Phony, perverted 'compassion'

You really have to wonder about people who, on the one hand, are morally outraged at the idea of coercive interrogations of enemy combatants to save the lives of innocent people and who, on the other hand, have no problem with plunging scissors into the brains of unborn babies.

That's what I'm thinking about today as the misplaced indignation continues about coercive interrogations – deceptively labeled as "torture."

Let's begin with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. She told that guardian of liberty and justice, Rolling Stone magazine: "Even if you want to forget about a sense of decency and just say in terms of reciprocity: We don't want this to happen to our people so we're not doing it to anybody else. Separate and apart from the fact that there are international standards for this, and we have a Constitution that we want to honor. And on top of this, and this is the most important part, in terms of having justice be done for 9/11. It's five years later – they have no convictions. They won't have any convictions that will be upheld by the Supreme Court unless they follow certain principles. And so not one person directly responsible for 9/11 has been convicted and/or punished. Because they have this sense that they can operate outside the law outside of any regime or convention that relates to human dignity."

Human dignity?

I wonder when Pelosi's concern for human dignity begins?

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Does it begin after you are born?

Or does it begin after you wage war on the United States?

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Let's look at Pelosi's concern for human dignity when the target is an unborn child. She doesn't merely excuse it, she encourages it with taxpayer funding and insists there can be no legal restrictions on abortion up to and including the moment before birth.

How about Barack Obama?

He has concluded that it's "torture" to splash water on the faces of enemy combatants believed to have knowledge of impending lethal attacks – a coercive interrogation technique known as "waterboarding" that leaves no scars, no lasting physical damage while conducted under the supervision of physicians.

Meanwhile, as a state legislator in Illinois, Obama spearheaded an effort to require that babies who defied the odds and survived abortions be deprived of nourishment and medical attention until they died of neglect.

What can you say about people like this whose moral compass is so askew?

What you should say is that you don't want them making life and death choices for the country.

It is as if they live in a parallel moral universe where up is down, left is right, black is white and right is wrong.

Imagine the world they are shaping right now with policies like these:

• They are encouraging future terrorist attacks on the U.S. – perhaps some that will rival 9/11 – by joining with our most reprobate enemies in condemning past U.S. defensive policies.
• They are preventing the military and intelligence agencies from using the most valuable tool in their arsenal when it comes to preventing terrorist attacks.
• They are condemning honest efforts to defend the U.S. – efforts that even they admit had success.
• They mislabel humane but harsh interrogation techniques as "torture," while characterizing the real torture and murder of the most innocent lives as "humane."

I know these people are in power. I know they have pushed the right buttons to be elected. I know there is precious little we can do to change that immediately.

However, it is important that we begin to learn the stark and bloody truth about their perverted and evil worldview.

Don't let these people hide behind their phony, perverted masquerade of "compassion."

This is not compassion. This is corruption.