Posted on 04/16/2008 8:12:53 AM PDT by SmithL
We don't exactly have smashed and burning vehicles and dead bodies in the streets and vicious martial law, ethnic cleansings and curfews and media lockouts and blocked Internet access and all sorts of nefarious, disturbing reports of brutality and beatings and death. Well, except for parts of Oakland. And L.A. And Chicago. But never mind that now.
Overall, even under the deformed and wretched Bush regime and despite how much Dick Cheney's dead raisin of a heart leaps with excitement when he sees the videos of those bloodied and dead Tibetan protesters ("Damn hippies had it coming"), America is still far from the brutality and inhumanity happening right now in Lhasa and beyond.
Or maybe not. For here is what we do have: We have torture. We have a frighteningly simpleminded cowboy-wannabe president who supports and endorses the most inhumane treatment of prisoners imaginable despite its utter failure as a tactic, and this violent belief, this dark energy infects the national bloodstream like prehistoric malaria.
We have capital punishment. We remain the only so-called advanced first-world democracy on the planet that legally kills its own, and we top it off by imprisoning tens of thousands more merely for growing or selling a bit of marijuana or Ecstasy or meth, wasting tens of billions of dollars on an overflowing prison system and a failed drug war that no one at the highest levels of government dares speak against...
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
You have been warned!
Very clever of the left to always equate and equivocate every problem, situation and corrupt government in the world as the same in America.
Torture? Waterboarding or putting a hood over their heads, putting a leash on them, making them listen to loud music, having women in the same room as them, is not exactly the same as pulling their fingernails out, chopping parts off, raping family members in front of them, dropping people in shredders? I don't think so. Personally having to read the Chron is punishment enough for me.
The housing market going down? That's the same as banana republics? I don't think so. It may be bad banking and greed on the part of some unqualified home buyers and owners, but it's not the government or George Bush's fault.
That's like buying a Cadillac on a Pinto budget. That's called not doing the math.
Enough.
Mr. Morford needs to learn how to use Google:
Four prisoners executed in Japan
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1999877/posts
So I guess we’re not the only first-world democracy with the death penalty?
The irony never ceases to amaze me
Free TIBET???? but, don’t FREE IRAQ?????
From the title I thought it might be an article about how China is increasingly owning us and taking control of other parts of the world. Perhaps a point about how Tibet should be a lesson to the world about what China will do if given the chance. But nooooooooo, it’s a brain-dead screed about how Bush is the biggest evil in the world. The first U.S. President to receive the Dalai Lama in public.
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