Public Intolerance

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In the meantime, the so righteous and god chosen administration says torture is acceptable. Then when it is exposed, well, we blame all the little people. Clearly top administration officials who sent Gen Miller from Guantanamo to Gitmoize Iraq are not responsible for this. After all, according to Rush Limbaugh, et al, this really was not that bad:

from Washington Post Use of Dogs to Scare Prisoners Was Authorized
U.S. intelligence personnel ordered military dog handlers at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq to use unmuzzled dogs to frighten and intimidate detainees during interrogations late last year, a plan approved by the highest-ranking military intelligence officer at the facility, according to sworn statements the handlers provided to military investigators.
A military intelligence interrogator also told investigators that two dog handlers at Abu Ghraib were "having a contest" to see how many detainees they could make involuntarily urinate out of fear of the dogs, according to the previously undisclosed statements obtained by The Washington Post.

Free speech is wrong - Patriot Act. Human Rights violations to advance democracy is good. Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition - unless you understand extremists who use political agendas and not facts to justify anything.

At least when the thousands of kids marched through Chicago, under attack from Daley's storm troopers, then they were saying quite correctly "The whole world is watching". Who speaks out for Pirate who only asks a simple question? What chance does Pirate have when even Jimmy Kimmel and Howard Stern speak honestly?

We have met intolerance and it is us. 30 years later and the old expressions apply again.