I am so happy for Air America. I hope all of you turn off your TV and listen to what they have to say. My favorite is Randi Rhodes. She really does tell it like it is. She was here in South Florida in 2000 and was our voice saying all the thing we wanted to say about the 2000 election. I am glad she is broadcast all over the country and just not in South Florida.
Yesterday she had several people calling in who said that we should torture these people in Iraq prisons. I sat there and listened with my mouth wide open. Some thought we weren't torturing people, it was all made up. Others said the things we did to torture could not be called torture. It's extracting information from the ones that kill Americans...their beheading Americans and we should just do nothing..they said. I did notice all the callers were men. How come? Are these the guys that slap their women and think it is because they love them?
Wow....let me say, we are such a violent society. What is acceptable now by us is unbelievable. So many let the violence roll right off them like it is part of daily life...which it is because we don't teach our children right from wrong. We cannot go through a day without hearing some kind of violence in our own towns and city's.
Any kind of torture is abuse. We are the abusers. We will do anything because we think we are more powerful then them. The abuser always has the power. What is it going to take for people to understand that we torture people? Do we have to take them where it is going on and put it right in front of their face. If we show them, will they perceive it to be torture? If we did it to them, then will it be torture?
I am so happy the Senators voted against Alberto Gonzales nomination going to the senate floor. Stopping the abuse starts with standing together and doing what is right. This man is the reason why the abuse in this war/invasion happened and is happening not only in Iraq but all over. He told Bush how to twist the rules to allow him to torture. I only hope all the lies are exposed.
I look at the pictures of the GI's doing the torture. I don't know how they could do these things. I couldn't do it no matterwhere the orders came from. It is sick and makes me sick looking at the images of them smiling.
Randi had another caller. She said she just got back from Germany. She talked to an older man who lived through WWII while she was there. He said Bush will go down in history as Hitler and Stalin have. And he is bringing us all down with him unless we all stand together and say, this is not America, this is not what we stand for.
If you believe we do not torture....VERY Divided we stand. http://www.airamericaradio.com
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