Drowning in Filth

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by John Chuckman


... Recent events surely qualify the United States to claim some sort of title from the Guinness Book of Records such as the world's largest moral and intellectual open sewer ...

... It was a fine moment recently when the American Senate offered an apology for about five thousand American lynchings ... Note that the number of lynching victims counted (and there were many more in the previous century) is roughly double the number of people killed in 9/11. The population of the United States was much smaller when lynching was a regular source of family-values entertainment in the South ...

... Now that an autopsy has proved the late Terri Schiavo was blind, missing half her brain, and showed no signs of abuse, you'd think the American politicians who made complete asses of themselves trying to have the courts interfere in the private affairs of one poor citizen would shut up ...

... We have the revelation in a New England Journal of Medicine article that American doctors attending prisoners at America's torture chamber in Guantanamo Bay give confidential patient information to the CIA and other agencies so that they can assess which of their efforts proves most effective ...

http://baltimorechronicle.com/062705Chuckman.shtml

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1. The administration-sanctioned torture of prisoners is the thing that has

put me over the edge. Especially as Bushie claims to be a Bible-believing born-again Christian. Now we're learning that American doctors have been attending the prisoners and revealing which of their "efforts" prove most effective. As Randi Rhodes says, Dr. Mengele, anyone? This is all just beyond belief. How could we have come to this? Moral and intellectual sewer, indeed. And yet we have those who are "going ballistic" because they can't display the 10 commandments in public places. Once again, words officially fail me...

Tired Old Cynic