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Title: Zero Dark Thirty: new torture-glorifying film wins raves
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guardian.co.uk, Monday 10 December 2012 08.40 EST
URL Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentis ... ero-dark-thirty-torture-awards
Published: Dec 14, 2012
Author: Glenn Greenwald
Post Date: 2012-12-14 08:25:10 by Ada
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Views: 330
Comments: 6
Can a movie that relies on fabrications to generate support for war crimes still be considered great? Earlier this year, the film "Zero Dark Thirty", which purports to dramatize the hunt for and killing of Osama bin Laden, generated substantial political controversy. It was discovered that CIA and White House officials had met with its filmmakers and passed non-public information to them - at exactly the same time that DOJ officials were in federal court resisting transparency requests from media outlets and activist groups on the ground that it was all classified. With its release imminent, the film is now garnering a pile of top awards and virtually uniform rave reviews. What makes this so remarkable is that, by most accounts, the film glorifies torture by claiming - falsely - that waterboarding and other forms of coercive interrogation tactics were crucial, even indispensable in finding bin Laden.
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#1. To: Ada (#0)
What a load of crap! Pure, unadulterated bull$#it! How could they "find" a man who had been dead a decade before they started yammering about killing him? Osama Bin Laden Has Been Dead For Years Osama bin Laden: A dead nemesis perpetuated by the US government Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. Lord Acton The human herd stampedes on the fields of facts and the valleys of truth to get to the desert of ignorance. Saman Mohammadi "If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner." Mencken "..if the military is going to defend our freedoms, then we need freedoms to defend. Our freedoms must be restored before the military can defend them..." Lawrence M. Vance Você me trata desse jeito só porque eu sou preto. Junior (my youngest son)
They put Max Headroom on the case. What could be better - a fictional character pursuing a dead target. The funny thing is that they didn't even have a good script for this bollocks. AND a new report was just released which points out that torture doesn't work. It's a sorry old world, ain't it? Even little kids know that anyone will tell you whatever it is they think you want to hear if you are torturing them and that you will stop if they just tell you some bs. It is a rare man or woman who can endure a substantial amount of torture without spilling his or her guts even if they really don't know anything.
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. Lord Acton The human herd stampedes on the fields of facts and the valleys of truth to get to the desert of ignorance. Saman Mohammadi "If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner." Mencken "..if the military is going to defend our freedoms, then we need freedoms to defend. Our freedoms must be restored before the military can defend them..." Lawrence M. Vance Você me trata desse jeito só porque eu sou preto. Junior (my youngest son)
Balderdash!!!!!!!111 Obama used his community organizing skills and superior intellect to mystically divine the compound that was hiding the dastardly Osama Bin Laden!!! Your attitude has been noticed, comrade...... ;-) What makes this so remarkable is that, by most accounts, the film glorifies torture by claiming - falsely - that waterboarding and other forms of coercive interrogation tactics were crucial, even indispensable in finding bin Laden.
#2. To: James Deffenbach (#1)
How could they "find" a man who had been dead a decade before they started yammering about killing him?
#3. To: Original_Intent (#2)
#4. To: James Deffenbach (#1)
-Alex Kurtagic
#5. To: Ada (#0)
I did hear The Brothers Grimm had a new story out. the hunt for and killing of Osama bin Laden
#6. To: X-15 (#4)
Perhaps after I am "re-educated" I vill be a better sssssitizen! Balderdash!!!!!!!111 Obama used his community organizing skills and superior intellect to mystically divine the compound that was hiding the dastardly Osama Bin Laden!!! Your attitude has been noticed, comrade......
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. Lord Acton
The human herd stampedes on the fields of facts and the valleys of truth to get to the desert of ignorance. Saman Mohammadi
"If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner." Mencken
"..if the military is going to defend our freedoms, then we need freedoms to defend. Our freedoms must be restored before the military can defend them..." Lawrence M. Vance
Você me trata desse jeito só porque eu sou preto. Junior (my youngest son)
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