Gaining public acceptance of torture through humor and the use of the "24" rationale

rudy giuliani on torture...

If there was a terrorist attack on an American city, and it was clear that there were all going to be additional attacks, some of them were going to be nuclear, and they were planned for the next couple of days and one of the people involved in it was arrested, and the head of the C.I.A. came to you and said we have to do certain things to get the information from him, would you authorize it? And I think most of us answered it, yes we would, we would authorize doing whatever we thought was the most effective to get that information.

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And I see, when the Democrats are talking about torture, they’re not just talking about even this definition of waterboarding, which again, if you look at the liberal media and you look at the way they describe it, you could say it was torture and you shouldn’t do it. But they talk about sleep deprivation. I mean, on that theory, I’m getting tortured running for president of the United States. That’s plain silly. That’s silly.

this is just one more example of how our propaganda machine and its spokespeople are assiduously working to gain acceptance for torture as a norm of our society... such hypothetical scenarios are calculated to inflame and mislead and such mockery is neither cute nor in the least bit funny... it's merely camouflage for the real intent - persuading us that torture is a legitimate tool of our government... it's sad and sick and it's destroying our national soul...

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