Sigh (previously locked)
May. 16th, 2007 11:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pecuniumIt seems a someone has made my views of torture a hobby horse.
Torture (the word, not the act) is overused.
I know who wrote that. He'd commented here.
I know he's intellectually dishonest (in one of his other blogs he's mis-represented things I said in print, to people who have never read the printed words, and so can't know that I didn't say reporters are unable to avoid being objective), but to see it again...
And it's the same old shit... ticking bombs and reports of cases where torture "worked."
Maybe some of it my ire is that I am being mocked. Mostly it's that torture is being praised (oh... it's terrible, and never to be used, save as a last resort but the lesser evil is to be preferred; and can even be a good).
Then again, I've read a lot of his writing, and he's full of inconsistencies. He's a pagan, who thinks mandating Christian prayer in school isn't bad. He believes the phrase "under God" is fitting and proper in the Pledge of Allegiance. Me, I'm a lasped Catholic, and I think both of those are wrong (Caesar and God have different spheres).
He thinks civil unions are equal to marriage, that the press is overwhelmingly liberal, the War in Iraq is justified, and has agreed with pretty much every right wing shibboleth I have ever seen him comment on. He, of course, calls himself a Libertarian.
Yes, I am doing some of what he has done; few here have any association with him, and so aren't able to weigh my excoriaton. Oh well.
I don't know why I'm locking this. Partly to avoid drama, partly to avoid hurting his feelings. It's the last which croggles me. It's not as if he's refrained from insulting me... but there you go.
Torture (the word, not the act) is overused.
I know who wrote that. He'd commented here.
I know he's intellectually dishonest (in one of his other blogs he's mis-represented things I said in print, to people who have never read the printed words, and so can't know that I didn't say reporters are unable to avoid being objective), but to see it again...
And it's the same old shit... ticking bombs and reports of cases where torture "worked."
Maybe some of it my ire is that I am being mocked. Mostly it's that torture is being praised (oh... it's terrible, and never to be used, save as a last resort but the lesser evil is to be preferred; and can even be a good).
Then again, I've read a lot of his writing, and he's full of inconsistencies. He's a pagan, who thinks mandating Christian prayer in school isn't bad. He believes the phrase "under God" is fitting and proper in the Pledge of Allegiance. Me, I'm a lasped Catholic, and I think both of those are wrong (Caesar and God have different spheres).
He thinks civil unions are equal to marriage, that the press is overwhelmingly liberal, the War in Iraq is justified, and has agreed with pretty much every right wing shibboleth I have ever seen him comment on. He, of course, calls himself a Libertarian.
Yes, I am doing some of what he has done; few here have any association with him, and so aren't able to weigh my excoriaton. Oh well.
I don't know why I'm locking this. Partly to avoid drama, partly to avoid hurting his feelings. It's the last which croggles me. It's not as if he's refrained from insulting me... but there you go.
