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KoKo

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1. WHY!...
Mon Jun 29, 2015, 08:55 PM
Jun 2015

I've tried to think of reasons..but, this one seems to ring true. So many of them are "Bought and Paid For" and they do what they have to do...even if it means Endless War and Death of Millions all paid for by our Tax Dollars and out of the Pockets of the Poor and Disenfranchised. "Torture" is a word they can't connect with since they are so FAR removed from Those Who Are Being Tortured. They rationalize it all away that these are Human Beings who mostly were caught up in War and have no ability to be HEARD by LAWYER or TRIED BY JURY. But, then they are "DIFFERENT, because they aren't AMERICANS or our ALLIES...and they are just Lumped Together as "Terrorists. Hardly what we thought our Judicial System was about when we all grew up. But, then...."Things are Different" these days.

My take is that we no longer have Congress-Critters that truly represent the People.
And we don't have a president that will stand up and, at a minimum, reprimand the torturers.

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