Incensed

so, apparently the pentagon released the new edition of the army field manual today, a revision that implicitly denies soldiers the rights to torture prisoners, that says that soldiers must obey many of the guidelines of the geneva convention, etc. within hours of the manual's release, bush gave a speech saying that the cia needed to torture people to get information, even though the only admissions we've been able to use have been given by people who were not tortured.

so, basically, what i'm hearing here is that bush just likes to fucking torture people.

he endorses the cia tactics that not only break international laws (that the u.s. agreed to, back in the day), but break our own laws as well. dude! this almost makes bush's speech two days ago, the one where he compared bin laden to hitler, seem almost funny. yeah, bin laden's a pretty twisted fucker, from all accounts, but bush is the one actually setting up death and torture camps, right fucking here on u.s. soil (and of course in cuba, cause we love the irony). oh yeah, and bush also acknowledged yesterday that we have secret cia prisons. isn't that great? he flat out, openly said, "yeah, we're totally torturing and unlawfully imprisoning people, but i betcha they're terrorists! and we gonna torture 'em until they admit it." this doesn't just sound like hitler's germany to me; this sounds like a cross between hitler and the horrific spanish inquisition, where church fathers (elected of god, just like bush?) would either kill you if you were a witch (terrorist) or torture you until you confessed you were a witch/terrorist, at which point the victim was usually dead or dying anyway. this is not okay; this is not stuff that happens to someone else; this is our motherfucking country, our words and votes and hopes that this megalomaniacal monkey is twisting to fit his depraved and downright cruel wishes. i don't know what to do to stop him, you know? maybe there's nothing i can do. my goddamned vote certainly doesn't mean anything, though i cast it again and again and again. i mean, when our own supreme court rules that the u.s. must follow the guidelines of the geneva convention (and the courts made that statement--again--on 29 june of this year) and then the puppeteer president says, "uhm, ...nah... we don't gotta do that," what the fuck are we to do? at this point...hell at the point three years ago when the idiot declared war on the entire middle east (one impoverished country at a time), we had every constitutional right to publicly hang him for high treason. with as many other treasonous acts as he's committed since then, we could probably kill his whole fucking family, rape him, and then set him on fire, just like the 5 u.s. soldiers did to the 14-year old iraqi girl, abeer hamza, back in march.

our country is being run by the powerhungry, by the cowering congress and courts that bow before them, by a homicidal maniac and buildings full of complacents afraid to lose their seats on the bench; it's being (over)run by a bunch of fucking skeksies. ugh. what's a gelfling to do? stay awake; stay aware. this gelfling will fight with the most powerful weapons i've got: the tempered steel of my words and the indomitable muscle of my love. always fight, always couteract evil with love, as powerfully as i can.

and fer cryin out loud, stay informed:

http://www.notinourname.org/
http://www.phrusa.org/ (physicians for human rights)
http://www.votersforpeace.us/
http://www.counterpunch.com/