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Taking a stand against torture
Berkshire Easgle ^ | Saturday, October 08 | Editorial

Posted on 10/08/2005 5:23:06 AM PDT by baystaterebel

Senator John McCain, who was subjected to years of horrific treatment at the hands of the North Vietnamese in a prisoner of war camp, knows more than most people about prisoner abuse and torture. That's why the Arizona Republican's appeal for the United States to adhere to humane standards when it cares for prisoners in the war on terror was accepted by his Senate colleagues, who voted 90-9 for his bill to regulate how U.S. armed forces treat captured enemies. We hope President Bush will end his pointless resistance and back the measure. The vote represents one of the only times Congress has dared to challenge the White House during the prosecution of a "war against terror" that has consistently embarrassed the United States. That the White House would come out against Senator McCain's anti-torture bill is disappointing yet hardly surprising, and it has even threatened to veto the spending bill calling for $445 billion for defense that includes the McCain measure.

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To: SurroundedByLibs

azatlan.net??? Hmmm....


21 posted on 10/18/2005 2:10:39 PM PDT by cyborg (I'm on the 24 plan having the best day ever.)
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To: SurroundedByLibs

Aztlan.net is, like such a reliable, unbiased source.

B'zoff, already.


22 posted on 10/18/2005 2:11:35 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("Neither the depth of despondency nor the height of euphoria tells you how long either will last. ")
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To: SurroundedByLibs

23 posted on 10/18/2005 2:12:00 PM PDT by MikefromOhio (Pwner of Noobs)
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To: cyborg

Racist, anti-semitic, wacka-doo nutcases.


24 posted on 10/18/2005 2:12:08 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("Neither the depth of despondency nor the height of euphoria tells you how long either will last. ")
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To: SurroundedByLibs

I think you are all paranoid and laugh out loud hysterical! Wait till I show some of my friends this thread. Can I read some of your statements on the radio? Should be a good laugh. Reading something which is this hate-filled shows who the true America-haters are.

The guy who talked about liberals begging for mercy in front of an open grave with a gun to their head, needs help quick. That is sick. In America we don't kill people for their beliefs. He should read a book on the psychological process of "othering".

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1503208/posts?page=22#22




Hey SBL, STFU....


25 posted on 10/18/2005 2:13:50 PM PDT by MikefromOhio (Pwner of Noobs)
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To: SurroundedByLibs

26 posted on 10/18/2005 2:15:10 PM PDT by Dead Corpse (Anyone who needs to be persuaded to be free, doesn't deserve to be. -El Neil)
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To: SurroundedByLibs

Sorry, if your source is aztlan.net, you got snookered.

A troll, "Harvard Man", used that site to 'prove' that there had never been a temple built by Herod the Great in Jerusalem.
Aztlan.net is rabidly anti-Semitic, and all for giving Texas and teh US southwest to Mexico..


27 posted on 10/18/2005 2:18:18 PM PDT by Darksheare (Cellphones, the Wholly Roamin' Empire.)
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To: SurroundedByLibs

IB4TZ!!11!!1! FTW!1!!1


28 posted on 10/18/2005 2:21:01 PM PDT by BJClinton (Caliphate? Let’s Motivate!)
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To: SurroundedByLibs
Just wanted to get my ib4tz in. To address your post, these have been debunked repeatedly. They are shot in a porno studio, with professional actors. Idiot lefties and third worlders feel better about themselves looking at porn that they think is proof of US atrocities.

Now turn your computer off before your mom comes in to your room and finds out you're looking at porn on the internet!
29 posted on 10/18/2005 2:23:35 PM PDT by BJClinton (Caliphate? Let’s Motivate!)
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To: Dead Corpse; Tax-chick; MikeinIraq; cyborg; Darksheare; BJClinton; SurroundedByLibs

And the kitten agrees

30 posted on 10/18/2005 2:29:29 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Warning: Not a Romantic or hero worshiper. Attempts to tug at my heartstrings annoy me... and I bite)
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To: SurroundedByLibs

31 posted on 10/18/2005 2:32:45 PM PDT by Dead Corpse (Anyone who needs to be persuaded to be free, doesn't deserve to be. -El Neil)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

Nice kitten.


32 posted on 10/18/2005 2:36:53 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("Neither the depth of despondency nor the height of euphoria tells you how long either will last. ")
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To: Tax-chick
Thank you.

It's his first hunt.

