A Divine Torture Cartoon
The Washington Post’s Tom Toles has a cartoon on Congress and torture that is worth its weight in thumbscrews.
The cartoon perfectly captures how Congress is partnering with the Bush administration in sanctioning U.S. barbarity. The cartoon is here - at least for today (9/26).
Yet, as long as congressmen blindfold themselves to any and all atrocities committed with their approval, they will likely consider themselves blameless.
And people ask me why I drink.
EDIT update: Patrick kindly provided the permanlink for the cartoon - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/opinions/cartoonsandvideos/toles_main.html?name=Toles&date=09262006
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Scott Horton
Comment on Tuesday 26th September 2006 @ 1:07 pm
Bovard for Congress!
Jim
Comment on Tuesday 26th September 2006 @ 1:40 pm
I would never be able to pass the Federal Election Commission’s background check for congressional candidates.
Saturdaynightspecial
Comment on Tuesday 26th September 2006 @ 5:07 pm
Yea, was a good cartoon. I sent it to the local press too.
Illinois
liberranter
Comment on Tuesday 26th September 2006 @ 6:17 pm
Sums up perfectly the criminal complicity of this gang of thugs on Crapital Hill (the Honorable Representative Ron Paul excepted, of course).
Good comeback to Scott Horton’s endorsement for your run for Congress (you also have a functioning brain stem and probably have no criminal proclivities, both of which would work heavily against you). However, SOMEBODY needs to keep Ron Paul company and give him some support.
Jim
Comment on Tuesday 26th September 2006 @ 6:22 pm
Thanks.
Ron Paul is my favorite congressman - he does great & heroic work.
I’m glad that folks like you and many others recognize and cheer him Paul on. Hopefully that helps encourage him on those days when he is on the right side of a 415-to-1 vote on some barbaric legislation.
Kevin B. O'Reilly
Comment on Tuesday 26th September 2006 @ 7:08 pm
That is an absolutely fantastic cartoon. Thanks for the pointer, Jim!
Victor Anderson
Comment on Tuesday 26th September 2006 @ 9:02 pm
The miserepublicans are dead wrong on rights. Salute!
George
Comment on Wednesday 27th September 2006 @ 9:52 am
Scott Horton: “Bovard for Congress!”
How can you wish such a fate on anyone?
Patrick
Comment on Wednesday 27th September 2006 @ 10:59 am
here’s a permalink for the cartoon in question:
I’m holding out hope
my frontline is that Congress won’t pass the bill in question
my second line of hope is that the SCOTUS’ll slap it down (unfortunately, I think that’ll take 2 years to happen, minimum)
barring that, I see convincing evidence that our Republic is dead as dogshit
http://www.d-n-i.net/fcs/fabius_forecast_7-2006_part2.htm
Jim
Comment on Wednesday 27th September 2006 @ 11:25 am
Patrick - thanks for the perma-link.
If I ever learn how to surf the Net, I could become dangerous.
Yes, this torture-tribunal bill is far more important than even most libertarian/anarchist/classical liberal types are recognizing.
Game, set, .. match?
MarkN
Comment on Thursday 28th September 2006 @ 8:12 pm
Even Hillary Clinton came out against torture. Yes, you can question her motives but she still did it.
Patrick
Comment on Friday 6th October 2006 @ 1:59 pm
has Bush actually signed the torture bill yet?
why the delay?
is the scofflaw in chief worried about what could happen if he signs it and then his party loses it’s grip on the legislative branch?
Jim
Comment on Friday 6th October 2006 @ 2:43 pm
Maybe Bush had a “Saul on the road to Damascus” moment and realizes that the act that Congress passed is an utter disgrace to America. Maybe Bush has realized that he will taint himself forever by putting his name on this blunt assault on the US Constitution.
Probably not.
Actually, Bush is probably just waiting for a more favorable slot for media coverage. He does not want the signing ceremony to be the second item on the evening news, just after the latest revelations of congressmen preying on teenage boys.
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