Brownshirtin' it.

That Adam Yoshida. The lonely Canadian fascist. He says we shouldn't give a "f*ck" about "terrorists" we torture. (Although there's no evidence that, for instance, anyone abused at Abu Ghraib was a "terrorist." He actually argues that there haven't been enough people abused or tortured. No, really. He does.

People are such babies nowadays. A hundred years ago people caught fighting out of uniform in the fashion that the terrorists do would have been executed virtually on the spot. The left is always prattling on about how the Earth’s resources are limited. You’d think they’d see the summary execution of captured terrorists as a good way of preserving our natural resources.

This guy belongs in Bellevue. As for the story that some Gitmo prisoners were flown to Egypt, so we could out-source our torture? He asks:

1) Why are we outsourcing our torture, thus depriving hard-working American pain technicians of much needed work?

Here's the thing: before you dismiss Yoshida as a far-rightist crank - an aberration, just surf on over to the good folks at Lucianne.com. They want a return to HUAC, so that "traitorous" Democrats who dare to question or oppose administration policies can be dealt with. This is the Limbaugh listenership - a pretty big number of people, IIRC. The Freepers - also Limbaugh/Savage/Hannity listeners also are pro-torture. As a former republican, I wasn't fooled by the GOP convention dog & pony show of "moderates" like Giuliani, Arnold, etc. The party is run by people like Tom Delay - an evil emeffer. It caters to dittoheads who think the thinks shown above. I know that there are whackjobs on the left, too, and that many of them are straight Dems, rather than RCYB members. But you know what? Right now, I'm more able to tolerate people who want the workers to own the means of production, than I am able to tolerate freepers and Lucianne posters.