:: Running from the Thought Police ::

:: Thursday, June 16, 2005 ::

Shifting

I find it mildly interesting that, rather than being concerned with the historical company we now keep in relation to our use of torture, Illinipundit is taking offense to the fact that Sen. Durbin had the gall to actually point it out. (Restated for the simple: he's not offended by torture, just that Durbin has reminded people of other groups that have condoned it.) If this were a matter of rational discourse, we'd have already agreed that torture was bad and moved on from there. Why are we, as a country, talking about torture as if there's the remotest chance that it's acceptable?

UPDATE: To quote Kos:

To the pea brains on the Right, incapable of reading the English language in its most basic, unuanced form, they claim Durbin is calling our troops Nazis. The Wingnutosphere is making that claim. Rush is making that claim. Hannity is making that claim. Drudge is making that claim. Look to Fox News to jump on the bandwagon tomorrow.

Of course, what Durbin is saying is that such torture -- undisputed, by the way, and read from an FBI report -- is more at home in a place like Soviet Russia or Nazi Germany than in a modern Democracy.

And that's the truth. Plain and simple.

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