"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
The Torturer-In-Chief Lectures Cuba While Gitmo Remains Open
"Of course, a US president lecturing the president of a nation he is a guest in regarding the arrest of US-backed agitators, while the US maintains a literal torture dungeon just on the other side of the island he is on, couldn’t be any more ironic or hypocritical. The US naval base at Guantanamo Bay hosts a “detention camp,” where prisoners are held, without charge or trial for years, are admittedly tortured through food and sleep deprivation as well as waterboarding – the practice of nearly drowning a victim repeatedly to extract information or false confessions."
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