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Debates over the precise quality and quantity of pain inflicted by a specific interrogation 'technique' are evidence of the cesspool of moral depravity into which we have sunk. It is against international law, and a violation of our constitutional rights, to inflict pain on a person held by the state for questioning. It is a violation, one of the most basic violations, of fundamental human rights.
The corrupt rulers of our republic, as part of the fascist shift so well documented and described in Naomi Wolf's essay "The End of America", have normalized the routine torture of persons held by the state. Through their Bullshit Media System they have systematically trivialized the abhorrent. Their apologists and enablers have provided them the legal and intellectual framework to justify an abomination.
To those of you who continue to say 'it can't happen here', I say 'it already has'. Wake up.
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