To more fully enjoy this story in living, breathing HTML, please visit our website at: /~vivian Now offering over 140,000 words of pure prurience! -------------------------------------------------------- White House Advocates S&M by Vivian Darkbloom UPDATE While we were pleased to note that the President has finally, reluctantly, agreed not to veto a bill preventing cruel treatment of detainees, it would have been more encouraging were it impelled by a genuine sense of morality rather than by embarrassing questions and pressure from congress and the international community. Noting further that the vice president has so far been silent, thus failing to refute his idiotic assertion that torture is somehow justified in certain situations, the title of this piece stands. It was furthermore disturbing to note that a recent poll indicated that 60% of the American public cannot tell right from wrong. That is, 60% of the population polled believes that torture is acceptable in certain situations. The belief that one might get more information by causing another human being to suffer is a sick and twisted line of reasoning that flies in the face of logic, history, and the testimony of modern experts. It can hardly be a coincidence a similar percentage of the population embraces the backwards and brutal religious dogma which fueled the recent fascination with torture as demonstrated by the disgustingly high box-office sales for "The Passion of the Christ." Hypocritical contradictions such as "pro-life" politicians who love to sign execution warrants (e.g. the President) are easily explained by the failure of critical analysis which starts with the goofball belief that a Loving God would sentence someone to everlasting punishment based on the actions of a finite lifespan. The outcome is a lurid compulsive fascination with suffering that, for many, has become an uncontrollable addiction. ____________________________________________________________ Talk about kinky. If there's one squick Auntie Viv holds sacred, it's the aversion to cruelty. And if Bush weren't lying when he said "we do not torture," he wouldn't have struggled so hard to veto legislation banning it. Listening to the swaggering vapidity of Bush's rhetoric is a form of punishment in itself! A useful tool when being submitted to such agony is Auntie Viv's truth transformer: the truth may be discovered by applying logical inversion to whatever the president says. Just put a "not" in front and you'll get the truth. The truth is that the president and his gang of thugs have lowered the level of Republican sliminess to new depths. The driving force behind Republican "ideology" is greed, we knew that. Republicans are greedy thieves, we knew that. What's unprecedented is the sheer magnitude of blatant cruelty. Never before, have such a genuinely mean-spirited downright nasty bunch of truly evil vermin had such a grip on power in this country. Apply Auntie Viv's truth transformer to Bush's claim that he's Christian. "Not!" Christ taught life and love. The president has consistently displayed a positive fetish for execution, war, and torture. Oh, but he'll bend over backwards in a pointless charade to save a "life" when the quality of living has long since fled away. Never before have we seen such blatant disrespect for human rights and dignity, nor such an egregious erosion of the positive values associated with the adjective "American." Apply Auntie Viv's truth-transformer to the Republican's labeling of liberals as "enemies of the American way." "Not!" Once again, the Republicans cloud the issue by accusing their opponents of what they are themselves guilty of. This "State of war" privilege is one of the most cynical lies yet. The pre-emptive "War" is just an Orwellian hoax to distract from the sheer fraudulent plundering, smoke and mirrors to conceal the rich as they steal from the poor in ever-growing proportions. The terrible and senseless war that has cost so many lives, that has stretched the resources of our nation so thin that disadvantaged (i.e. exploited) people of non-white ethnicity are left stranded in the event of emergency; this senseless war was motivated solely by the lust for power, because pit-bull Rove knew even a lazy mediocre imbecile like "W" could get re-elected so long as there was a "war" going on. What a nasty scam. The evidence is overwhelming. The White House vermin are just plain mean. So it's no shock to see them advocate torture (again) and lie about it (again). Bush and Dick are way more obscene than anything you'll find in Auntie Viv's tales of love and happiness. The creeps in the White House want just the opposite: terror and suffering. That little voice of sanity has been saying "Not!" all long. Time to start listening! _______________________________________________________ For more stories, please visit our site: /~vivian