Guantanamo Bay is no picnic, but hey - it's not like it's an Irish reform school. There's a new report out that documents 50 years of systematic physical, sexual and emotional abuse at Irish Reform schools. Rapes, beatings, humiliation, forced labor. Shocking. I had no idea Haliburton was even in the education business.
Have you read this report? It documents pervasive, excessive and arbitrary punishment going back to the 1930s. I think this is heading towards a conclusion none of us really want to confront: a U2 benefit concert.
The Catholic Church ran those schools. So it's another PR debacle for Christianity. The church defended its enhanced educational techniques, saying that the schools were tough, but according to John Woo, it wasn't torture.
Well, if we close Guantanamo Bay, at least we know where to send the terrorists. I say turn these guys over to the Sisters of Mercy.
One woman said she spent 18 years manufacturing rosaries - and that she was humiliated, beaten and raped whether she made her daily quota or not. If you happen to have one of those rosaries, it's easy to tell. Your prayers are answered by Dick Cheney.
A man who spent five years in schools run by the Christian Brothers said he was forced to wrap his urine stained sheets around his neck and parade in front of the other children when he'd wet his bed. Jesus hated poor bladder control.
George Bush told a group of graduating high school seniors in New Mexico that being an ex-president is liberating. He said he even enjoys walking his dog and scooping up doo-doo in a plastic bag. He said it's a lot easier than cleaning up after Cheney.
Cheney gave a big speech defending the use of harsh interrogation, which has kept the country safe and saved hundreds of thousands of lives over the last eight years. Now he says it's time to deal with the next threat: Mexicans with runny noses.
Cheney called America "a good country" and a "force for good in the world" because we stand for liberty, for human rights and the rational peaceful resolution of differences. And know you know why we started two wars, suspended habeas corpus, established secret prisons and slammed people into a few walls.
In the phrase "force for good," the accent belongs on "force."
