OUR OWN GOVERNMENTS ARE THE ENEMY

Whether those governments are socialistic, communistic, democratic, monarchys or just plain dictatorships they are all contemptible. Democratically elected governments are merely the recipients of votes from uninformed and ill informed citizens subjected to public relations campaigns, puffery and brazen lying. In other words either the best liars are elcted or the candidates who have gone the longest without being caught lying, cheating or stealing. Recent bad behaviour during an election campaign usually results in a loss although even that is no guarantee.

As if there was any doubt as to the moral vacuum in the United States we have just been blessed with a Senate Report advising us that the U.S. government are complicit in the use of torture. While they may claim that the CIA misled U.S. politicians, the only way for that to ring true is to brng the guilty parties to justice. In other words criminal charges and trials of any and all who looked the other way or were directly involved in physical mistreatment of captives. There need be no debate as to whether solitary confinement, sleep deprivation, rectal rehydration or waterboarding are defined as "torture" or not. All those behviours are brutal and should not be condoned in a civilized society. To date they have been condoned in the U.S. which speaks volumes about their society.

Yesterday's Waterloo Region Record carrys the story titled "Report lists CIA torture in secret "chambers of suffering". As stated by Senator Feinstein the findings are "...a stain on U.S. history". They are that and so much worse.