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Posted by realpolitik in General Discussion (1/22-2007 thru 12/14/2010)
Wed Mar 18th 2009, 12:09 PM
I am going to suggest the unthinkable. But it needs to be brought up and discussed.

Let me begin with a couple premises.

First, we are a nation that tortures. We do not extent constitutional rights to persons of interest or enemy combatants (or whatever we are going to call them now).

Second, the behavior of financial service executives, whether or not it is actually criminal., it rises to the level of economic terrorism.

This leads us to the possibility of waterboarding the masters of the universe for information about their criminality.

Since we cannot get their bonus money back, we need to consider that the only moral hazard left for these economic terrorists is extraordinary rendition.
Doing this, however, does vindicate Cheney.

So what is it to be then?
Do we torture the bastards?
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