Comments on: Prairie Home Torture Companion

by: Robert Palmer

Sat, 23 May 2009 19:34:36 +0000

I have grown to appreciate Garrison Keillor’s creative storytelling even as I sometimes heard him say things that seemed too establishment for my comfort. Now I am saddened to hear his stance on torture. Torture was taught in my school as a horrible archaic practice prevalent in Europe during the middle ages and in our own country in early New England and among Southern slavers, but something that we had progressed as a culture above following WWII and the civil rights movement of the sixties. That we would allow high officials to get away with torture today means that our great experiment in living by the law has failed. We need to hold every person who did not resist, who pushed for torture, or participated in torture accountable for their actions including the Office of Legal Council lawyers, Bush, Cheney, George Tenet, and Condi Rice and many more. I believe in our Constitution and we need to affirm it by holding those in high office accountable when they violate it. And those who actually tortured others also crossed the line. They should have known we all have a responsiblity to refuse an illegal order. Shame on Garrison Keillor.

by: janice golden

Fri, 22 May 2009 22:03:00 +0000

i just wrote a longer comment on alternet and decided to check out the comments here.

how i remember garrison keillor, and i didn’t come to enjoy him until years after i ignored him thinking he was corny, is that he is very funny and witty and imaginative, and i wouldn’t have guessed he was right wing. no, the opposite.

in any case, i thought his article might be satire.

does anyone else think so?

by: Brooklynbridge

Fri, 22 May 2009 06:18:43 +0000

I take the Minnesota Mayberry at his word.

Let’s forget about the past. Let’s just look forward. Let bygones be bygones and immediately release ALL of the Guantanamo prisoners. Prosecuting would be revengeful. After all, all that stuff is over. Think of the school textbooks that could be bought for those above average boys and girls with the money we save from giving out free Alkorans.

Don’t stop there, immediately withdraw from Afghanistan and build a Minneapolis Maglev with the proceeds from the drones. After all, 911 is so in the past.

by: Ojos Criollos

Fri, 22 May 2009 03:16:21 +0000

Thank you, Rory O’Connor for exposing Keillor. All the celebs who are serving as apologists for torturers should be exposed, and even prosecuted, just as propagandists were tried for war crimes in the Nuremberg Tribunals. Besides the Fox “News” propagandists, the ever-expanding list includes Elisabeth Hasselbeck Bill Maher, and everyone else who treats torture as an option to be discussed rather than illegal actions that must be prosecuted. Does Mr. Keillor think that prosecuting murderers is revengeful? Torture that results in death is a capital crime. The man is an oversized dimwit. Has his brain not thawed out yet?

by: Jean Braun

Thu, 21 May 2009 18:42:52 +0000

So? Can’t this government walk and chew gum at the same time?