In connection with the appalling revelations of CIA torture, Jane Bowron
(Street sinning, karma and why the US can't handle the truth, December
15) admits we’ve become ‘so used to letting the bad go by and no one owning it
or saying it even exists’.
Yes. Think outrageous pay packets for public
servants, think video beheadings, think dirty dairying, hungry children, axe
murderers. Think old people in retirement homes, put away beyond the pale of
ordinary society.
This is why the affable man, John Key, stays top of the pops. While he’s
still up there spinning and grinning, New Zealand can pretend everything in the
garden’s rosy. We can moralise about the US and its barbaric torture practices
but at least they’ve at last admitted it. Our self-delusion will come to an end
only when we admit our own barbaric torture. Think abortion.
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