33 posted on 10/18/2005 2:49:42 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Warning: Not a Romantic or hero worshiper. Attempts to tug at my heartstrings annoy me... and I bite)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

He's adorable.


34 posted on 10/18/2005 2:52:17 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("Neither the depth of despondency nor the height of euphoria tells you how long either will last. ")
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To: SurroundedByLibs; timpad; TBarnett34; MeekOneGOP; PetroniDE; Lady Jag; mhking; glock rocks; ...
Very interesting....Do you like kitties?

Please let me know if you want ON or OFF my Viking Kitty/ZOT ping list!. . .don't be shy.

35 posted on 10/18/2005 2:53:16 PM PDT by darkwing104 (Let's get dangerous)
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To: baystaterebel

NUTS


36 posted on 10/18/2005 2:58:42 PM PDT by JamminJAY (This space for rent)
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To: SurroundedByLibs

37 posted on 10/18/2005 3:13:31 PM PDT by reagan_fanatic (Darwinism is a belief in the meaninglessness of existence - R. Kirk)
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To: SurroundedByLibs
Dear SurroundedByLibs:

You swine. You vulgar little maggot. You worthless bag of filth. As they say in Texas, I'll bet you couldn't pour p!ss out of a boot with instructions on the heel. You are a canker. A sore that won't go away. I would rather kiss a lawyer than be seen with you. You're a putrescent mass, a walking vomit. You are a spineless little worm deserving nothing but the profoundest contempt. You are a jerk, a cad, a weasel. Your life is a monument to stupidity. You are a stench, a revulsion, a big suck on a sour lemon. You are a bleating foal, a curdled staggering mutant dwarf smeared richly with the effluvia and offal accompanying your alleged birth into this world. An insensate, blinking calf, meaningful to nobody, abandoned by the puke-drooling, giggling beasts who sired you and then killed themselves in recognition of what they had done. I will never get over the embarrassment of belonging to the same species as you. You are a monster, an ogre, a malformity. I barf at the very thought of you. You have all the appeal of a paper cut. Lepers avoid you. You are vile, worthless, less than nothing. You are a weed, a fungus, the dregs of this earth. And did I mention you smell? Try to edit your responses of unnecessary material before attempting to impress us with your insight. The evidence that you are a nincompoop will still be available to readers, but they will be able to access it more rapidly. You snail-skulled little rabbit. Would that a hawk pick you up, drive its beak into your brain, and upon finding it rancid set you loose to fly briefly before spattering the ocean rocks with the frothy pink shame of your ignoble blood. May you choke on the queasy, convulsing nausea of your own trite, foolish beliefs. You are weary, stale, flat and unprofitable. You are grimy, squalid, nasty and profane. You are foul and disgusting. You're a fool, an ignoramus. Monkeys look down on you. Even sheep won't have sex with you. You are unreservedly pathetic, starved for attention, and lost in a land that reality forgot. And what meaning do you expect your delusionally self-important statements of unknowing, inexperienced opinion to have with us? What fantasy do you hold that you would believe that your tiny-fisted tantrums would have more weight than that of a leprous desert rat, spinning rabidly in a circle, waiting for the bite of the snake? You are a waste of flesh. You have no rhythm. You are ridiculous and obnoxious. You are the moral equivalent of a leech. You are a living emptiness, a meaningless void. You are sour and senile. You are a disease, you puerile, one-handed, slack-jawed, drooling, meatslapper. On a good day you're a half-wit. You remind me of drool. You are deficient in all that lends character. You have the personality of wallpaper. You are dank and filthy. You are asinine and benighted. You are the source of all unpleasantness. You spread misery and sorrow wherever you go. You smarmy lagerlout git. You bloody woofter sod. Bugger off, pillock. You grotty wanking oik artless base-court apple-john. You clouted boggish foot-licking twit. You dankish clack-dish plonker. You gormless crook-pated tosser. You churlish boil-brained clotpole ponce. You cockered bum-bailey poofter. You craven dewberry pisshead cockup pratting naff. You gob-kissing gleeking flap-mouthed coxcomb. You dread-bolted fobbing beef-witted clapper-clawed flirt-gill. You are a fiend and a coward, and you have bad breath. You are degenerate, noxious and depraved. I feel debased just for knowing you exist. I despise everything about you, and I wish you would go away. I cannot believe how incredibly stupid you are. I mean rock-hard stupid. Dehydrated-rock-hard stupid. Stupid, so stupid it goes way beyond the stupid we know into a whole different dimension of stupid. You are trans-stupid stupid. Meta-stupid. Stupid collapsed on itself so far that even the neutrons have collapsed. Stupid gotten so dense that no intellect can escape. Singularity stupid. Blazing hot mid-day sun on Mercury stupid. You emit more stupid in one second than our entire galaxy emits in a year. Quasar stupid. Your writing has to be a troll. Nothing in our universe can really be this stupid. Perhaps this is some primordial fragment from the original big bang of stupid. Some pure essence of a stupid so uncontaminated by anything else as to be beyond the laws of physics that we know. I'm sorry. I can't go on. This is an epiphany of stupid for me. After this, you may not hear from me again for a while. I don't have enough strength left to deride your ignorant questions and half baked comments about unimportant trivia, or any of the rest of this drivel. Duh. The only thing worse than your logic is your manners. I have snipped away most of what you wrote, because, well... it didn't really say anything. Your attempt at constructing a creative post was pitiful. I mean, really, stringing together a bunch of insults among a load of babbling was hardly effective... Maybe later in life, after you have learned to read, write, spell, and count, you will have more success. True, these are rudimentary skills that many of us "normal" people take for granted that everyone has an easy time of mastering. But we sometimes forget that there are "challenged" persons in this world who find these things more difficult. If I had known, that this was your case then I would have never read your post. It just wouldn't have been "right". Sort of like parking in a handicap space. I wish you the best of luck in the emotional, and social struggles that seem to be placing such a demand on you. P.S.: You are hypocritical, greedy, violent, malevolent, vengeful, cowardly, deadly, mendacious, meretricious, loathsome, despicable, belligerent, opportunistic, barratrous, contemptible, criminal, fascistic, bigoted, racist, sexist, avaricious, tasteless, idiotic, brain-damaged, imbecilic, insane, arrogant, deceitful, demented, lame, self-righteous, byzantine, conspiratorial, satanic, fraudulent, libelous, bilious, splenetic, spastic, ignorant, clueless, illegitimate, harmful, destructive, dumb, evasive, double-talking, devious, revisionist, narrow, manipulative, paternalistic, fundamentalist, dogmatic, idolatrous, unethical, cultic, diseased, suppressive, controlling, restrictive, malignant, deceptive, dim, crazy, weird, dystopic, stifling, uncaring, plantigrade, grim, unsympathetic, jargon-spouting, censorious, secretive, aggressive, mind-numbing, arassive, poisonous, flagrant, self-destructive, abusive, socially-retarded, puerile, and generally Not Good.

