Still Evil

• Slavery in South Korea:  disabled workers harvesting sea salt.
• The movie version should be interesting:  Chinese double agent and political party fundraiser and donor.  Via Mercury Rising, 
• At Friends of Justice, via The Slacktivist, a Christian's response to the Senate Intelligence Committee's report on torture.

  More troubling is the substitution of a “conservative” position for a Christian position. American evangelicals, by and large, are conservatives first and Christians second. They forget that their Savior was born in a manger who became an illegal alien in Egypt in order to flee the legal violence of Empire. Finally, our Lord was tortured mercilessly by the Imperial guard before being nailed to a Roman cross.
  
  If you don’t see Jesus on the water boarding table; if you don’t get that it’s Jesus standing for hours in a dark room on a broken leg; if you don’t realize that it’s Jesus dying of hypothermia on a cold, urine-soaked floor, and if you don’t understand the ultimate target of the anal probe, you don’t grasp what happened on Good Friday and, just as significantly, you haven’t reckoned with our complicity in the extra judicial crucifixions outlined in the Senate Committee’s report.

  See, I've been muttering for a while now that people who identify as Christian should be identifying with Christ in that narrative; a lot of Americans seem to be identifying with the Roman soldiers.