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Sir;...You are a liar...Tell the truth, that Detroit was suffering long before the seventies, that jobs were allowed and encouraged to leave people stranded on a large island of poverty...I knew a man who was there in the riots... Flush days those... Anyone with food in the freezer had to eat it, and every meat market within reach was demeated... And then something happened... Before the riots, heroin was hard to find; and after, there was heroin on every corner... Then came crack, and aids, and prostitutes so thin a rain storm wouldn't get them wet....I appreciate the desire to blame the victims and to blame those who want to bring some sense to the business of law...Maybe it is good to torture a confession out of some criminal, and maybe it is bad for business...Maybe people threatened with torture would make a stand rather than surrender...Maybe they would take out a cop rather than submit...Maybe we would all get the correct idea that we cannot trust the government, and that would put everyone on edge...I am not saying that what we have here is a failure to communicate...But truely stupid reactionaries do a lot of damage to this country when they torture... They dishonor us, and make it all the more certain that people will fight to the death, have no trust in us, and desire only to spend their lives dearly taking our lives... A prisoner exists on the honor of his captors... We see how the Greek slaughters in the peloponession war shocked even those people in that cruel age, and the slaughters of prisoners during WWII were clearly war crimes... Can we say torture is better???I think it is worse... To take a life is a small crime, and I say that because everyone dies; but to make anyone wish for death when life is all we will ever have is the worst crime in the world... I do not think the people of Detroit who wish for death out of the hopelessness of their common existence are evil...I think they should be pitied...And dito for Mr. Cheney... Why not advocate for slavery since it is torture for labor... Why not advocate for white slavery as it is torture for sex....Does it matter what excuse people give us for their torture??? I think it is not possible for a man like Mr. Cheney to believe in God, or in heaven or hell... What he does cannot be justified in the eyes of God...What he does is for his life in this world, and how he may conceive of his reputation... Why not ask Jesus -what is truth???All these torturers want to know something...The only question they need to ask is: where is humanity???Thanks...Sweeney