Torture: It's wrong. AK Politics 2 Grand?

As you know every once in awhile I get to rant and rave a bit. So far reactions to the ranting articles have been good but I would especially like to break out in this article. Shoot me an email and tell me why I’m as stupid as you are. http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=3978231&page=1

When I first heard about the torture allegations against the Unites States I thought “of course we are torturing people, of course we are going to get caught and of course it is not OK.” Seriously. The government has a huge duty to keep you safe and if you are against that, I say you're Spoiled and safe.

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Torture is not OK though. Yeah I know that you think I’m this raging Republican who thinks we should steal everyone’s money and give it to the rich (they do a fine job of that by themselves by the way) but torture should never be allowed.

Everyone always brings it to the extremes “What if your kid was on a train and you had a bomber who knew where the bomb was and …” blah, blah and in that instant I would break the rules and torture the crap out of the person to save my child. Then I would suffer the consequences of doing so because it is against morality and while I may have been right that one time, it sets precedent for me to torture someone who may not know anything at all. It really is that simple. Think of it this way, if you were the person who supposedly knew where the bomb was and you were being tortured to say something you didn’t know…torture should not be allowed.

When I heard about water boarding I pictured a guy in cell for days on end, being put through water boarding (I never took the time to find out what the process was) time after time after time and I pictured it not really being that affective until days, maybe weeks later. I also pictured John McCain and how he has to walk and move his arms and so on…a man who was truly tortured and deserves the finest this country has to offer him even if you do not agree with the man. The Right is right; movies do get to your head. We should ban all of them.

When I read that the torture was for 35 seconds… WHAT? What the hell kind-of torture is that? The guy is trying to wipe the United States’ citizens off the face of the earth, even those who are trying to help him, and someone got busted for 35 seconds of water boarding? Seconds? Was that every hour on the hour for a week? Was it for a day at least? Come on now. Jackass and Fear Factor have more torture than that. Get old Johnny Knoxville over with the stun gun on the testicles or put the guy in a shopping cart and push him out into traffic. Don’t make asses out of yourself and get caught torturing someone for 35 seconds. Good grief.

On the same side, way to use a technique that works. Keep it in mind when we get another one of those creeps trying to destroy the people who are against water boarding to save the lives of their fellow Americans.

It shows one thing; Abu Zubaydah does not believe the whole “70 virgins” deal. He starts out I want those virgins, it will be a great day for Allah, then in less time than it takes for you to sit at a traffic light, OK I know there aren’t any virgins out there waiting for a sap like me so I’ll tell you things that will save your country. Just please don’t put me through that again.” WOW. Is the enemy listening to this? In 35 seconds he gave up his virgins…and you are strapping a bomb to yourself and going through hours of psychological torture that you are self-imposing. 35 seconds. It takes longer than that to strap the bomb to yourself. Start to strap it on and then OK that’s enough, good thought but that isn’t going to work for me. Done. Bombing over because it never started.

35 seconds of torture is as embarrassing as people freaking out about making war prisoners wear underwear on their heads. How could we.

It’s a lot like what is happening in Alaska with the politicians being busted for selling votes. And just how much does it cost to buy a vote in Alaska? $2,000-$3,000 depending on if you want a yes or no vote. No, I didn’t leave a few 0’s out. The largest number I heard in the bribery case was $30,000-$40,000 over a period of time. Are we that ridiculous that we just give out votes for a few dollars? At least take some pride in your crime, for cry’n out loud. You’re an elected official with power after all. You make Alaskans look like a bunch of idiots, 2K, you couldn’t pay me 2K to take your phone call. Tack on a few sets of three 0’s behind that and get me into one of those off shore bank accounts…or wait for me to retire and then give me my own island. 2 thousand dollars. We are richer than that! We really are! Good grief.