I happened to have watched V for Vendetta this weekend. I'm sure that this is going to be the most controversial movie of the season with its anti-Bush, anti-corporation messages, and the way that they have unabashedly (and perhaps a bit irresponsibly) twisted the words terrorist and revolutionary together. There are not the same. Regardless, V will have you thinking about its world long after you leave the theater--it's one of the best movies of this year so far.
In the film there are several depictions of torture used by the government against its own citizens who are accused of sedition--sounds familiar? Yet everything about it seems so oddly...everyday that it was particularly, some pun intended, terrifying. When I watched it I couldn't help but think, "this is real...this is what actually goes on in our installations, in our prisons, with our mandate. This is sick."
It's made even sicker when I come across this little pic (http://securingamerica.com/geneva.htm) titled "The Enemy in your Hands." It's a copy of a pamphlet that was given out to American troops during the Vietnam War showing them how to treat POWs, and at the bottom it reads, "Always treat your prisoner humanely."
Maybe if Bush, or Cheney, or Rumsfeld had gone to Vietnam they might have learned something.
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