The Unidentified Queen of Torture

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24. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cui_bono

Thanks for the Latin lesson. And I'm not being snarky. Learning stuff like this helps me feel.......reasonably well educated.

And there's certain words in other languages that describe in one word that which in english would require at least a phrase. The best and almost only example I can offer is the German "schadenfreude" - taking delight in other's misery.

"9-11 changed everything" is a phrase I like to use a lot. It changed all our checks and balances that would have prevented the illegal invasion of Iraq on the basis of lies......some the product of torture!

So, torture does work, as it produces false intelligence to justify an illegal invasion conducted in full view of the entire planet. If you contemplate how brazen you have to be in order to pull off the biggest BIG LIE since Nazi Germany, then it's easy to see why our elected reps have no qualms about the Cromnibus cloak of darkness "let Wall Street gamble with depositors money again" repeal of that portion of Dodd-Frank. It was also PRETTY BRAZEN of them to overturn the D.C. referendum that legalized pot. The will of the people is only for quaint inoperative former Democracies, I guess?

Considering the majority of Americans are in favor of torture and a bigger majority think torture prevented further terrorist attacks, I really do wonder when the civilized and fair and just Democracies of the world de-couple from the U.S. and banish our entire country in the manner Napoleon was banished to St. Helena?

-90% Jimmy

Hunter S. Thompson's prose on 9-12-01 was brilliant in his prescience. He was also great writing about the historical brutishness that is so much of American history. We did lots of bad stuff over the years, the massacre of native Americans for one and slavery for another. Maybe America in a couple of decades post WW2 was the moral leader of the free World, and deservedly so, we defeated Fascism and Totalitarianism and authoritarianism, but in the present we've turned into mean fearful ignorant MF'ers!

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