Why our recent incidents of torture are un-American

• December 17, 2014
• criminal justice  
• politics  
• religion  
• war crimes  

Charles P. Pierce has once again eloquently stated what should be obvious but sadly is not. The short summary is that the founders of our nation quite clearly understood that it was extremely important government not be allowed to torture people.

I wouldn’t post this if the nitwits at Fox News and Meet the Press hadn’t recently argued that torture is okay if it is done by Americans who are scared. It is a shame that the Christian hell doesn’t exist because it is where former vice-president Dick Cheney, Whitehouse legal advisor John Yoo and pretty much everyone else associated with the George Bush presidential administration deserves to spend a few years. Not eternity. For only morally bankrupt individuals believe that being punished forever is an appropriate response to finite crimes.

P.S., Reading the comments to the article I mentioned above I followed this link to Antonin Scalia’s defense of torture. Holy shit. Antonin Scalia might be more evil than former vice-president Dick Cheney. He’s certainly more dangerous in as much as he is a sitting US Supreme Court justice whereas Cheney is no longer one step away from being president (although he still has too much influence in our national media).