Erudite Partner takes on the corrosive reality that impunity for torturers has embedded this abuse in our government's routine assaults on vulnerable people.
The Obama administration chose to allow torturers to walk free, even promoted some -- is it any surprise that a truly vicious executive would revel in its power to destroy human lives without legal limit? Here we are.If one administration can get away with confining detainees in coffin-like boxes and torturing them in myriad other ways, why shouldn’t a later one go unpunished for, to take but one example, putting migrant children in cages?
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Frightening, isn't it -- especially if they ever decide for some reason to single out one of us as those kind of things can go if you pay attention to history.
Hi Joared: societies that torture implicitly designate some people as torturable. Who is within the category is somewhat mutable, but in this country always starts with Black and Native people-- and then strangers, foreigners, brown people, youth, etc. The reality that most people we know, most of the time, are not obvious members of the tortureable class doesn't lessen the moral damage of having a torture society.
Remember that photo that went viral of the old woman in Portland during an Occupy protest who got a face full of tear gas? She was out of category -- in addition to miserable.
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