kpete paints with a broad brush

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kpete  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)  Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Fri May-01-09 02:10 PM
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Mormons played key role in Bush torture policy   Updated at 2:19 PM
   
Friday, May 01, 2009
Mormons played key role in Bush torture policy
by John Aravosis (DC) on 5/01/2009 10:00:00 AM
From the Salt Lake Tribune:
http://www.sltrib.com/ci_12256286?source=most_viewed

Although the decisions which put us in the grim business of torture, body-snatching, extraordinary renditions, making people disappear, indefinite confinement without charges and warrantless wiretapping were made by the president and vice president, members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints served as helpful enablers. Not only did they provide the legal architecture, they provided the "scientific" patina for the plunge into the barbaric business of torture.

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Two devout Mormons also engineered the more grisly wet work. Because the CIA lacked personnel in 2001 with interrogation expertise, the agency turned to two psychologists, James E. Mitchell and John B. Jessen, who had worked with the Air Force's Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape programs. Neither had an intelligence or interrogation background or had experience with Muslim terrorists, but, according to the FBI, they had experience in designing, testing, implementing and monitoring torture techniques that were illegal in the United States and elsewhere in the civilized world...

Mitchell advised that suspects must be treated like dogs in a cage. "It's like an experiment, when you apply electric shocks to a caged dog, after a while, he's so diminished, he can't resist."

more at:
http://www.americablog.com/2009/05/mormons-played-key-r...

kpete, if you keep stirring the pot, I can make you uncomfortable


Yes, an entire religion can be called out for terror.

Ummm...just asking here...if we can call out all Mormons for torture...


DOES THAT MEAN WE CAN CALL OUT ISLAM FOR TERRORISM?

Probably not.


Kpete is one of the main pot-stirrers over there at DU, but little do the idiots know that she's an extremely wealthy woman who lives in a McMansion in a gated community.

And if kpete keeps up with the religious persecution, I'll be happy to send some of her bons mots to her employers.

[franksolich]

Kpete is one of the main pot-stirrers over there at DU, but little do the idiots know that she's an extremely wealthy woman who lives in a McMansion in a gated community.

Oh yes.

She's the sexually-frustrated racist babbling sister primitive's thinner, richer, half.

[BannedFromDU]

Oh yes.

She's the sexually-frustrated racist babbling sister primitive's thinner, richer, half.

Really? Which is that?

[franksolich]

Really? Which is that?

The "Babylon Sister" primitive, from down there in Texas.

Both the babbling sister primitive and the kaput primitive have the same habit of posting articles from questionable sources, as too does the Swanson TV dinner primitive, the "DavidSwanson" primitive.

They just coast the internet, swimming among questionable web-sites, picking up turds here-and-there, and posting them on Skins's island.

The babbling sister primitive sometimes makes her own comments, while the kaput primitive does only very rarely, if at all.

[Ralph Wiggum]

The "Babylon Sister" primitive, from down there in Texas.

Both the babbling sister primitive and the kaput primitive have the same habit of posting articles from questionable sources, as too does the Swanson TV dinner primitive, the "DavidSwanson" primitive.

They just coast the internet, swimming among questionable web-sites, picking up turds here-and-there, and posting them on Skins's island.

The babbling sister primitive sometimes makes her own comments, while the kaput primitive does only very rarely, if at all.

Almost all of the sites that kpete uses as references make Alex Jones and Wayne Madsen seem sane.  And those are two of the "major" nutjob sites that cannot be linked to at DU.

[franksolich]

Almost all of the sites that kpete uses as references make Alex Jones and Wayne Madsen seem sane.  And those are two of the "major" nutjob sites that cannot be linked to at DU.

That's why I always kind of halfway sort of wondered if the kaput primitive's not a mole.

Your own description of her, sir, on the Runners-Up to the Top 10 DUmmies of 2008 is a classic, superbly wonderful.

I've watched the kaput primitive for some years now, after you suggested I do so, and she has a tendency to post stories that get the primitives' hopes all up and agog and excited.....but then what's supposed to happen, or hoped to happen, never happens.

I wonder if the primitives have ever noticed that; that the kaput primitive's stories, after raising so many expectations, never come to fruition.

It's like the kaput primitive really wants to let the primitives down, on purpose.

I think it's a great technique for a mole.

[BannedFromDU]

That's why I always kind of halfway sort of wondered if the kaput primitive's not a mole.

Your own description of her, sir, on the Runners-Up to the Top 10 DUmmies of 2008 is a classic, superbly wonderful.

I've watched the kaput primitive for some years now, after you suggested I do so, and she has a tendency to post stories that get the primitives' hopes all up and agog and excited.....but then what's supposed to happen, or hoped to happen, never happens.

I wonder if the primitives have ever noticed that; that the kaput primitive's stories, after raising so many expectations, never come to fruition.

It's like the kaput primitive really wants to let the primitives down, on purpose.

I think it's a great technique for a mole.

     I don't think she's a mole. FWIW, her information is readily accessible through her journal at DU, so I will say what I know about her: she is. or has been, very active in art education for kids in the two elementary schools very close to where she lives. She lives in the same area that many of the pro athletes in San Diego prefer, and like them, she lives in an enormous house in a gated subdivision (lest anyone think I've stalked her: I don't even need Google Maps. I can walk to the gate). The two elementary schools are a little over a mile apart and, while public, they educate the kids of some EXTREMELY wealthy people. These two schools each have fundraisers in the form of casino nights and blind auctions that raise tens of thousands of dollars for those two schools ONLY. The money goes for all sorts of extras that the district can't afford. About five miles south are the poorer neighborhoods, and while their schools are in the same district, they don't have millionaires writing five-figure checks for parking spaces on the campus of an elementary school. I don't know if or what kpete is doing for any part of the district now.

     I know all of the above to be actual facts. It doesn't have a LOT to do with kpete, other than the fact that much of her surroundings and the goings-on within them would cause your average DUmmy's head to explode in anger.

[franksolich]

I know all of the above to be actual facts. It doesn't have a LOT to do with kpete, other than the fact that much of her surroundings and the goings-on within them would cause your average DUmmy's head to explode in anger.

Actually, it has a great deal to do with the kaput primitive.

Here, we have all these primitives, utterly poor, struggling to get by, hardly a thing to their names.

Here, we have all these primitives, wanting to guillotine the "rich."

There's plenty of them apples right there on Skins's island, ranging from the Bostonian Drunkard to richboy playboy Pedro to the kaput primitive to the Leona Helmsley of DUmmieland the "flyarm" primitive to &c., &c., &c.

The primitives don't even have to go off their island, to snatch them.

[whiffleball]

Almost all of the sites that kpete uses as references make Alex Jones and Wayne Madsen seem sane.  And those are two of the "major" nutjob sites that cannot be linked to at DU.

S/he seems to know precisely which sites never to link directly to.  The list is long and not available to the membership at large.