Torture in America – it will end in pizza

April 24, 2009 by William K. Wolfrum

In Brazil, they have a saying for corruption scandals – “It will end in pizza.” Basically, it means that politicians of all parties will get together, investigate themselves, find themselves innocent, and then all gather together afterward for a pizza party.

This, I believe, is how the Great Torture Debate of 2009 will play out. It will end in pizza.

Still, I believe there is one way to help push the possibility of having real investigations about the torture for which we are all complicit. Because for some reason, Republicans are now harping on Nancy Pelosi, and what, when and how she knew it. Here’s a very simple solution – let’s investigate Pelosi, also. Let’s investigate every politician that knew about our acts of torture. Let’s hold them all accountable.

But it will never happen. Because this will all end in pizza.

–WKW

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4 Responses to “Torture in America – it will end in pizza”

hugh.c.mcbride on April 24th, 2009 3:57 pm

Let’s investigate every politician that knew about our acts of torture. Let’s hold them all accountable.

What you describe can only occur if someone in a position of power commits an actual act of leadership.

We know that the members of the executive & legislative branches are all politicians, and we hope (and occasionally even believe) that some of ‘em are leaders. The existence (or lack thereof) of an honest investigation into U.S. acts of torture should answer that question once and for all.

Unfortunately for the nation, I’m inclined to agree with you as to the likelihood that anything approaching a real investigation will ever come to pass.
dgun on April 24th, 2009 4:42 pm

Your comments remind me of one of my favorite Twain shorts:

Cannibalism In The Cars

Spolier:

He would have finished the crowd by this time, only he had to get out here. He has got their names as pat as A B C. When he gets them all eat up but himself, he always says: ‘Then the hour for the usual election for breakfast having arrived; and there being no opposition, I was duly elected, after which, there being no objections offered, I resigned. Thus I am here.’”
Wee Mousie on April 25th, 2009 6:31 am

I think in America it would all end in singing.

Even if someone with enough clout to investigate, who was sufficiently independent to be believed, reported that 60 per cent of our elected representatives were implicated in acts of torture, his report’s import would be lost amidst the furor over the latest American Idol performance.
RockE on April 25th, 2009 9:10 am

To habitate a previous tenant’s abode and be faced with discovering and disclosing and deleting that previous tenant’s left behind trash would incline one to wish for hiring a cleaning service, and then go out for pizza.