After reading about the release of the torture memos I decided to check out RedState.com, knowing that, if nothing else, the fragile emotional state of its contributors would be entertaining.
I got more than I expected.
In a diary entitled "On This Day of the CIA Memo Release, A Polemic", Jeff Emanuel (a rare member of the frothing right who has actually served in the military) complains that the word torture has lost its meaning since "methods far less offensive than the majority of interrogation techniques" he endured in military SERE training are now included.
You can read his whole argument here:
http://www.redstate.com/...
What Mr. Emanuel fails to grasp is that the conditions he endured in his military training were administered by people who he knew were on his side. He didn't have to fear that the people might hate him and take it too far.
One commenter, named Madhatter425 notes another uncomfortable fact that Mr. Emanuel doesn't get: that the methods described happen to be, according to the law, torture.
Torture is torture...drilling someone’s knees, gouging their eyes, slamming their heads against the wall and/or swinging them around the room using a towel around the neck IS torture (so says the International Red Cross - who determines what is, and is not, torture). This isn’t a partisan issue - this is an issue of law.
This pushed Mr. Emanuel over the edge.
And poking you in the side and bashing your skull in... ....both "making contact." You’re kidding about there being no distinction, right?
Thank goodness p*ssies like you aren’t responsible for securing this country. I hope your house is never broken into, too, lest you scream and throw a wet rag in the vicinity of the burglar (can’t throw anything at him, you see, because it might hit him, and doing so with a dishcloth is the same as doing so with a wrecking ball).
Oh, and you’d better not scream too loudly, either, lest you torture his eardrums, which is the same as intentionally using sound waves to burst them.
Seriously, how comfortable and pampered have we made this nation, that we end up with candy-@$$es like you?
Wow. All the commenter did was post something factually accurate.
And they wonder why people worry about rightwing extremism. It isn't like their movement has produced lunatics who shoot cops, Unitarians, or blow up federal buildings. Their rhetoric is very often as violent as it is illogical.