Two Things
I might be behind the curve on this, but the Abu Ghraib Prison abuse issue is on my mind. Reading about it in Newsweek actually gave me the chills and a little nausea. How can people be like that? This is worse than your worst comic book bad guy. Comic books writers would be afraid to admit this type of behavior in any way, if they even could imagine it. I have a hard time admitting it even happened. I would much prefer to pretend that torture of this kind is not humanly possible. It shouldn’t surprise me, but it does every time. I am reminded that humanity has no moral bottom. We are our own worse demons. What is the worse thing you can
imagine doing to another person? Rape? Burning? Cutting? Drugging? Raping and killing their daughter in front of them? All these things and much, much worse happen every fucking day. And don’t delude your self into thinking that they were doing this torture to Terrorists with information, as if that would make it okay. Many of the prisoners were common criminals in for car jacking and rape.
Here is one that we killed with torture and loved it! Oh! It's soo much FUN! And my hands stayed clean!
And the second thing: just as shocking though not as immoral. According to a poll something like 47% of Americans even opened a book in 2003. And that is down from ten years ago, so they expect it to go even lower in the future. Book publishing is way up, breaking records in fact, but there are much less people to read them. (I can’t find the article anymore, so look it up yourself if you don’t believe me.) I was thinking that everybody read The DaVinci Code, but no. If everyone who does read, read it, it would be half of the people you know, but most of them wouldn’t read that crap. What are these people doing instead, sleeping? TV, movies and video games aren’t good enough to fill all your nonworking, nonsleeping hours. I don’t understand.
And number three: I bought the Deluxe Edition Spider-Man movie today. Awesome!
imagine doing to another person? Rape? Burning? Cutting? Drugging? Raping and killing their daughter in front of them? All these things and much, much worse happen every fucking day. And don’t delude your self into thinking that they were doing this torture to Terrorists with information, as if that would make it okay. Many of the prisoners were common criminals in for car jacking and rape.
Here is one that we killed with torture and loved it! Oh! It's soo much FUN! And my hands stayed clean!
And the second thing: just as shocking though not as immoral. According to a poll something like 47% of Americans even opened a book in 2003. And that is down from ten years ago, so they expect it to go even lower in the future. Book publishing is way up, breaking records in fact, but there are much less people to read them. (I can’t find the article anymore, so look it up yourself if you don’t believe me.) I was thinking that everybody read The DaVinci Code, but no. If everyone who does read, read it, it would be half of the people you know, but most of them wouldn’t read that crap. What are these people doing instead, sleeping? TV, movies and video games aren’t good enough to fill all your nonworking, nonsleeping hours. I don’t understand.
And number three: I bought the Deluxe Edition Spider-Man movie today. Awesome!
posted by Stephen "Steve" at 7/17/2004 03:03:00 PM
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