December 07, 2005
Thumbs up for torture
from - Buck
I got a real kick out of this one from Boortz.
But you won't be hearing much about this poll....after all, it makes the Bush administration look good. Remember the template: any news that's interpreted as being good for George Bush is buried, while the bad news is covered on page one. Typical media bias.
Supposedly the “great news” that a majority of people think that torture is justified will be buried by the “liberal” media. Boortz got the story from everybody’s favorite underground news source, ABC News.
So much for the mainstream media burying a story.
So, the torture of suspects is okay. Hell, nowadays all you need is a beard and a swarthy complexion and you are a suspect.
When a green light for torture is great news for your President the problems in your country are legion.
Posted by Buck at December 7, 2005 12:21 PM
The breakdown:
..............U.S. Canada Mexico S. Korea
Often be justified ... 11 9 9 6
Sometimes be justified ... 27 19 22 47
Rarely be justified ... 23 21 18 33
Never be justified ... 36 49 40 10
Not sure ... 3 2 11 4
If you can make sense of that...
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Posted by smijer on December 7, 2005 01:32 PM Link to comment |
Past polls on torture have broken it up slightly differently, between people who say that torture is sometimes or often justified and those who say it's rarely or never justified. I take at least some comfort knowing that there's a significant difference between these two groups when you break it down by party affiliation. In one recent poll, 60% of Democrats and 51% of Independents think torture is rarely or never justified, compared with 38% of Republicans. On the sometimes/often side, it's 36% of Democrats, 42% of Independents, and 59% of Republicans. Republicans are stereotypically law-and-order, authoritarian types, but this is just sad.
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Posted by RSA on December 7, 2005 02:23 PM Link to comment |
Oh, I also like Boortz's weaselly, "But keep in mind we're not even torturing people." From General Taguba's report of "intentional abuse of detainees":
a. (S) Punching, slapping, and kicking detainees; jumping on their naked feet;
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h. (S) Positioning a naked detainee on a MRE Box, with a sandbag on his head, and attaching wires to his fingers, toes, and penis to simulate electric torture;
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k. (S) A male MP guard having sex with a female detainee;
l. (S) Using military working dogs (without muzzles) to intimidate and frighten detainees, and in at least one case biting and severely injuring a detainee;
Just fraternity pranks, I suppose. . .
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Posted by RSA on December 7, 2005 02:30 PM Link to comment |
