M: OMFG, when it comes to whining, there is nothing I love more than that. Again, I'll ask you a question I've asked you before. If your home were invaded or if you were attacked, would you invite the person to sit down, have a cup of tea, and chat it out?
No, but the cases of torture have not involved military men reacting to an imminent threat. They've involved the systematic torture of prisoners, many of whom were no threat whatsoever.
Or maybe you LIKE the idea of, say, our soldiers picking up some harmless taxicab driver and slowly killing him by reducing his legs to mush? Love that, do you?
M: Hell no! If you expect the U.S. military to do that, then you're a hypocrite of the highest order.
I expect the US military not practice a policy of torturing prisoners. We didn't do it during past wars. I don't expect us to do it today.
M: As for your assumption that the Oath Keepers are only vocal now because of anti-Obama sentiment, why were they against the Patriot Act? They've been very vocal about it, and you can verify that just by doing a simple search on Google or YouTube.
If so, they only got really vocal about it after President Obama was elected. Funny that.
What do you think the Oath Keepers response would have been to the south seceding? Or to the president ordering in the national guard to help integrate public schools in the south?
Credits & Style Info
Talk Politics. A place to discuss politics without egomaniacal mods
![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
(no subject)
Date: 22/4/10 03:14 (UTC)No, but the cases of torture have not involved military men reacting to an imminent threat. They've involved the systematic torture of prisoners, many of whom were no threat whatsoever.
Or maybe you LIKE the idea of, say, our soldiers picking up some harmless taxicab driver and slowly killing him by reducing his legs to mush? Love that, do you?
M: Hell no! If you expect the U.S. military to do that, then you're a hypocrite of the highest order.
I expect the US military not practice a policy of torturing prisoners. We didn't do it during past wars. I don't expect us to do it today.
M: As for your assumption that the Oath Keepers are only vocal now because of anti-Obama sentiment, why were they against the Patriot Act? They've been very vocal about it, and you can verify that just by doing a simple search on Google or YouTube.
If so, they only got really vocal about it after President Obama was elected. Funny that.
What do you think the Oath Keepers response would have been to the south seceding? Or to the president ordering in the national guard to help integrate public schools in the south?