Trevor Blake: My Tax Dollars At Work
Wired Magazine reports: “As an expert witness in the defense of an Abu Ghraib guard who was court-martialed, psychologist Philip Zimbardo had access to many of the images of abuse that were taken by the guards themselves. For a presentation at the TED conference in Monterey, California, Zimbardo assembled some of these pictures into a short video. Wired.com obtained the video from Zimbardo’s talk, and is publishing some of the stills from that video here. Many of the images are explicit and gruesome, depicting nudity, degradation, simulated sex acts and guards posing with decaying corpses. Viewer discretion is advised.”
Recently I paid my taxes. This is part of what I got in exchange, I guess.
Access to information does not, in itself, change things. The truth is not un-ignorable. The Bible has been full of contradictions and absurdities for thousands of years, easily seen by anyone who looks, but Christianity lingers on. The bald fact that the Bush administration is tyrannical, illegal and fascist is easily seen by anyone who looks. But it lingers on. What might change things?
