The Roanoke Slant

Roanoke Times, 5/3/09, Pg Horiz 1: We can’t let torture destroy justice.
A rambling 220 square inch expose by Mark Danner, a prof. at UCs Berkeley, admonishing everyone for the horrors of water-boarding those nice folks and their associates who have bombed and killed many Americans including 3,000 on 9/11.
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This expose is in addition to almost daily comments by Obama and his associates including selective disclosure of documents that describe the analysis and conclusions by those who were missioned to protect the citizens of America against a vicious organization of terrorists who have and still are focused on killing American people.
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Caught up in all this hindsight and retribution are those who had a sworn duty to protect America but now have selective amnesia and a new moral view. Included is Nancy “The Broom” Pelosi who is third in line for the Presidency. She is now making daily “adjustments” to her recollections about what she knew and when she knew it. Many other Senators and Congresspersons were informed and consistent with their oath of office and their responsibilities to “protect and defend” concluded that water-boarding was not sufficiently abhorrent when measured against the war that had been launched against our people.
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Perhaps it would be reasonable and prudent to relate water-boarding to the daily use by police of “tasering” disruptive people who don’t want to be arrested. Having seen many videos of the use of this tool, and the fact that each year numerous persons die after being “tased” one might conclude that water-boarding to save innocent lives may be a reasonable process and is not “destroying justice” but in fact may be exercising justice.
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Perhaps during a time of war the law of retaliation (lex talionis) is appropriate. This recognized military theory of retributive justice says that reciprocity should be equal to the wrong suffered; "life for life, wound for wound, stripe for stripe. One might conclude that a minute of drowning-fright to save innocent lives is far less retributive than the wrong we have suffered and continue to suffer.
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As an aside; isn’t it interesting that most of these pious moralists are pro-abortionists!
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Prior Item:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/10/good-torture-to-save-democrats.html
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