Patrick Madrid Unfortunately Proven Perceptive

Perhaps you thought one of last week's Blogworthies might have been a bit too extreme:

.... Early this morning, I logged onto the Internet news sites and saw the latest round of images of U.S. troops leering and mugging for the camera as they forced Iraqi men to stand naked and hooded, made them sprawl across one another on the floor in groups, simulating homosexual acts, humiliated them in for the cameras in other sexual ways, dragging a naked Iraqi man on the floor, a dog leash around his neck, and other atrocities.

It occurred to me that the reason this is happening, and the reason our country may be shocked by shouldn't be in the least surprised that this is happening, is the following: The pornography chickens are coming home to roost. Or to say it the way the Bible does, the American, indeed Western, fascination and enslavement to pornography has sown the wind and now we’re reaping the whirlwind (cf. Hosea 8:7)....

Patrick has, however, been vindicated:

Shocking shots of sexcapades involving Pfc. Lynndie England were among the hundreds of X-rated photos and videos from the Abu Ghraib prison scandal shown to lawmakers in a top-secret Capitol conference room yesterday.

"She was having sex with numerous partners. It appeared to be consensual," said a lawmaker who saw the photos.

And, videos showed the disgraced soldier — made notorious in a photo showing her holding a leash looped around an Iraqi prisoner's neck — engaged in graphic sex acts with other soldiers in front of Iraqi prisoners, Pentagon officials told NBC Nightly News.

"Almost everybody was naked all the time," another lawmaker said....

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Fri. 05/14/04 05:44:06 PM
Categorized as Social/Cultural.