In a move which many will see as treason, the Times Newspaper of London has promised to seriously consider dropping its scare quotes in all references to substantiated torture – by the year 3001.“This is our current policy when mentioning torture generally,” said editor Elbereth Mitchell, “except where the ugly deeds have been carried out by agents of one recently ousted regime in an allied country. We just felt that in another few hundred years, the inconsistency could begin to look ridiculous.”
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