Left: Max Hardcore (aka Paul Little), right: Abu Ghraib (aka enhanced interrogation). If you think what these images represent is equivalent in any way, there is a failure in your brain. Go back to the beginning, and learn how to properly reason. Little was convicted on Friday of obscenity, and faces four years in prison. Bush and his top advisors were re-elected in 2004, and we were sentenced to four years by the (just over) 50% of Americans who cannot properly reason. Glenn Greenwald: “So, to recap, in the Land of the Free: if you’re an adult who produces a film using other consenting adults, for the entertainment of still other consenting adults, which merely depicts fictional acts of humiliation and degradation, the DOJ will prosecute you and send you to prison for years. The claim that no real pain was inflicted will be rejected; mere humiliation is enough to make you a criminal. But if government officials actually subject helpless detainees in their custody to extreme mental abuse, degradation, humiliation and even mock executions long considered “torture” in the entire civilized world, the DOJ will argue that they have acted with perfect legality and, just to be sure, Congress will hand them retroactive immunity for their conduct. That’s how we prioritize criminality and arrange our value system.”

Left: Max Hardcore (aka Paul Little), right: Abu Ghraib (aka enhanced interrogation). If you think what these images represent is equivalent in any way, there is a failure in your brain. Go back to the beginning, and learn how to properly reason. Little was convicted on Friday of obscenity, and faces four years in prison. Bush and his top advisors were re-elected in 2004, and we were sentenced to four years by the (just over) 50% of Americans who cannot properly reason.

Glenn Greenwald:

“So, to recap, in the Land of the Free: if you’re an adult who produces a film using other consenting adults, for the entertainment of still other consenting adults, which merely depicts fictional acts of humiliation and degradation, the DOJ will prosecute you and send you to prison for years. The claim that no real pain was inflicted will be rejected; mere humiliation is enough to make you a criminal. But if government officials actually subject helpless detainees in their custody to extreme mental abuse, degradation, humiliation and even mock executions long considered “torture” in the entire civilized world, the DOJ will argue that they have acted with perfect legality and, just to be sure, Congress will hand them retroactive immunity for their conduct. That’s how we prioritize criminality and arrange our value system.”