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The news that came out this weekend should have been on the front page, but I found it after news about Vin Diesel’s new movie in which he makes jokes about changing diapers. Diaper jokes get better play than news about the President of the United States breaking the law to enable to CIA to torture people these days. I call that a shadow across the dignity of America.

It turns out that President Bush himself authorized a plan to round up people in the United States, then send them to countries like Syria, Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia, where the prisoners would be “interrogated” in ways that are not legal in the United States. In short, President Bush authorized torture.

Reuters news agency cites a high-ranking source within the Bush White House as saying that this is okay, because, although many of the prisoners were tortured, none of them died as a result of the torture.

This is the new standard of morality in the Republican Homeland, once known as the United States of America: Torture is just fine, so long as you torture people in such a way that you don’t kill them.

Yet, I don’t see anyone today who seems very bothered by this news. “Things happen,” they say, and go about their ordinary business.

Someone, somewhere in America needs to stand up and ask in a loud voice, “Do we have no shame?!?”

No one else will ask the question, so let me be that person tonight. Do we in America have no shame anymore?

It is clearly, explictly against the law for prisoners to be shipped overseas to nations that are known to torture their prisoners. Syria, Jordan, Egypt and Saudi Arabia are nations that are known to torture their prisoners. President Bush ordered prisoners to be sent to these nations to be interrogated using extreme methods. President Bush broke the law.

It is also clearly, explicitly against the law for anyone in the American government to order torture to occur - anywhere at all, not just within American borders. Yet, President Bush sent prisoners to nations knowing that they would be tortured there. Indeed, President Bush appears to have sent these prisoners overseas so that they would be tortured. President Bush ordered torture. President Bush broke the law.

It is also clearly, explicitly against the law for the President of the United States to take people prisoner within the United States and deprive them of their legal rights to be told what crime they are being charged with, to be tried in a court of law by a jury of peers, and to be represented by legal counsel. President Bush ordered prisoners to be held without being charged with a crime, without trial, and without legal representation. President Bush ordered prisoners to be sent overseas so that the government could keep the prisoners secret, and make the prisoners incapable of making appeals for their rights under the law. President Bush broke the law.

President Bush broke the law, over and over again, not just to keep his wife from finding out that he got a blow job on the side, but in order to torture hundreds of human beings.

This is serious stuff, America! This is the kind of thing that Americans fought to be free from back in 1776! Are you so lazy, America, that you will allow a new King George to treat the law like a little plaything that he owns, and can use and abuse at his will?

What will it take, America, for you to stand up and demand that President Bush be brought to justice for his crimes?

Have you no shame, America? Have you no shame?!?