The Senate Report on the CIA and Torture

Most of you who know me personally will understand that I am being completely honest when I say that I am thoroughly, completely, horrified with the news that came out of the Senate yesterday in the form of their report on torture and the CIA. If one person dares to tell me that there is anything, anything at all redemptive about George W. Bush and/or Dick Cheney, I hope you will say whatever that could possibly be, from a distance because you probably will not like my response. For many years, I have gone back and forth with people over the state of our economy and the part those two, evil men had to play in the almost complete collapse of the world monetary system. I thought the economy, poor quality of education, the civil rights of many being ignored, the two murderous wars, the greed of the few, the destructive income inequality that is becoming the norm, the horrible way that we treat immigrants, the fact that there are still attempts being made by the wealthy few to deny medical care, food, housing to the impoverished and the working poor was the worst that the United States of America had become. Little did I know the secrets that loomed behind the doors at the CIA.

I actually had started having doubts about the country I lived in. I was beginning to realize that it may not be the country I wanted my being to be associated with. For a large part of my life, red flags have been waived, the Vietnam Police Action debacle, the Civil Rights Movement, the ever-growing greed on Wall Street, the demise of our quality education system, the stagnant wages, the constant refusal to give women equal rights, the disappearance of the Middle Class, the rise of the blatant selling of elections and so on and so forth. I recognized that we have been walking a fine line, teetering on the precipice of A 'Third World Country' designation but I was born in the United States, I have never been one to sit idly by while my country has been sliding into the depths of disgust because I thought I could make a difference. I thought that I could support candidates for public office, even this very blog is an attempt to get people to put down the phone, close the laptop, lay down the video controller and get up off the couch and STAND FOR SOMETHING, be an honest, proud citizen of the United State of America, the greatest, most powerful, iconic country in the world. The UNITED STATES OF AMERICA! I pledge allegience to the flag.... Sadly, it is no more.

Over my lifetime I have studied history. I love history, very much. I'm a firm believer that if we do not learn from history, we are DOOMED, doomed to repeat it. I've read about the sinfulness of the Spanish Inquisition, the chemical warfare of World War I, the Nazi death camps of World War II and the horribly denigrating, pure evil of the Khmer Rouge, the Viet Cong, Rwanda, Uganda, Hungary, Serbia, China, USSR, Russia, Ivory Coast, and on and on and on and on. I did not, however, in a million lifetimes expect that the United States of America, the greatest country in the world, would fall so far as to resort to the ugliest, most demented, degrading torture one could ever think of. I still cannot imagine the kind of person who sits around all day thinking of the most morally unacceptable ways of torturing a HUMAN BEING! Rectal infusions of meals, diapers that are worn for days with no toilet available, sleep deprivation for days and days on end, rectal flushing, strung from the ceiling for days, torture continued with broken bones, threatened with gums and drills, naked, raped, humiliated on end, families threatened. What kind of people are these? What kind of country is this that condones the most putrid of men performing loathsome, obscene, repugnant acts such as these. I really do not know where I belong but I do know it is not in a country that condones this evil.

#evil