Last night's movie at MCC

Last night the MCC Student Peace Action Network showed a documentary titled Taxi to the Dark Side. It was about the U.S.-sanctioned torture of prisoners in Afghanistan and at Guantanamo.

An Afghan, Dilawar, was scooped up and imprisoned. Five days later he was dead. The cause was initially listed as a natural death; later, it was changed.

Deaths of several detainees have been classified as Homicide. Now, we all know what Homicide is. Murder.

The movie is about a subject of something that is not happening right in front of our eyes. And so the general population tends, in this day of instant news and "old news" that quickly moves off the front pages of the papers, to blow on past it and not raise the cry of outrage that deserves to be aimed at our government.

The general consensus is that torture (hello - waterboarding? extreme beatings? electrical prodding?) doesn't work. Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld. Good that they are gone from office. But we'd better keep an eye on them and on their followers.

Like the sign on that defunct auto dealership: "Gone but not forgotten." May we never forget the harm that they have done!