"US opinion split over torture" by Linda Heard (4-29-09 Online Journal)

bobthedrummer

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Wed Apr-29-09 01:02 PM
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"US opinion split over torture" by Linda Heard (4-29-09 Online Journal)

"By publishing the so-called 'torture memos' and indicating a willingness to release photographs of detainee abuse, US President Barack Obama has split public opinion.

There are those who believe torture not only denigrates the tortured but also the torturer, while others are prepared to shred their moral compass in the name of potentially saving their own skin."

http://www.onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_4642.shtml

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Doctor_J

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Wed Apr-29-09 04:55 PM
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1. Yes, so is US opinion on evolution, UFOs, and whether Smirk was a lousy president

that doesn't mean one side is sane.

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november3rd

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Wed Apr-29-09 05:08 PM
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2. I'm too chicken to even read about it

I used to think of myself as a bold Progressive, but once I started taking in the gory details of covert detainment and interrogation in the So-called War On Terror (S.C.W.O.T.) I'm turning back into a sports fan. Now I skip over the National news, the international news and the Business Page, and just read the box scores.

I'm so terrorized by anti-terrorism that I just wanna go eat soma in a brave new world and watch a good movie on my new ipod! This fix reality business is too taxing for my nerves.

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bobthedrummer

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Thu Apr-30-09 01:01 PM
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4. I'm one of many citizens that were harmed by politicized black budget domestic ops from the Nixon

era, apparently "system maintenance" is considered more important than human beings when it comes to domestic black ops/extrajudicial organizations/and literal politicized US death squads that have become more sophisticated throughout the decades.

It's not tinfoil.

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santamargarita

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Wed Apr-29-09 05:47 PM
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3. Opinions are like assholes, every Republican is one...

did I say that right?

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