel Ray to cough up a new recipe. So, to get a good take on torture, stop reading my ramblings and go treat your mind to Krauthammer.
UPDATE: From my Facebook page (what a geek!). An article, similar content by Thomas Sowell (here). Another guy who few can say it better than. Worth your five minutes. My two cents.
I would love to provide you my own arguments regarding torture, but when someone else who writes tons better than you do pretty well blankets the topic in one succinct column, I'd simply be quoting that guy left and right. To that end, I commend to you Charles Krauthammer's superb take on torture here.
One aspect I'd like to emphasize: word's mean things. You see, my idea of torture does not constitute torture. One evening of MSNBC with Olbermann following Maddow following Matthews would be enough to get me to hand over bank account numbers and what remains of my IRAs. I can't much stomach Greta and she's on Fox. Having to sit through what vied for Best Picture at this year's Oscars might do it, too, though I have heard good things about Slumdog Millionaire. Not much else.
Nonetheless, none of these assaults against humanity constitute torture. Neither does commode flushing the Koran. Nor heaping Muslims into a sodomite pile.
The torture of John McCain is not the "enhanced interrogation" of Gitmo terrorists (oops, detainees...oops, not-quite-yet-citizens-of-the-US). Thirty years ago when someone spoke of torture, bodily damage came to mind. Dislocated shoulders and broken arms. Bamboo shoots 'neath the fingernails. Psychological techniques intended to destroy the mind. Much of what was unleashed upon Americans by North Korea and North Vietnam (what's up with the North? Their giving us Al Franken, too.) was punitive in nature. Sure if they could get a little info, too, that was just gravy on the rice, but oh, the joy of unleashing one's full wrath upon the western imperialists.
Such hellishness is not our way. Were the techniques of Gitmo made plain to Hanoi Hilton survivors, they would, to a man I surmise, have preferred to be in the hands of American interrogators.
That said, the questioning techniques preferred by Nancy, Hillary, Harry, and the rest of the Oprah rabble wouldn't get Rachel Ray to cough up a new recipe. So, to get a good take on torture, stop reading my ramblings and go treat your mind to Krauthammer.
UPDATE: From my Facebook page (what a geek!). An article, similar content by Thomas Sowell (here). Another guy who few can say it better than. Worth your five minutes. My two cents.
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