Do I want to help give someone who believes in a divine plan to torture non-Christians, who is willing to start a war with Russia, the power to press The Button, and start a nuclear war?

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Children don’t understand that Batman is himself a criminal, and a threat to the security of the people of Gotham. They’ll never see a movie in which Batman makes a mistake, and persecutes an innocent person he suspects of being an arch-villain. In real life, government agents given the dark vigilante role that Batman represents make those mistakes on a very frequent basis.

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George W. Bush has admitted that “I Approved” a meeting of senior Bush administration officials dedicated to approving the implementation of torture by the U.S. Government. This is against the law governing conspiracy to commit torture.
CNN, CBS, NBC, the Los Angeles Times, the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times have completely ignored […]

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“Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.” Voltaire said it centuries ago, but it still holds true today. There’s a group of authoritarians in our country who are doing everything they can to make you afraid of things that almost certainly will not harm you, like terrorist bombs. […]

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A green face animated video discusses the sham promise of Homeland Security, that we can all be safe if only we sacrifice our liberty.

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Just as they do every year, thousands of progressive activists gathered outside of Fort Benning, Georgia in November 2007 to protest the instruction in torture techniques that is believed to be given there by the U.S. military to soldiers and agents from foreign countries.
The presence of these activists in vigil, for many long years, against […]

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In a USA Today editorial this morning, Republican Congressman Trent Franks manages to warp the fabric of American freedom in two different ways in his effort to justify torture.
First, he claims that “America’s distinguishing hallmark, its bedrock foundation, is that we hold to the self-evident truth that all men are created by God”. Of […]

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Three kittens got spacey,
and supported Mukasey,
Then they began to cry,
“Oh Voter dear,
We sadly fear,
Our scruples we have lost.”
“He supported torture
And what is much more, sir
He rejected rule of law.
We could have said no
But he smiled at us so…
Hey — could you give us some cash?”
What! Lost your scruples,
Is that really trueples?
Then you shall have […]

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On November 5, 2007, citizens gathered outside Senator Charles Schumer’s office in New York City to talk to him or his staff regarding Schumer’s decision to let Michael Mukasey become Attorney General without indicating whether waterboarding fit the legal definitions of torture and whether therefore those who conspired to use waterboarding in the Bush administration […]

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What’s wrong with waterboarding torture? If you’re an evangelical Christian, you ought to find a great deal that’s wrong with it, just on a strategic level. The support of evangelical Christian organizations for waterboarding and other forms of torture by the American government is threatening to provoke a schism within evangelical Christianity, as […]

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