As the Senate Judiciary Hearing on Torture ended today, someone in the audience shouted out to Senator Lindsay Graham,
We want the rule of law for everyone; it's (torture's) illegal, Senator, or did you miss that?
Good ole Graham had just finished saying that torture has
been going on for five hundred years
inferring that if it’s been around so long, it must be okay. . .
Torture has been going on since the history of man. Just read the history of war around the world.
That doesn’t make it right. Or legal.
Over 400 years ago, Shakespeare, in Henry the V, which is quite a melodramatic and sentimental glorification of "God on our side" war (great speeches notwithstanding), has something to say about abuse of the enemy. . .
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