Torture, massacres and denial
CounterPunch
by Diane Christian
06/06/06
Richard Pryor had a comedy routine where he advised husbands caught in flagranto to counter with 'are you going to believe me or your lying eyes?' Sometimes we deny by closing our eyes. But sometimes we deny by rationalizing; by attacking the facts with negation and reasoning. President Bush can say the US doesn't torture because he redefines US and torture. To wit: The US is good and wouldn't do anything bad. A few bad apple rogue torturers working the night shift at Abu Ghraib aren't the US. And, aided by lawyers, he torques senseless the meaning of torture, restricting it by abstraction and redefinition, and by the Secretary of Defense special -- reduction to the absurd. Rumsfeld ruminates that he stands hours a day at his desk so what's torture about forced standing in prison?
http://www.counterpunch.org/christian06062006.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
by Diane Christian
06/06/06
Richard Pryor had a comedy routine where he advised husbands caught in flagranto to counter with 'are you going to believe me or your lying eyes?' Sometimes we deny by closing our eyes. But sometimes we deny by rationalizing; by attacking the facts with negation and reasoning. President Bush can say the US doesn't torture because he redefines US and torture. To wit: The US is good and wouldn't do anything bad. A few bad apple rogue torturers working the night shift at Abu Ghraib aren't the US. And, aided by lawyers, he torques senseless the meaning of torture, restricting it by abstraction and redefinition, and by the Secretary of Defense special -- reduction to the absurd. Rumsfeld ruminates that he stands hours a day at his desk so what's torture about forced standing in prison?
http://www.counterpunch.org/christian06062006.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
rudkla - 7. Jun, 18:10
