And the idea that somehow we are torturing people in Guantanamo is absolutely not true, unless you consider having to eat chicken three times a week is torture
Their food is better than the food that they fed us as senators and staff that went down
They wouldn’t be treated any better in the United States, and they wouldn’t have the tropical breezes blowing through
anyone, any detainee, over 55 has an opportunity to have a colonoscopy
These could almost be offered up without comment except that some individuals apparently lacking any sense of irony or self-awareness will publically argue that waterboarding isn’t torture because our soldiers have sometimes done it to their own comrades during rigorous survival training. What conservatives seemingly fail to grasp, time and time again, is the important concept of consent. Consent is the difference between training and torture. Consent is the difference between a vacation and indefinite detention. Consent is the difference between sex and rape. Consent is the difference between motherhood and forced pregnancy. Consent is the difference between taxation and extortion. Consent is the difference between art and war crime.
As a man approaching a certain age I’m particularly struck by the last quote. The honorable Senator from Oklahoma meant the colonoscopy remark as a joke, of course, because as all rich white people know a colonoscopy is a terrible inconvenience and a painful embarrassment of getting old.
Now none of them take 'em up on it, because once they explain what it is, none of them want to do it
Funny. Unless you’re one of 20% of Americans with no health care insurance at all, or the nearly all Americans who pay way too much relative to the rest of the world. Why are the law-abiding, tax-paying workers of this country entitled to less preventative care than the most hardened of criminals in solitary lockup?
So we’ll take our government colonoscopies please. By the way Senator, they are much less icky and uncomfortable when done with consent.
- jack*
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