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Pat Boone says in letter to President ‘mama inflicted more actual physical pain than waterboarding'
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In his weekly WorldNetDaily column Pat Boon begins and ends an open letter to President Obama with a positive and one hopes sincere pledge to pray for him. Then the column devolves into an odd defense of torture claiming that:
May I tell you that my own mama inflicted more actual physical pain on me and my brother Nick – raising welts on our butts with a sewing machine belt when we got really out of line – than any of the techniques, including "waterboarding," that detainees of the U.S. military have endured
He further suggests a good option for Guantanamo is Antarctica:
So – and I'm very serious – why not load all these guys into a transport plane and fly them to deep Antarctica? Deposit them in barracks and drop food and necessary items by parachute once in a while. Let them compare being on their own in that snowbound environment with the three meals a day and "harsh treatment" they experienced in Cuba. Any better ideas? I didn't think so. Then shut the base, or convert it to a Motel 6.
Finally, he repeats that extreme right wing Christian canard that Obama plans to persecute Christians and ban right wing talk radio.
But, scarcely into your presidency, you seem hell-bent to marginalize Christianity and this country's Judeo-Christian foundation, allowing military chaplains to be harshly disciplined for praying in Jesus' name and promoting a so-called "fairness doctrine" that is designed to squelch conservative and Christian radio hosts and to equate Holy Scripture with "hate speech."
Pat Boone has in the past written about dreaming of deposing Obama and being installed as president. It has become boilerplate for right wing Christian extremists to endorse torture, theocracy and military insurrection. What makes Boone’s column so remarkable is that he frames his message favoring torture and disrespecting the commander in chief with thoughts of devout prayer for the man he dreams of removing from office. It is this disconnect that diminishes Christianity in the desire for power in this world.
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