I've watched it happen over the years since hate radio and its multimillionaire mavens first gave voice and increasing political clout to resentment, intolerance, bitterness, anger, frustration over broken dreams, and unfulfilled entitlement. We've turned mean. We've been encouraged to go onto knee-jerk, scorched-earth attack mode by politicians, activists, and media brokers who gained influence and financial reaffirmation. The loudest and most dominant voices don't urge us to find root causes of problems and their solutions, or to reach for true understanding. All we are told, and all we know anymore, is hitting, and hitting harder, and hurting deeper, killing, demonizing, punishing, mocking, name-calling, eviscerating, marginalizing, threatening, intimidating, bullying, bombing, and war-making.

The only thing we have to fear... Is not hitting them hard enough. Isn't that what FDR said?

It is time to return to the media laws of the 70s where a balance of opinion was required to keep your FCC license.

I have my own take on torture, debbyski probably heard it already. Since there is not enough space here for it, you can click on this link for more. But I can say this, it is evil.

You know, I was thinking, off the cuff.... do christians torture? is it christian to torture?

I suppose it is a historically rhetorical question, and somewhat sarcastically flippant.

I ask this question as we are being "led" by a "christian" government.... that as christians who so loudly hate gays ... could be so silent about torture.

I wouldn't mind it as much , if those little boys wearing those abhorrent tee-shirts in a recent clipmarks photo, wore tee-shirts which said "God hates torturers" instead.

@Ratilfar, you do an excellent job on all your podcasts. For those who do not listen, I recommend clicking on his provided link. Ratilfar spends a lot of time doing good things and he should feel proud of the time he spends so wisely.
And thank you a really good question NonStat.

Wow...thanks debbyski.

No Ratifar thank you for all that you do to make this world a better place

I couldn't have said it better myself. (Note: lots of people care).

And as best as I can tell, Christians torture and start wars. Muslims torture and start wars. Jews torture and start wars. Buddhist torture and start wars. Shintos torture and start wars.

The only people I heard of who claim not to torture and start wars are the Hopi Native America Indians.

...although, if true (possibly it is), they still had to defend themselves or they would have been eaten for lunch. (and tortured).

Tsk...tsk...all of humanity's (and Americas) charades are coming undone.

What's new? From the Puritans to the slave trade to Manifest Destiny to The Monroe Doctrine to "The business of America is business" to the Japanese internment camps to Vietnam to the MIC-- the Huge military budgets and Empire--What is new? Torture ain't new--it's just not bein' hidden so much by this buncha thugs--they just "Redefine" it!

Good points papananook.... I finally understood manifest destiny when I read Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee. Certainly different spin on it when you read Dee Brown's version over the high school history version.