In my diary Torture as Terrorism. Torture as Spin. Shock and Awe. For EVERYBODY I made two points about the whole “torture” brouhaha.
1-Torture doesn’t work. Not really. Too much lying. Our intel forces are smart enough to know that.
and
2-We have pharmacological means to get people to talk that are MUCH more effective.
BT contributor Rumi added another point.
They already have the information.
Rumi was referring to our electronic datamining resources, but of course there are other ramifications to that idea. Like the fact that we were and have been running covert counter-ops in the Islamic world since the days of the Shah of Iran.
Since the days of T. E. Lawrence, really.
So what IS this current flap all about?
It is the many-snaked media head once again turning us to stone.
Media.
+
USA.
Equals Medusa + the Spanish word dia.
Day.
As in “daily”.
“Take your meds, dear. Every day. THAT’S a good girl.”
Read on for more.
Yes, Rumi.
That too.
A third leg of evidence that the whole “torture” thing is a red herring.
ANOTHER attempt by the magician to distract our attention while he pulls a rabbit out of his hat.
A dead rabbit.
The REAL WMDs?
Weapons of Mass Distraction.
WHATEVER it is about which the media raise a hue and cry…and increasingly, that includes the larger elements of the internet media as well…if you think through the subject you will find something entirely different on the other side of the looking glass.
It is ALL a distraction.
I cannot press this point home often enough. From the Ron Suskind article in the NY Times published on October 17, 2004.Without a Doubt. (Referring to conversation in 2002, by the way. This is nothing new, here.)
The aide said that guys like me were ”in what we call the reality-based community,” which he defined as people who ”believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.” I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. ”That’s not the way the world really works anymore,” he continued. ”We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality — judiciously, as you will — we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.”
And here we are once again, babbling liberally on about torture torture torture torture. Torture this, torture that. While we uncomprehendingly watch as Semi-President Butcher’s numbers once again begin their inexorable rise in the polls. Saying “How can these people be such FOOLS??? Don’t they SEE!!!???”
WE don’t see. Too busy looking at the bloody hand.
They have once again created a new reality. While we…judiciously, as we will…sit here and outragedly argue about old news.
Sad.
DO NOT EVEN LOOK AT THE MAGICIAN.
If you MUST, at least just snatch quick glances out of the corner of your eye.
Like gazing full on at Medusa, taking anything that he says or does seriously…even the “crimes” in which he allows himself to be caught…will turn you right into stone. Like Lot’s wife looking back at Sodom and Gomorrah instead of running for all she was worth, you will be turned into a pillar of salt.
His sleight of mind is KILLING us.
And once again…this seems to be a lost cause with much of the population, left right or center, but it is the only possible solution to our current problems that I can find so I soldier on…I suggest to you all.
NEWSTRIKE!!!
MEDIASTRIKE!!!
The MOST radical action that is available to us.
Tired of being fooled by the magician?
Don’t attend his performance!!!
Don’t read competing reviews of his performance.
Pay him no mind. Because “mind” is the currency in which he deals. Starve the bastard out.
Mae West said “Call me anything but call me often.”
The old saw goes “Say anything you want about me, but spell my name right.”
Well…the Holy Prophet Screamin’ Jay Hawkins had it right when we sang “I put a SPELL on you!!!”
I’m yours right now
I put a spell on you
Because you’re mine
Oh, yeah
They don’t CARE if we don’t want them.
As long as we pay attention and spell their names right, the spell is ON.
We are theirs!!!
Wanna wake the fuck up?
LEAVE THE GODDAMNED THEATER!!!
Old vaudeville sketch.
Doctor’s office.
Patient: “Doc, it hoits when I do dis.” (Lifting his arm above his head.)
Doctor: “Don’t DO DAT!!!”
Duh.
Don’t DO DAT!!!
NEWSTRIKE!!!
MEDIASTRIKE!!!
Station WTFU, signing off.
And…wake the fuck UP!!!
AG
