Sometimes I get angry and make intemperate remarks when I hear people make insensitive remarks related to killing, maiming, and torturing human beings for no good reason. Sometimes I even have a pang of regret that I allowed myself to become so vituperative. Nonetheless, I don’t think there is anything wrong with me expressing my desire that the Capitol Police arrest Joe Lieberman, hold him in a dungeon cell for six years, and periodically smear menstrual blood on him between waterboardings. If they want to throw his Torah in the toilet before feeding him two kinds of fruit, rice pilaf, and orange-glazed chicken, I won’t think anything of it but that Lieberman got back what he so eagerly dished out.
Am I kidding? Just barely. Torture is no joke.
Update [2009-2-1 15:55:51 by BooMan]: A little reality check for Monsieur Lieberman, from the Memory Hole:
At least 108 people have died in American custody in Iraq and Afghanistan, most of them violently, according to government data provided to The Associated Press. Roughly a quarter of those deaths have been investigated as possible abuse by U.S. personnel.
The figure, far higher than any previously disclosed, includes cases investigated by the Army, Navy, CIA and Justice Department.
– Associated Press, March 16, 2005
Oh horrid day, when torture became a joke in the little ol’ U.S. of A.
I think his white hair would be a good contrast to an orange jumpsuit.
I would love to know what happened to this former Freedom Rider to make him this way.
The food cannot be kosher, either.
And, to think that this creep is one of our elected leaders and a committee-chairman no less. He is simply a disgrace to the values that the United States once held dear. A nation that sacrifices everything to expediency soon loses any shred of respect among other nations of the world. America, sad to say, is well along this nefarious path. How far a once proud and decent country has fallen.
it should happen to his children and grandchildren, while he watches.
I am kidding, as I hope you are. Nonetheless, which comment is more offensive? Mine or Mr. Lieberman’s?
I don’t joke.
Lieberman’s comment is far worse. He’s been in a position to do something about the torture and has done less than nothing.
You’re just an angry blogger pointing out what a douche lieberman is.
Leave the Torah alone. Otherwise OK. I wouldn’t desecrate anyone’s sacred book, even though I don’t have one myself.
In moments like these, I wonder what Obama’s reaction is when he hears the news.