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spinbaby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-20-06 11:58 AM
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Pick Your Favorite Homoerotic Torture Technique (Ted Rall)
NEW YORK--Right-wing Republicans are weird. When gays and lesbians want to marry and raise kids in the suburbs, the right-wingers freak out. "Perverts!" they scream at these bland strivers. But when supposedly straight soldiers in the army, marines and CIA engage in male-on-male rape and other acts of homosexual sadism so bizarre and extreme they turn off the average, gay-marriage-craving civilian, Republican legislators think it's the best thing ever.
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The U.S. government's Boys Gone Wild, terrified that the courts could force them to fork over millions of dollars to their victims, buy torture insurance from the Arlington, Virginia-based Wright & Co. for $300 a year. If Americans ever come to their senses, however, our homotorturers could also face prison sentences. That's why George W. Bush wants to legalize the CIA's "alternative interrogation techniques" prohibited by the Geneva Conventions and the laws of 192 of the world's 193 nations. (The Pacific island of Nauru, which hasn't gotten around to ratification, might be a good spot to set up another "secret site.")

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ThomWV Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-20-06 12:01 PM
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1. Nauru - Republican stronghold?
Its the only thing that comes to mind other than a nation so laidback that it simply doesn't care. Not likely ....
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KurtNYC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-20-06 12:08 PM
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2. Rape is not sex -- torture is not gay
I object to the implication that rape/torture are somehow in a range of gay behavior or that they are part of continuum which has marriage on one end and torture on the other. So much for enlightenment.
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