38 posted on 10/18/2005 3:22:04 PM PDT by PilloryHillary (Government is the only enterprise in the world which expands in size when its failures increase.)
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To: SurroundedByLibs
Your post doesn't really warrant a response, it is that ridiculous.

But I'm in a good mood today, waiting for El Rushbo to filet Colmes tonight.....so I'll post this.


39 posted on 10/18/2005 3:23:23 PM PDT by RushCrush (The Original Harriet Miers Free Zone ™)
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To: SurroundedByLibs

Not only are you stupid, as I have elaborated upon in great detail, but you are also, no doubt, ugly. I would venture to say that you are so ugly, both in mind, soul and outward appearance as to be revolting to the sight. Gut-wrenching, barf-bag filling, hang-a-pork-chop-around-your-neck-to-get-the-dog-to-play-with-you ugly. Mind-numbingly ugly. So ugly that you could look the medusa square in the eye and turn HER into stone. Naw, I bet you're even uglier than that. So ugly that in comparison to your visage, a bucket-full of penguin crap would be regarded as an artful masterpiece. Monumentally ugly. So ugly that If I had to look directly at you, my autonomic reflexes would cause me to soil my drawers. Worse - if your dead, decrepit corpse was fed into a tree-chipper, the chipper would malfunction and barf out tree-chipper teeth. Black-holes would refuse to allow you past their event-horizon for fear of contamination. THAT's how UGLY you are.

YYYYYYYYYYAAAAAAAAAAAACCCCCCCCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKKKKK!

You are a craven scumbag not worthy to lick the sweat from the festering testicles of a dead, decomposing camel.


40 posted on 10/18/2005 3:43:55 PM PDT by roaddog727 (P=3/8 A. or, P=plenty...............)
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