This is the video age, right? What with YouTube and Google Video and 300 cable channels and whatnot streaming into every home...
So why hasn't anybody used these tools to make an effective case about what the Bush administration wants? About what torture really is?
Here's a
pale example of waterboarding from Robin William's movie, Jacob the Liar. It's disturbing, even knowing that it's altogether make believe.
What might happen, then, if under carefully controlled conditions (say, an EMT team standing by with a fully equiped emergency vehicle) a willing "victim" was really subjected to the torture methods that the Bush regime wants? And by someone who was trained by the Bush regime's own mionions? (I'm thinking an ex-CIA type.)
I can't imagine a greater kick in the gut -- or a faster end to the argument of what might be torture -- then for millions of "security moms" and other fence-sitters to see exactly what their little Susie or Johnny might be subjected to. And if we can break that logjam, maybe some eyes will open as to the rest of the items on the Bush regime's wish list.
It's frankly disturbing to me even to suggest it; it would take considerable courage to do it. There is, however, so much in the balance...