GORDON DUFF: BEING HONEST ABOUT TORTURE

TIME FOR SOME STRAIGHT TALK ABOUT TORTURE

THIS IS NOT FOR PUBLIC CONSUMPTION

By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER

I feel like an idiot, writing to thousands of people when I am talking about something that, perhaps, I should keep my mouth shut about.  I just finished watching Burn Notice, so this is a good time for us to talk shop about the spy business.

We have always tortured people.  We have always killed people.  What kind of country do you think we are?  We deal with horribly bad people sometimes, people so bad you would never want to know who they are, people so bad they could never go on trial.  They get tortured and fed to the alligators or crocodiles, I forget which, the ones with the pointy noses, or is it the other ones.  This is too confusing.

When we had to “interview” people, we could do it secretly and they knew we tortured and killed people SECRETLY.  People would be glad to tell us what they knew to avoid being tortured horribly and being murdered.  Hell, people would even spill their guts just for the privilege of being murdered in a neat and orderly fashion.

We used to have trained professionals who went after evil people, not innocent citizens or security forces of other countries.  They and their families were immune.  We lived in a world of order, of consequences, of rules.

Then came the idiots of the Bush amateur hour.

When we started our idiotic “War on Terror,” we started announcing to the world that we have the moral duty to torture people.  We turned it over to amateurs who filmed it, put it on the internet and then our childish yellow bellied politicians, you know the ones, bragged about it on TV.

Then, so those morons could feel safe about violating every international convention known to man,  had their equally moronic lawyers say it was all legal.  In reality, they simply admitted to the world that they, themselves, were, not only total fools, but criminals, amateur criminals, incompetent criminals, to boot.

Now we have people, here, people around the world, that want to send Bush, Cheney, Gonzales and the rest of those small time “pretend” tough guys to jail for the criminal acts they admitted to with while running their stupid politician mouths.  Idiots like this give brutality a bad name.

You simply can’t pick up innocent people at customs, fly them around the world, at subject them to unimaginable abuses and then let them go.  There was a reason that we had secrets.  We were bad to bad guys and left good people alone.  When we wanted to find out who bad guys were, we spied on them SECRETLY.

Now we spy on everyone publicly, violate laws, admit to it, and may not ever be able to protect ourselves again.  Spying may be the only industry in the US with job security.

Once, before there was DHS, the Department of Homeland Security and outfits like the NSA and CIA began hiring fools and children, that we had tough and experienced people who spent their lives keeping America safe, or relatively so, and keeping us credible.

Now that our “security” is handled by boy scouts and girl scouts who think torture is having sex in front of prisoners and putting it all on the internet, anyone “real” that is still around will be too embarrassed to admit that they are someone they really shouldn’t be admitting to be, if you get my meaning.

We are giving spies a bad name.

Gordon Duff is a Marine Vietnam veteran and regular contributor on political and social issues.

Gordon Duff

Gordon Duff posted articles on VT from 2008 to 2022. He is a Marine combat veteran of the Vietnam War. A disabled veteran, he worked on veterans and POW issues for decades.

Gordon is an accredited diplomat and is generally accepted as one of the top global intelligence specialists. He manages the world’s largest private intelligence organization and regularly consults with governments challenged by security issues.

Duff has traveled extensively, is published around the world, and is a regular guest on TV and radio in more than “several” countries. He is also a trained chef, wine enthusiast, avid motorcyclist, and gunsmith specializing in historical weapons and restoration. Business experience and interests are in energy and defense technology.

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