So,  there is now a site that tells the British public the likelihood of a terrorist attack on any given day.  

http://www.intelligence.gov.uk/threat_levels/index.asp

Brave New World, anyone? 

I just heard on the news that *some* americans don't believe that waterboarding is torture. I would like to sit down with these same americans and ask them what they would consider torture! Of course, it's a clever, if disturbing, way of doing things. If you think that say, sleep deprivation is not torture, then you can affirm, hand on the Bible that you have not tortured and in your mind it would not be a lie. I find that shocking.

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