Well you shouldn't be ignored because you make a lot of great historical points.
You hit many nails right on the head.
Torture has been proven to be quite often unreliable. There are other ways that are similarly productive and often torture is used more out of anger or just plain frustration from the interrogators than as something that is believed to really give outstanding intel results.
The internment camps were a very similar overreaction to how the Bush administration played on everyone fears after 9-11... never mind Iraq had nothing to do with that at all.
And the whole Conservative get Clinton on something (anything) at all costs "because that SOB is just too damn popular". I finally saw the Republican Party for what it was... petty, mean spirited and self absorbed. That is what truly in the end converted me from a fence sitting Independent to an activist Democrat.
And then they went and Swift Boated, defamed and character assassinated a war hero... a decorated in theater fighter, John Kerry. It was just simply beyond disgusting! So I worked and volunteered harder!
Sometimes it takes Americans a little while to detect the smear merchants from the victims... but if it goes on long enough the middle of the road voters jump over to try and see that the right thing finally gets done.
And that's exactly how President Obama was elected. 
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