Jose Padilla and the road to hell (Cook / Chattanoogan)

[struggle4progress]

posted August 31, 2007

n April 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was in Memphis marching with striking garbage men. Back in Atlanta, at his home church, the bulletins for Sunday's worship would soon go to print, and King was asked to telephone in his sermon title for the approaching Sunday.

King never made it back to Atlanta; a bullet fired from a hotel balcony pierced his throat and head, and he died bleeding on the floor. Yet the sermon title does exist, and nearly forty years later, it is still haunting: Why America May Go to Hell ...

I do not know who to mourn more: the loss of Jose Padilla's mind or the individuals who are able to do this to another human. Extreme isolation and sensory deprivation and torture do not only affect the tortured; they curse the torturer, for what we do to another human, we do to ourselves and to God.

"It's a no-brainer for me,'' said vice-president Dick Cheney in his infamous statement emphatically supporting the use of torture to prevent a terrorist attack. The vice-president and Jose Padilla now have something in common: they are both insane ...

http://www.chattanoogan.com/articles/article_112538.asp

[TomInTib]

1. Jose Padilla and Me

Unfortunately, I have some experience with some of what the poor guy has undergone.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x1602976

[struggle4progress]

3. Thanks for the repost, which I read a few weeks ago.

[Demeter]

2. There Never Were Any Good Intentions In The Bush/Cheney Regime

That's why they had to steal two elections.