Torture And Sociology

'Progressives', 'Leftists', extreme right wingers to you and me, who support a police state, restrictions to jury trials, secret courts that can deprive you of your children and your liberty, the abolition of double jeopardy, the abolition of Habaes Corpus, the government adjusting the income of those deemed worthy (tax credits),the introduction of Armed Forces Day, the militarization of Remembrance Sunday, restrictions on the press, endless overseas warfare, monitoring of private correspondence, and so on ad infinitum, always claim a moral superiority as they pick up their rather large pay cheques, and draw on their pensions that the poor have to sweat to pay for.
Oh yes, they are the righteous ones. They might send you to jail if you say the wrong things, but that is because you are bad and they are good.
And war, yes war. Well they don't like the Jews, sorry, I mean Israel.
And as for their wars, you know, like bombing Yugoslavia, sanctions on Iraq ( five hundred thousand children was a price worth paying, you know) and the invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan, the murder of thousands of Libyans through terrorist bombing, well you know, it's not really something they agree with - and they'll quickly turn the conversation back to the Jews, sorry, the Israelis, or if you're really lucky, about our mission to spread homosexuality throughout the poorer, less civilised races, I mean countries.
And torture - well they don't agree with it. But it was their government, the New Labour Party that was complicit in or participated in torture. They cannot surely be the same people who have brought us sweetness and light and Progress?
They are? Progressives are torturers! The same people who love foxes and badgers and abortion? Blimey, Adolf liked animals too - he just wasn't too good with people. And Uncle Joe? That was just an error. He went off script.
When you replace religion with social science, the love of God with social security, the sanctity of the individual human life with Human Resources, theology with psychology, torture will follow as surely as night follows day.