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Interviewed on ABC, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said he supports waterboarding as a form of interrogation, because it’s “peanuts compared to what they’re doing to us.”

War – even a savage war of terror – is nothing new. Western societies have experienced it before – and have certainly inflicted no shortage of it on the people of the Middle East.

In times of crisis, Americans willingly abandon sacred constitutional protections, and basic rules of decency, in order to feel safe and secure. What they receive instead is a more powerful and dangerous government.

War is truly the health of the state.

In the 16th century Sir Thomas More is reported to have said, “I’d give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake!” Donald Trump, like Obama and W. before him, will gladly turn that principle on its head.

If we continue to support this inhuman practice, on what high ground will we stand when it is ourselves, or one of our loved ones, dragged before a Star Chamber and put upon the rack?

The Donald supports torture, and he’ll have a list of victims.