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2006-06-02 Fifth Column
June is "Torture Awareness Month"
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Posted by Steve 2006-06-02 09:53|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 "We are sympathetic in your gravest hour and our thoughts are with you for a speedy recovery."
Posted by DarthVader 2006-06-02 10:29||   2006-06-02 10:29|| Front Page Top

#2 The "sponsors" are a Who's Who of Tool Fools.
Posted by Throluting Thravimble3768 2006-06-02 10:42||   2006-06-02 10:42|| Front Page Top

#3 The card is tied up in editing.
Posted by Chuck Simmins">Chuck Simmins  2006-06-02 10:44|| http://blog.simmins.org]">[http://blog.simmins.org]  2006-06-02 10:44|| Front Page Top

#4 Sounds like a good idea. Take the 'detainees' out and shoot them -- all in accordance with the Geneva Convention of course.
Posted by CrazyFool 2006-06-02 10:46||   2006-06-02 10:46|| Front Page Top

#5 I'm aware. Now where are the job applications?
Posted by ed 2006-06-02 10:54||   2006-06-02 10:54|| Front Page Top

#6 I declare July as "Human Rights Groups Are Gonna Kill Us All Month".
Posted by tu3031 2006-06-02 10:56||   2006-06-02 10:56|| Front Page Top

#7 These people are hypocrites, and I hope that it is clearly seen that they are not concerned whatsoever with any aspect of the torture issue.

I have yet to see them demonstrate for the systematic use of torture in Turkey or Iran, nor have they demonstrated against the impunity enjoyed by security forces under these regimes.

It is only human rights groups under these regimes that continue to battle against torture, always with the threat of extrajudicial murder hanging over them.

If these Western groups were truly concerned about the issue of torture, they would have long worked against it, but it is obvious that their only real issue is criticism of the US.

I have also been known to criticize the US, as well as the EU, but I have done so against policies or attitudes that have permitted Turkey to continue its gross human rights violations, instead of using this issue as a means of promoting a personal, ideological vendetta.

I truly despise all of these so-called "progressives" when they are, in fact, selfish in the extreme, and at the expense of hundreds of thousands of lives.
Posted by Azad 2006-06-02 11:44||   2006-06-02 11:44|| Front Page Top

#8 Sounds good to me, now if you can get North Korea, Sudan, Al-Qaida, Burma, China, Iran, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and about 50 other countries to stop you may have something. We arent really that bad when you look at the world as a whole are we?
Posted by bigjim-ky 2006-06-02 11:57||   2006-06-02 11:57|| Front Page Top

#9 "Sticks and stones,
will break your bones.
Tell me the names,
or I'll hurt you."
Posted by Steve">Steve  2006-06-02 11:59||   2006-06-02 11:59|| Front Page Top

#10 LOL Steve!
Posted by DarthVader 2006-06-02 12:39||   2006-06-02 12:39|| Front Page Top

#11 I am very aware of torture.

I am aware that a little pain will have some of these thumbsucking momma's boys in Al Qaeda singing like a bird. I think we should dust of the rack, the thumbscrews and the wheel

Has anyone seen my hot iron and Iron Maiden?
Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2006-06-02 12:43||   2006-06-02 12:43|| Front Page Top

#12 or Judas Priest or Anthrax CD's SPOD?

you are one cruel MF
Posted by Frank G 2006-06-02 13:22||   2006-06-02 13:22|| Front Page Top

#13 Pull a Zed on 'em. "You hear me talking Billy Boy? I'm about to get medieval on your ass!"
Posted by mcsegeek1 2006-06-02 13:30||   2006-06-02 13:30|| Front Page Top

#14 Maybe that is why they had a repeat of a "Mistress Heather" episode on CSI.

Mistress Heather kicks ass.

Literally.
Posted by Anonymoose 2006-06-02 13:53||   2006-06-02 13:53|| Front Page Top

#15 tied up in editing

hee hee
Posted by 6 2006-06-02 14:39||   2006-06-02 14:39|| Front Page Top

#16 Amd ironically enough, the Dixie Chicks just released a new album.
Posted by DMFD 2006-06-02 23:12||   2006-06-02 23:12|| Front Page Top

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