Disenchanted Citizen: Where do we draw the line on torture?

Friday, May 22, 2009

Where do we draw the line on torture?

Michael Vick served 19 months for torturing dogs while Dick Cheney is walking around free. Anyone care to venture a guess as to why this is business as usual?

Possible lessons learned:
1 - torturing people is okay, torturing animals is punishable.

2 - The GOP is the TORTURE-PROMOTING party!

3 – People love dogs more than their fellow humans

4 – It is more acceptable to torture Arabs than dogs?

Decide for yourself.

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I am the State

Having been freed of the false illusions and thought-stifling processes of charlatan educators, whose homogenized teachings of half-truths and misconceptions have clouded my past judgment, I have awakened from the apathetic, zombie-like dream state that plagues many of my fellow Americans and have found that we have been duped.

Rules as set forth by the power-elite are tools devised to mold us into their ideal citizens. I am a spirit, a free thinker, governed by a higher moral authority and as such refuse to be shaped to match their will.

Truth, in a Democracy, the right to speak it coupled with open-mindedness and the desire to fight for it, is really the only thing that will keep this nation great. The day that main stream media prostituted itself to corporate money and became nothing more than entertainment, we the people lost our greatest ally in keeping the truth alive.

Internet neutrality is the next target of corporate repression and even if we are not able to stop them from taking that away from us, we the people will keep the truth flowing through what ever other means lay at our disposal.

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