Guantanamo Prisoner Diary: “We're Gonna Teach You About Great American Sex”

This is the textbook way to empower yourself using a moral panic.

It worked in the Salem witch trials, where vast satanic conspiracies were uncovered as individuals were forced to implicate others. It worked in the McCarthy hearings of the 1950s, which uncovered a vast communist infiltration through society. Each time, the victims admit their guilt, and our savior and protector gets to show just how crucial their actions were, and how the ends clearly justified the means.

Because the intersection of justice, law and government have obviously proven to be so fruitful. Right?

At least they aren't running these military operations out of Germany, oh wait.

If you want governments to talk openly about the mistakes they make shaming them won't help you much.

Become when? I don't mean to sound crass, but the US has been owned by private interests for a very long time. It has done despicable things for a very long time. There has never been some golden age of American freedom and enlightenment. To assume so is the greatest problem for America today - there is some strange belief that there used to be these "good old days" that never really happened. We have been assholes since the early 1800s and we've been the top shit dog on campus since the 1940s.

I don't really know if there's such a great difference between what we did to the Native Americans or Africans or Latin Americans. The only difference between then in now is force projection and the lack of pretense.