Friday, May 29, 2009

Torturing Democracy


Excerpt #1 from the award-winning 2008 documentary Torturing Democracy

In all the recent debate over torture, many of our Beltway pundits and politicians have twisted themselves into verbal contortions to avoid using the word at all. During his speech to the conservative American Enterprise Institute last week -- immediately on the heels of President Obama's address at the National Archives -- former Vice President Dick Cheney used the euphemism "enhanced interrogation" a full dozen times. Smothering the reality of torture in euphemism of course has a political value, enabling its defenders to diminish the horror and possible illegality. It also gives partisans the opening they need to divert our attention by turning the future of the prison at Guantanamo Bay into a "wedge issue," as noted on the front page of Sunday's New York Times.

Bill Moyers and Michael Winsip - Everyone Should See 'Torturing Democracy.

Read full article here.

Read another on the problems the documentary has faced in getting aired here.

See more excerpts from the documentary below...







More on full documentary here.

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