akuma587 on 30 April 2009
rocketpig said: Waterboarding is wrong. Sleep deprivation and starvation is wrong.
But playing Britney Spears non-stop to a suspected terrorist? That shit is funny. |
Nicely put. I don't think sleep deprivation and starvation are inherently wrong as long as they are done reasonably. If we are keeping someone up for a week straight, that's way too much. If we aren't feeding them for days at a time, that is too much.
It was pretty funny some of the random ass shit they were playing to these people, like Sesame Street music. But I also think it was a slap in the face to the artists who made a lot of this music and actively protested the government doing this.
I don't understand how people can complain about big government but have no problem with the government doing all kinds of unspeakable things in backrooms in our country. Big government that can throw you in a box and take away the key is the type of big government you should genuinely be afraid of. You may not agree when the government grows in size, but at least it isn't going to strap you do a wooden horse and do all kinds of unspeakable things to you while playing re-runs of Green Acres.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson