By now, everyone in America is familiar with the ideas of and the execution of torture. Abu Ghraib and now Guantanamo have both made the practice of torture by the hands of Americans pretty obvious, unless of course, you ask President Barack Obama. According to POTUS "We do not torture" seems to deny the reality of its practice by people that claim to be charged with our national security as a reason for its practice. And by denying our involvement with torture, regardless of rationale, are we not inviting an increase in such barbaric behaviors and exactly why are we any better than any other nation that closes its eyes to the wrongs that they have perpetrated? American "Exceptionalism" is not going to buy us a pass from the terrorists or other nations.
Okay? The president, at least out loud and to the public, does not endorse torture. It appears that one of his Chicago peers, Rahm Emanuel, mayor, denies the existence of a black ops site where Chicago Police torture people in a warehouse called Homan Square. Homan Square is a facility where every day poor, brown and black Chicagoans can disappear for days. There are no arrest records. No attorneys can speak with the individual and some have been placed in, what has been described as, metal dog cages, placed in painful stress positions for hours as well as suffer physical abuse by police officers. The existence of the warehouse, as a secret police facility, has been denied by police brass and the mayor. And yet there are individuals and their attorneys who can attest to its existence.
In my twisted way of viewing reality, it's kind of amazing to me that long-time Chicago residents, especially Barack Obama and Rahm Emanuel, could be completely unaware of Chicago's long-standing affiliation with police brutality and torture of citizens.