How do you feel about torture today?

I don't know about you but after reading the op-ed piece by Kean and Hamilton in today's New York Times, I felt sick all over again about the ways in which this country has been run over the past 7 years. (I am not giving any other previous administrations a glance right now because there isn't enough time.) After I finished reading their outraged comments I again found the stomach ache that will not go away had intensified. A sure sign of my own outrage and disgust with a government that has no sense of decency or legalities and a way to see why we must not falter now when it comes to reversing the horrible trends set by them.
A friend of mine is a friend of George Tenent, the former head of the CIA. She has been in the past pretty certain that her friend would not do what people say he has done--condone the use of torture, etc. I hope she can truly know this man and know that he would not have gone along with this regime's ideas but I have to confess, I don't buy any of it. They are all guilty whether by actually authorizing it or not stepping in to stop it.
Yet, we are too in our own ways guilty of sitting idly by and not getting this administration out of office as soon as we knew what was going on. I know lots of people are getting thoroughly disgusted with the way things are shaping up politically right now. They watch the broadcast news which has already been way too vocal about who is ahead and who should win. They listen to these same guys who over and over have lied to them about many things of importance and believe them. I know there are those we can argue with about this fact and those who just don't care, but this is directed to those of you who care.
Now is not the time to give up or give in. Now is the time to redouble every last bit of that energy that was there for real change in the way things are going here. I should add that if you read the foreign press at all you will see that this country is not the only one plagued with rising debt, rising abuses of power and rising costs of living for the middle and lower classes and more and more protections for the wealthy. It ought to awaken more of us to the fact that this kind of greedy need for power is an epidemic and needs to be stopped.
Unfortunately, there are human beings in places like Guantanamo and other sites we don't know about who are facing a daily regimine of inhumane treatment, along with the 2 million or so felons in this country, and we need to find a way to put an end to this kind of warfare against humanity. It threatens us as well. My stomach is testimony to that.
If you can make it to the news sites on the web, begin to campaign for the one candidate that can and will make this change--Dennis Kuinich--and don't give up until the votes, all the votes are counted in November.
Every one of us means something to the world and right now we are also the voices of change and a better world.
Strength through Peace is more than a slogan, it is a way of life.