Your moment of o_O

[sabotabby]

Private airline firms sue the CIA over the costs of transporting people to secret prisons to be tortured. No, seriously.

[Poll #1774888]

This is why almost all conspiracy theories are bullshit, by the way. Because this stuff isn't hidden. It's just that most people are too lazy and callous to do anything about it.

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[nihilistic-kid.livejournal.com]

You forgot "Airlines win; libertarians hail increased efficiency of competitive torture-flight marketplace as example of freedom."

[sabotabby]

*sob*

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

Tea Party demands that detainees pay their own transportation costs

[sabotabby]

If this weren't so likely to happen, I would laugh.

[eumelia.livejournal.com]

*blink-blink*

So, yeah.

Pity there isn't a ticky-boc option, because I think the consequences would be that the CIA just used a different company and gave more cash and thus rendering any kind of action against these torture flights nonexistent.

[sabotabby]

I'll file that under "nonexistent."

[eumelia.livejournal.com]

Yeah.

:(

[misslynx.livejournal.com]

My choice: news site commenters overlook torture element entirely in favour of griping about frivolous lawsuits and well-they-should-have-thought-of-that-before-they-took-the-contract.

[sabotabby]

Well, they should have.

[poetic-pixie-13.livejournal.com]

The other options are all nice thoughts though. =/

[sabotabby]

A girl can dream.

[lienne.livejournal.com]

Sabs your friends are all cynical fucks.

[sabotabby]

I am SO shocked.

[lienne.livejournal.com]

it's not even that you've got sixteen cynical fucks so far, it's that NOT ONE OF US has selected anything but the depressingly realistic option NOT EVEN AS A JOKE.

I mean really.

[franklanguage.livejournal.com]

It's now up to 33 cynical fucks, and I'm one of them.

[cupric-acetate.livejournal.com]

Like your friends are any better.

[smhwpf.livejournal.com]

Hee, only one not to say non-existent. I think they might rethink outsourcing a little, it's the sort of thing they're doing a bit in the government. Probably with very little concrete results.

With everyone else in terms of there being none of the sort of consequences that *ought* to happen.

[sabotabby]

Maybe? You'd think Blackwater would have caused them to rethink outsourcing.

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

They did. They switched to Xe Services.

[snarkitysnarks.livejournal.com]

I think the only people who remember history become history teachers, hoping to contribute some young, bright, worldy politicians to the next generation, but in reality only generating more history teachers.

I say this and I'm planning on going into Art History, so I'm pretty much, well...I guess I don't have anything to say about that.

[sabotabby]

This is probably true. But actually, I am feeling less cynical than usual today owing to the latest pre-election poll numbers and a candlelight vigil where I met a whole bunch of cool neighbours.

[mendaciloquent.livejournal.com]

I don't see tax cuts on your list. In 'murca, tax cuts are a potential consequence of anything. You can't hardly take a shit without someone cutting yer taxes over it.