The Torturers--Justin Raimondo / antiwar.com

[mistertrickster]

This is the latest from the arch anti-war libertarian.

'Are we now torturing children?

'A chill went down my spine as I read an account of a recent talk given by Seymour Hersh at the University of Chicago (via blogger Brad Delong):

'"He said that after he broke Abu Ghraib people are coming out of the woodwork to tell him this stuff. He said he had seen all the Abu Ghraib pictures. He said, 'You haven't begun to see evil...' then trailed off. He said, 'horrible things done to children of women prisoners, as the cameras run.' He looked frightened…."

. . . .

'And so it is. The mechanism of Empire is in place. Its engines await the throwing of a switch. What will fuel the machinery of imperialism is the fermented detritus of our own decadence, the immorality of a nation that will countenance the torturing of children without overthrowing the regime that sanctioned it.


http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=2811

He makes a very important point. What if the rumors of raping and torturing CHILDREN are true? What are we prepared to do about it as citizens of the United States?

I've got a few ideas, and one involves camping out on the steps of the frickin' White House with about five million other people . . .