When Americans finally get Single Payer Health Care for all its Citizens, it will be the greatest humanitarian achievement since the liberation of the Concentration Camps in 1945.
And we owe it to history to track down, try, and imprison the bastards who propagated and profited from the current murderous system we have today.
And for that special group of people who actively worked to prevent a better system from being implemented decades ago, and who in the process have probably participated in the murder of nine Million Americans, maybe even torture should not be out of the question.
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This would not be torture to try and coerce someone into divulging secret information, Or even to lie about something so that the torturer could gain a political advantage over a political opponent.
But rather torture to serve one of the time-honored precepts that underlie the entire theory of punishment – namely to deter that person and other like-minded persons from ever attempting something of the same nature again.
And just as the punishment should fit the crime so should the torture.
So for those who would deny medical care for those with pre-existing conditions what could be more fair, than to inoculate those persons with a particularly unpleasant disease and then deny them medical treatment.
For doctors who kill a child - through clear - but court-protected incompetence, what could be a more fitting torture than to kill that person’s child - and the child of the Judges, who every day routinely refuse to allow the vast majority of potential mal-practice suits from even getting on the docket?
All of you who have gone through this know there is no greater pain in all the world than to lose a child – except to lose a child because someone wanted to "play doctor", and didn’t want to bother to learn the craft, or, who maybe, did learn the craft but then went to work in a hospital, where care is defined as the legally countenanced minimum possible level to avoid mal-practice claims while maximizing profit.
And in that same light of course we cannot forget about the insurance companies for whom profit is inversely proportional to the quality of care delivered.
Surely something approaching some of the later circles of Hell must be reserved for these vermin.
And as some of you begin to squirm here – remember this - torture is a very Christian thing.
One might say, in fact, that it is central to the religion itself.
It is a fundamental precept of Christianity, that you can be tortured forever, and ever, and ever, for simply being unable to believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God. And lying about your belief to avoid the torture will do no good. The torturer-in-chief can read your mind.
Make no mistake, torture as punishment has a strong place in this country’s culture.
I emphasize this last aspect only because it is quite clear that most of the people who think our current health care system is fine, are also the very same people who feel that torture is fine – in certain circumstances. And therefore of course they should be able to easily see why someone might at least in the abstract contemplate torturing them as punishment for using the health care system for their private gain.
And of course we can not leave out the media – the paid shills of a system as rotten as the Nazi concentration camps themselves, who parade in public as watchdogs of our rights and defenders of the Republic, while in the dark of night they take Judas silver to propagate the lies that make the true rulers of the country unconscionably wealthy at the expense of their country men’s lives.
In closing let me say that the purpose of this Diary is two fold
First I want to make it clear that I do not personally advocate torture and in a very real way I do not even advocate punishment. I do not believe that there is such a thing as Good and Evil - rather only, ignorance and illness.
But the fact is that even the Christian God advocates both punishment and torture and oddly enough most of the people who have supported and propagated and profited from this monstrosity that is our current health care system would overwhelmingly describe themselves as Christians – albeit Free Market Christians - so there is no reason not to explore the concept of torture as punishment, at least in the abstract. And that is purpose number one.
Purpose number two is to highlight why it is that we banned torture in our founding documents. And that reason was expressly to forbid torture as punishment. The Constitution in fact, says nothing about torture to extract desperately needed information from a foreign enemy – a precept that oddly even the supporters of torture do not use in their arguments.
And the reason for banning torture as punishment was very simple. The Founding Fathers knew all too well from their experiences with the English King and the Christian Church that people could be made to confess to lies under torture and, that being the case, there could then be no assurance at all that justice was being done unless torture, as punishment, was banned – and so it was.
So now let the great debate resume -
Shall we have true reform of our heath care system – meaning at minimum – Single Payer
Or has the time now finally come to contemplate the unthinkable.?
( Note Even though the Constitution does not bar torture except as punishment there are laws on our books that do so and torturing to extract information is therefor still a crime and worse after a person has been tortured it should be Constitutionally illegal to ever try him for any crime that he might have confessed )