The Command Post - Op-Ed - That Oughta Do It -- Cruel And Unusual Punishment For Saddam Sympathizers

May 18, 2003

That Oughta Do It -- Cruel And Unusual Punishment For Saddam Sympathizers

Psyop: The Love
I don't know if this violates the treaty making torture illegal, but it probably should. Forcing detainees to listen to Barney the purple dinosaur singing for hours on end is enough to drive anyone nuts. It wouldn't take more than a few minutes for me to crack under that pressure.

I remember reading a story a few years ago where a man, no doubt the father of a small child, beat the shit out of a Barney imitator at a Texas mall. I know how he feels and I don't even have children.

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Posted By Robert Prather (The Mind Of Man) at May 18, 2003 07:20 PM | TrackBack

Comments

This is covered on the Iraq Page as well. I still maintain the threat of an all Manilow session is what gets them yakking. Tape their eyes open and make them sit through 24/7 reruns of the Rosie O'Donnel show. Now that's gotta be outlawed by the Genva convention.

Posted by: Insta-Gator at May 18, 2003 11:37 PM

I looked at the Op-Ed page to see if it was here because I assumed they would play it straight on the Iraq page.

You're a sadistic dude with the Rosie O'Donnel and the A Clockwork Orange approach to torture.

Posted by: Robert Prather at May 18, 2003 11:54 PM

What, nobody thought of polka?

Posted by: gus3 at May 19, 2003 01:16 AM

Where the hell is amnesty international on this one? Oh, I forgot, their working diligently to prove our troops tortured and abused iraqi military scum. I would think they would be all over this.

Posted by: Theresa at May 19, 2003 04:24 AM

The worst for me would be Bobby Goldsburrough singing Daddy Don't You Walk So Fast.

I suspect that nobody mentioned it because it is just too awful.

Posted by: Master Goldsmith at May 19, 2003 10:49 AM

whoa, i shudder at the mere thought of Bobby Goldsburough. yeah, the clockwork orange thing is pretty rude, but we're talking about baathists, not real human beings.

Posted by: Insta-Gator at May 19, 2003 11:23 AM

IG: beware of completely stooping to their level. Yeah, psy-ops is one thing, but dehumanization is always step 1 of genocide and its related -cides.

Posted by: gus3 at May 19, 2003 05:46 PM

No, No, you've got the wrong Goldsboro song. It's gotta be "Honey".

Posted by: Susan at May 19, 2003 10:18 PM