Is It Not Surreal That America Is Even Having This "Debate" On Torture?

[Syrinx]

In America?

Can you comprehend that? Can you wrap your mind around it?

"Torture" is the antithesis of everything I was ever taught that America stood for.

It seems utterly alien to me.

The parameters of "reasonable" debate in this country have become so skewed, that we are actually presented with the meta-network-approved point-of-contention "is torture okay?"

"Is Torture OK?"

In The United States Of America?

Is it okay if we act like we are drowning you?

Is it okay if we pull out your fingernails?

Is it okay if we pull out your tongue?

It's like George Orwell, Ray Bradbury and Rod Serling collaborated on a TV pilot, considered it brilliant in its fright, but ultimately abandoned it because it was too far-fetched. The people would never be conned or entertained by such tomfoolery!

"Better plots," they would have yelled!

Yet we have been reduced to this.

"Is torture okay?"

In a bit more than six-and-a-half years, this is what we have been reduced to.

We have gone from flawed protector of human rights around the world to a burgeoning police state at home.

I remember my civics textbooks from junior high back in the early eighties. I don't think our "leaders" today would even understand those books. Those books would seem so foreign, and so cumbersome by today's politicians.

I remember being taught about such things as the Bill Of Rights. I remember being taught about the principles that made America great.

I'm thinking, now, about going to my old junior high school, and just asking if they have copies of the old civics books from which we were taught.

I like antiques. And I adore great examples.

I won't be shocked if none are available for review.