Toons Gone Feral

Let me spell it out:  Torture is illegal.  It is forbidden by the Geneva Conventions.  According to the Constitution, treaties are, along with the Constitution, “the supreme law of the land.”  Waterboarding is torture.  This is not speculation, it is settled law.  Authorizing or comitting torture is a war crime.  Not a misdemeanor, some minor peccadilloe.  A war crime.  We hang people for war crimes.  In spite of their claim that they were only following orders.

So we have a crime, we know who the criminals are and, no doubt, they will be arrested, tried, convicted and punished any day now, right?

Well, no.  With the administration’s statement that these people will not be prosecuted, it is now the official policy of the United States that there are two kinds of administrations: torture administrations and non-torture administrations.  All you have to do is get elected, and you get to decide which kind we have.