This letter is in response to your speech at the hearing on the “practice of extraordinary rendition”. I understand you are a really busy man and might have forgotten what you said, so allow me to recap.

“One person — if we let, if in order to protect the rights of one or two people, or five people or ten people, who are mistakenly abducted because their names were the same or because they went to a mosque that they didn’t know this thing was going on in the back room, if 10 of those people suffer those consequences, but in order for us to take 90 other people off the street who are intent and involved in plans that would slaughter tens of thousands of our citizens, I’m afraid that’s the price we pay in a real world.”

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All I have to say is, bravo Mr Rohrabacher. You tell it how it is, and everyone else tells it how it might be and I respect that. Sometimes people forget that freedom comes with a price, and the cost of this “freedom” is the accidental torture of a couple of people. Come on, it’s not REALLY that bad if you think of it in a cosmic sense, so Why are people making such a huge fuss over extraordinary rendition may save thousands? So what if a dude is kidnapped, tortured, thrown into the streets a year later, child dies of starvation, wife does prostitution to feed the family and gets aids etc. So what if this family ends up to be another one of those families that blame America for what happened to them, and vows to punish those who put his family through hell for “no reason”.

Well excuse me Mr, maybe if you weren’t so negative, you might realise that the torture of you and your family could’ve potentially saved thousands of lives elsewhere. If you don’t, it’s obvious that you ARE indeed a terrorist for you don’t see the greater good in our actions, and in that case, deserved what you got. In fact, you should be happy that you now played a role in saving the lives of thousands of others overseas. I bet the thousands of dead Iraqi civilians who are now in heaven with 71 dark haired virgins are going “thank you America, my death saved 1/10th of an American life.” Unless you are really a terrorist, in which case you deserved the torture. HA!
And what about those damn liberals who are against this cause. It’s not like you’re pushing for the eradication of the middle east or anything (What a great idea though. It’s like what you’re doing but better. If we totally destroy the middle east, there wouldn’t be anymore terrorists!). These terrorists need to be found in order to save lives, and if we can’t beat them, we have to join them, and by god you’re doing a good job. Dictionary.com defines a terrorist as “a person who tries to frighten people or governments into doing what he/she wants by using or threatening violence.” Frighten? Who wants to frighten? Take action I say!

In closing, I really enjoyed your speech and I could totally understand your patriotism. Torture should be accepted today as they were centuries ago. I mean, why can’t people understand that torturing just works? If torture was put on a halt because of tree hugging liberals back then, them pesky witches would still be flying around casting spells on men, causing adulterous thoughts to fill their heads. Oh those witches.

‘I Hope It’s Your Families That Suffer’ - Rohrabacher.