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Tuesday 
15 August 2006
shock the monkey
law enforcement personnel are required to be tasered before going into the field with a taser.
this demonstration reminds police, “this shit is dangerous. use it with discretion.”
george bush desperately needs to be tasered.
maybe then he wouldn’t be so fired up to torture people.
The Bush administration objects to the clause in Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions that prohibits “outrages upon personal dignity, in particular, humiliating and degrading treatment.”
This standard has been followed for more than a half-century by almost 190 countries, including the United States. The War Crimes Act of 1996, passed by a Republican Congress, makes it a felony to violate the Geneva Conventions. But the Bush administration authorized techniques to handle and interrogate prisoners that clearly break the rules - like prolonged exposure to extreme temperatures, long periods in stress positions, strapping prisoners to metal contraptions and force-feeding them.
The White House wants to apply an American legal principle, used to prohibit cruel and unusual punishment, that bars treatment that “shocks the conscience.”
there’s little left about bush and his henchmen that can inspire shock. they have plumbed unseen depths and come back for more, oblivious to the obscenity of their actions.
after they’re impeached, we the people are obliged to make amends for this administration’s indiscretions. bush, cheney, rumsfeld and gonzales ought to be shipped to guantanamo for a demonstration of the humiliating and degrading treatment they’re so fond of.
let it begin with a taser. and proceed from there.
addendum: what?
you don’t have the stomach for this kind of reciprocity? you can’t imagine being so callous and depraved as to inflict this kind of treatment on fellow human beings?
shoot, that was just talk. empty words. it ain’t gonna happen, ever.
but the people who have been tortured and killed, in your name, on bush’s watch?
they’re real.
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You have to wonder what kind of human being can OBJECT to the geneva conventions.
Well I guess we don’t have to wonder since we see them in action every frakking day. And they are not doing it in MY name. I did everything legally possible to defeat them. Unfortunately, they did everything illegally possible to maintain their chokehold on power.
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Good post! I fear the complacency that comes along with assuming that we’re above it all; that we’re somehow different from those we accuse of routinely torturing others.
We’re not. This proves it.