Was It Torture that the Bush administration lawyers
allowed, within ‘limits’? My first question is how could they have known if it
was or was not torture? Had they tried the various techniques on themselves or
on each other in a specially equipped legal dungeon with a dispassionate group,
twelve of their peers, observing, taking snapshots, and helping to form a
decision? It is common to expect experts in any professional discipline to have
some direct experience living, or at least working within the niche where they
advise or decide.
Now that so many people worldwide are out of jobs, as a
nation we may be grateful for the visibility of strong, hands-on famous
role-models teaching us how to get and keep a job.
I suggest that any tribunal that seeks to pass judgment on
the people who allowed torture, and those who did the torturous acts, make it
their goal to give these folks their old jobs back—with slightly altered job
descriptions. Put them back to work as evaluators who are in a proper position
to decide just where the line is that demarcates torture from uncomfortable piffle.
Their daily work, on a contract of uncertain duration—(to assure their ‘security’)
would oblige them to subject themselves, and each other, to the same
experiences they once had decreed for others. At the end of that work they will
be able to render opinions and judgments of their own, on precisely where that
line aught to be drawn.
These serious legal issues are at the core of national and
worldwide debates that only seasoned field experts can hope to sort out for us.
We trusted them and depended upon them when they made their initial
determinations, and we should continue show our trust and loyalty and support now.
In a sentence, our hats are off to the lot of you as your head(s) are off to the dungeons,
and keep up the great work!
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