I listened to some bonehead from the CIA on NPR this afternoon and he used the old canard, “Shouldn’t we use torture if we can save American lives?” He took it that his statement was inarguable.
I strongly disagree. I grew up in the land of the free and the home of the brave. I’m getting very tired of being told to be afraid. When I was growing up, I knew how I was probably going to die- a nuclear apocalypse of a war between the US and Soviet Union. Who's afraid of some rogue regime or band of zealots?
What’s the worst case scenario? A nuclear weapon takes out a million Americans? Let’s say 3 million. That’s one percent of the US population.
I would rather face a one percent chance of dying in a terror attack than live in a country that tortures people. The same goes for wiretapping, suspension of habeas corpus and the atrocities of Abu Graib. The next person that tells me, “But they cut heads off!” is going to get smacked. Let’s be brave again instead of scared.
I am not even vaguely fearful of terrorist attack.
I am terrified by the current administration.
I don’t want to be protected like this.
Stop being scared.
