Special Comment on Torture
Even now and then, Keith Olbermann speaks with clarity. Maybe he needs a weekend off. Maybe he needs a couple of great football games. I don’t know. What I do know is that this special comment is excellent. Keith’s own words (I guess he wrote them) shine a light into these dark times.
All of it is now, after one revelation last week, transparently clear for what it is: the pathetic and desperate manipulation of the government, the refocusing of our entire nation, toward keeping this mock president and this unstable vice president and this departed wildly self-overrating attorney general, and the others, from potential prosecution for having approved or ordered the illegal torture of prisoners being held in the name of this country.
“Waterboarding is torture,” Daniel Levin was to write. Daniel Levin was no theorist and no protester. He was no troublemaking politician. He was no table-pounding commentator. Daniel Levin was an astonishingly patriotic American and a brave man.
Brave not just with words or with stances, even in a dark time when that kind of bravery can usually be scared or bought off. (more…)
