tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-566549353480755664.post6913634595962976253..comments2023-04-27T03:10:47.278-07:00Comments on la vie rêvée des clowns: bush legalizes torture*** UPDATEDKristin Tiechehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10847043996015177460noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-566549353480755664.post-14008912519508932752008-02-09T13:42:00.000-08:002008-02-09T13:42:00.000-08:00I was thinking Sweden or Denmark. I already have m...I was thinking Sweden or Denmark. I already have my application for Canada filled out. Haven't sent it in yet though.Kristin Tiechehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10847043996015177460noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-566549353480755664.post-8509059577687413452008-02-08T11:30:00.000-08:002008-02-08T11:30:00.000-08:00Move to Canada. That's what I'm doing in five year...Move to Canada. That's what I'm doing in five years.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-566549353480755664.post-8860023242317024182008-02-08T09:18:00.000-08:002008-02-08T09:18:00.000-08:00I'm sorry I made you feel sick to your stomach. Be...I'm sorry I made you feel sick to your stomach. <BR/><BR/>Besides writing to Pelosi, I don't know what else one can do at this point. Stop paying taxes?Kristin Tiechehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10847043996015177460noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-566549353480755664.post-60824659004695607102008-02-08T05:54:00.000-08:002008-02-08T05:54:00.000-08:00Oh, one more thing. Pelosi is part of this machin...Oh, one more thing. Pelosi is part of this machine. She drank the KoolAde and can't seem to speak in authentic sentences anymore. I doubt whether she has any dignity left -- much less the desire to help us reclaim it for her.<BR/><BR/>There was a day when she actually seemed real. Now she is just as hollow as the others.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-566549353480755664.post-65290381716738051072008-02-08T04:33:00.000-08:002008-02-08T04:33:00.000-08:00Hey K, Thanks for reminding me. I read an intervie...Hey K, <BR/><BR/>Thanks for reminding me. I read an interview about this film -- I think it was Gibney himself. <BR/><BR/>If I were to have another life, I would make documentaries like this. My hatred for my civilian masters (and some military masters) runs so deep that I risk serious legal consequences. (The UCMJ is very different than civilian law in the US.) Of course, I hate the people that my civilian masters are trying to kill as well. In fact, I hate just about everyone!<BR/><BR/>I will definitely see the film and send you my thoughts and impressions. But I can tell you up front that none of this is fiction. In fact, the real story of our practices is worse -- believe it. I could talk for hours on this. I will let the film speak for itself, instead of outline how I feel about my civilian masters -- who, incidentally, were voted into office by stupid Americans. But the machinery for the current administration was already in place -- and it's "raison d'etre" was to support the standards of living of AMERICANS. So we should all take a little time to think about that unpleasant fact. We are ALL stained by this. We on the opposition side of the fence should be less concerned with taking the moral highground and more with taking responsibility. You get this -- but for every one of you, there are ten that don't.<BR/><BR/>And then there is the other side of the equation -- there are some very, very bad people over here in this region as well. You would not believe the horrors that these people perpetrate -- horrors that go unreported, in part because they are too unbelievable. And they are equal opportunity savages. They perpetrate these horrors against their own. And they are far worse than anything we do. I'm not equivocating. I'm stating a fact.<BR/><BR/>And most of them are not as a result of what Bush did, but of a very toxic ideology that is very real and that has been growing since the 1700s. But is that any of our business? And why are we even here in the first place? What is the real reason? I can only imagine the blowback we will feel twenty years from now, when all the young children here in the Middle East and North Africa and South Asia are grown, and organizations in the US, Canada, the UK, France, India, and even China are more sophisticated, better funded, and have more lethal technologies at their disposal.<BR/><BR/>Who wins? It looks like Huntington and Lewis may be right, as much as I hate people who think like them. And this means we are all going to be dragged into a war where nobody is right -- a sort of situation analogous to the one in Palestine, only on a global scale. (Some say we're there already -- although most Americans are still isolated from its effects.) <BR/><BR/>And so I find it very difficult to know what to think and who to believe without descending into (a) an absolute state of existential cynicism, or (b) a mystical explanation for why we are (all of us) this way.<BR/><BR/>Okay, I'll shut up and watch the film when I get a chance. Now I need to think about something else because I feel sick to my stomach.<BR/><BR/>Talk soon.<BR/><BR/>JAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com