Taken from How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Torture by John McNamer:
. . . plus the illegal invasions, the summary executions, and the surveillance state.
Why has it ever even bothered me that many thousands of people have been kidnapped and illegally rendered to CIA dark sites to be sometimes tortured to death or held for many years without any legitimate legal process?
That the use of "intelligence" information obtained from torture, well known to be mostly unreliable and useless, is now the norm for the supposedly civilized western nations of the world?
That the Nobel Peace Prize laureate Obama sits in weekly high-level meetings to examine a kill list of candidates to determine who will be the next "bug splat" on a video game screen, and then joke about how drones make him "really good at killing people?... Read More
