ANewDomain.net Cartoon: How 2000s Era Torture Is Like 1960s Free Love

10 years ago

Originally published at ANewDomain.net:

After the Senate Torture Report comes out, the mainstream media spins: After 9/11, America lost its way. Not me. I didn’t lose my way. I didn’t want to bomb or torture anyone. Maybe you didn’t either.

Ted Rall

http://rall.com

Ted Rall is a syndicated political cartoonist for Andrews McMeel Syndication and WhoWhatWhy.org and Counterpoint. He is a contributor to Centerclip and co-host of "The Final Countdown" talk show on Radio Sputnik. He is a graphic novelist and author of many books of art and prose, and an occasional war correspondent. He is, recently, the author of the graphic novel "2024: Revisited."

4 Comments.

Glenn
December 20, 2014 5:23 PM

Torture is like free “love”. Rape is a large component of torture.

The 59% of Americans who approve of torture have reason to celebrate in the normalization of rape.
derlehrer
December 21, 2014 3:25 PM

Ted, I didn’t lose my way either….
I was protesting the invasion of Iraq before the fact; and I sent emails demanding the closure of the Guantanamo internment (torture) camp.
It’s a shame that the majority of U.S. citizens have been brainwashed.
This is not the United States I knew in my youth. (I was serving in the U.S. Army when “Free Love” and drugs were available, especially at Haight-Ashbury; and I missed Woodstock, too!!) 🙁
derlehrer
December 22, 2014 1:56 PM

http://justsecurity.org/18221/knew-illegal/
derlehrer
December 22, 2014 1:58 PM

“The report contains a key passage on page 33 revealing that senior lawyers at the CIA in mid 2002, at the very beginning of the CIA’s program, drafted a letter to the Attorney General in which it is expressly acknowledged that the interrogation tactics that came to be known as “enhanced interrogation techniques” violated the US torture statute.”

http://justsecurity.org/18221/knew-illegal/