I just walked away from a political fight in my on-line class, because the classroom is neither the time, nor the place, for such a discussion.

But it was really difficult. The … people … in question were trying to justify torture as acceptable. And of course the polemics were written with lots of capital letters and in one giant paragraph as they sat down at the keyboard and vomited out their diatribe. Of how “torture is justified” and that “Muslims deserve it” and some other vile nastiness, never mind that the Constitution provides for “innocent until proven guilty.” Nope. According to these Neanderthals if we think we’re under threat then we have the right to go in with guns blazing taking out the innocent and the guilty alike. Guess Civil Rights are only important if you’re a Republican.

It made me feel dirty even reading it.

People like that not only make no sense, they make me feel physically ill.