that our supposed president has to arm twist our Senators, and those same Senators to capitulate to said arm twisting to allow him to re-write the laws on torture, to allow the use of torture, to define torture itself, to retroactively legalize torture, to decide who needs to be tortured, for how long and in what manner, that this debate even took place in The United States of America, is something I don't think I will ever be able to reconcile. This throwback to another, much darker era in human history must not be allowed to become the law of this land. If you don't know in your heart what human dignity is, if you need it explained to you, then you are lost. You are no longer a human being.

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