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mopaul Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-09-05 06:42 AM
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how bout' a t.v. reality show where they torture prisoners of war live?
why not? we've made a reality t.v. show about so many other phases of american life, why not the new acceptance of torture?

torture t.v., five nights a week in primetime with limited commercial interruptions, showing in graphic detail the humiliation and subjugation of inferior types of people from other nations, so that we can all get the same thrill of superiority and sadism that our leaders get when they order these atrocities and watch videos of them.

what? that would be too much? really? don't want your kids watching something like that? even though they may get the chance to torture or be tortured themselves someday soon.
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thebigidea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-09-05 06:47 AM
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1. not too much of a stretch from that "forced confession" show on Al-Whora
we're taking steps in that direction already on the Iraqi propaganda channel.
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mopaul Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-09-05 06:48 AM
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2. our tax $$$ pay for it, we should be able to see what we've bought
i seriously believe that millions would watch it gleefully.
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thebigidea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-09-05 06:50 AM
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3. get Murdoch on the line, we got ourselves a hit: FOX Videodrome Channel
Edited on Wed Nov-09-05 06:55 AM by thebigidea
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seemunkee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-09-05 07:02 AM
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4. Start with Libby
We know he's not telling the truth.
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ComerPerro Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-09-05 07:21 AM
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5. I can see it now: They call it "Fear Factor, Iraq edition"
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whatever4 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-09-05 07:35 AM
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6. and it would be so easy
No need for a set or actors, just a camera and a satellite feed. And the G.C. isn't a problem at all, so we can do any damn thing to them we want, right? It's what "they'd do to us", so that makes it okay, right? They're all "bad" people, so that makes it all right, RIGHT?

You'd think Americans wanting that would want to see "freedom on the march". You'd think they'd be proud of it. You'd think they'd want to see soldiers raping children in front of their fathers and mothers. The home invasions, chase scenes and shoot-outs ought to be right entertaining too. Handy tool to desensitize children, real blood, real bones breaking, real groans and screams, real live-at-five hatred in their eyes, toward everyone watching.

You do the hokey pokey and you turn yourself around
And that's what it's all about
yeah
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Burried News Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-09-05 07:38 AM
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7. But Senator Blowhard Bond R Missouri says there is no torture,
period. Nohow no way nowhere. And if you can't believe a suckface like this, who are you going to believe. Why you may as well believe the Catholic Church had pedophile priests.

Rot in hell Bond - you already look like the rotting process is half complete. Sorry excuse for a Senator - Durbin trashed you on the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. Come back for more when you can you vicious incompetent.

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mopaul Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-09-05 08:05 AM
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8. 'we don't torture', what a lie
how can the president stand up there and deny that we torture?
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Burried News Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-09-05 08:10 AM
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9. We don't torture BUT we can't talk about it because the al Qaeda
will know about our methods and train their troops to resist.
The locations must be secret. The methods must be secret. I guess it's black Ski Mask's for everyone.
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