24-09-2011, 08:08 AM
Switching one brand of tea for another......almost like waterboarding! I don't deny the likelihood that these or similar techniques were/are used....but the writer seems to miss the obvious - that the same goes on in the 'Western' 'democracies (sic)'..... Both 'sides' are equally evil, IMHO - they have their own styles, but neither are democracies under the rule of Law and the People. And your point about drone strikes is well taken...we do a bit more outside our countries to non-citizens than they do. They do a bit more [only a bit] taking out their reporters and whistleblowers, etc. in and outside their country by various means [killings; plutonium, etc.]
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"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass