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“We do no torture.”
So Bush says.
It should read “We do not torture. Much. Unless we have to. You see it’s illegal. So we don’t do it. But if we have to it’s undocumented. Kind of like our workers. uhh… And then we do it in secret prisons…” But they can’t say that. That’d be close to the truth.

Cronyism. Corruption. Corporatism.

I was working today, bartending mostly, so I had the TV crankin’ away CNN, not Headline News, just regular CNN, and they were still talking about the Washington Post’s article about the CIA running secret prisons in Eastern Europe. It came as no shock at all that the Nobility of America’s corporate fiefdom and their puppets were running secret prisons. Was the scandal that it was worse to have secret prisons in Europe than in Saudi Arabia or Egypt? We’ve known about those for a while. Not according to Frist and his pals. The scandal is that someone leaked the information. ‘That’s odd’, I thought to myself, Shouldn’t we be questioning whether or not the supposed “allegations” were true? No, let’s find out who told the press that we were conducting “unscrupulous activities”, because truth, much like an indictment is “bad for the country”. Then again, the indictment they handed out was about the truth.

Nevermind republicans are “moral values” people, they would never cover up the truth.

A pattern is brewing, some sort of connection between the republicans and distortions of truth. Nah, that’s just “speculation”. The news can’t say things like that. They can’t take sides. Even if a “side” aligns with truth.
Before I’m even done mulling over the absurdity of their machinations, Trent Lott comes out and says something like,”well, uhh, it may have been a republican that let the information about the 4th Reich’s gulags out. Oops… A collective G.O.P. sigh was followed shortly by hundreds of phones dialing to ask Minister of Propaganda Rove, “how do we blame this on democrats?”
I don’t know if they got an answer, but a guy at the bar today had a pretty good prediction that follows precedent, “I bet you the terror alert goes up or they have some sort of ‘credible threat’ tomorrow.” So sad. So true. Tomorrow will tell.
I can’t even wrap my head around their apologist attitude surrounding torture. They admit it doesn’t work, they admit it’s illegal, but they fight for the right of it’s continued use. I have an idea, in order to stop terrorism, stop supporting fear and perhaps start to stand for liberty and justice universally. Don’t sell people chemical weapons, and then sanction the country for using them, don’t give money to both sides. That’s hypocritical. Jesus did not seem to care for hypocrites, or self-righteous people with a love of money and power, but you’d think he was their strongest champion judging by the words and deeds of those who dirty his name, as they wash themselves with it.

I guess what I’m trying to demonstrate is that every day we see more connections between the evils that we know are hurting the world and its children, human and otherwise, and yet we do little more than strain against the web. Well, as the weaves tighten I can only assume that it will become easier to see, and for those who it weighs upon the most harder to endure and more fires will burn in the streets. Today Paris. Tomorrow      ?

How much can a government mismanage taxes and favor corporations, before someone throws the tea overboard?
I have faith that we will see the web, and we will fight it, and when we look in the mirror, and when we look back on our day, we will ultimately take responsibility and demand accountability.

There are those who say that in 2012 the Earth will enter the Age of Aquarius. There are those who say the end times are here. Those who fear and demonize in the face of Judgement Day say we must repent because the end is nigh. Those who see a New Age say that through some cleansing everything will come to the surface and we will become more fully human. Some of those who say the earth will end will also say that we have finished evolving. Wouldn’t they love that, a condition that would allow them to be unaccountable to their actions? C’mon one can only be as good as his species, right?

Whether it be just another day or your last day, when that day comes, can you look your god in the face and proclaim, “We do not torture.”?

Will your god believe you any more than we do?