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The Sentence I Can't Get Out Of My Mind

By The Daily Dish
Apr 21 2009, 3:49 AM ET

It is a Bush administration official on the moment when torture breaks a victim:

The job of the interrogator is to safely help the terrorist do his duty to Allah, so he then feels liberated to speak freely.

From Neil Gaiman's account of a torturer in hell:

"We will hurt you. And we are not sorry. But we do not do it to punish you. We do it to redeem you. Because afterward, you'll be a better person ... and because we love you. One day you'll thank us for it."

War is peace. Torture is freedom. In the end, you love Big Brother.



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