As we noted the other day, recent polls show that a majority of Americans are o.k. with the CIA's torture methods, erroneously believing those methods have resulted in important information being obtained. To those of us who still believe that's not who we are as a nation, the polls came as a reminder that there's a very large pool of low-information, frightened people out there whose "lizard brain" responds to any threat or fear stimulus =cough= Fox "News" =cough=. They've also been conditioned by t.v. and film portrayals to believe "this stuff works," and that the ends justify the means. In fact, it only rots you from inside out.
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(Tom Toles,
