I was checking out Current TV, Al Gore’s user-generated-content media venture. And the first thing I saw on it was a video of a guy paying experts to waterboard him. Holy shit.
Sometimes I’m disturbed by my dispassion. This was probably one of those cases. I should not be resigned about this. This is something worth marching in the streets over. Why am I not out there? Why isn’t anyone else?
There was an okcupid test about “what role would you have played in Nazi Germany?” It said “you would think of your old Jewish friends from time to time, be a little sad and wonder what happened to them.” And at the time it stung. As someone who strives and at times sacrifices to avoid groupthink, that definitely stung. And yet, I wonder how inaccurate it is…
I’m too pragmatic to be a paladin. I will not pit myself against the current, I’ll just step out of the river. It’s a bit sad to think of myself that way, but that’s the reality of the situation.
Is there nothing for which you would get your feet wet? If so, that is truly sad.
I think he makes a point.
“Waterboarding” is a total euphemism – I don’t understand how drowning, while totally threatens someone’s life, can be even conceived of as a “legitimate interrogation technique”.
The US is in total violation of the Geneva Convention, and I just wish the UN would find some balls to sanction the US government and try US officials for war crimes.
But of course the US has refused to sign up to the International War Crimes Tribunal – in the full knowledge that they regular commit war crimes which they don’t want to take responsibility for.