All a Board

Cidu Bill on Aug 12th 2008

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Okay, wouldn’t this have made a lot more sense, say, 7 years ago?

Filed in Bill Bickel, China, Mike Peters, Mother Goose, Olympics, comic strips, comics, humor, waterboarding | 15 responses so far

15 Responses to “All a Board”

  1. David Aug 12th 2008 at 03:26 am 1

    Well, the Olympics weren’t held in China 7 years ago…

    Plus, while their records may have improved in that time, they’re still hardly amazing - http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/07/29/2317586.htm?site=olympics/2008

  2. Rain Aug 12th 2008 at 06:28 am 2

    as if we (speaking as a USian here) should talk?!

  3. HighJinx Aug 12th 2008 at 07:32 am 3

    Precisely what I was thinking, rain! I think the USA might win that one!

  4. Nicole Aug 12th 2008 at 09:30 am 4

    It is possible that we have had more recent practice in that particular event.

  5. Its Justme Aug 12th 2008 at 11:05 am 5

    I think that’s Bill’s point. We have done this in the past, we don’t do it now. That’s why he points out that the concept is dated. And no, Nicole, we haven’t done it recently, not for years. Man, I hate gratuitous USA bashing.

  6. Michael Aug 12th 2008 at 11:19 am 6

    Waterboarding is still part of current events. Last week there were reports of the waterboarding attraction at Coney Island.
    http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080807/od_nm/waterboarding_art_odd_dc

  7. Nicole Aug 12th 2008 at 11:24 am 7

    We should be ashamed that we have done it at all

  8. Scott Aug 12th 2008 at 12:43 pm 8

    Talk about undercutting the point. I can see a strip about China’s human right problems (the Tibetan bashing event?) but mentioning the practice that we’ve used and as far as I know they haven’t doesn’t do it. Maybe they should have mentioned that while the North Koreans aren’t great at Olympic sports, we seem to have gotten our interrogation practices from them.

  9. Nicole Aug 12th 2008 at 12:52 pm 9

    Actually, we have taken our interrogation cues from the Chinese

    http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/02/us/02detain.html

  10. Ian Osmond Aug 12th 2008 at 02:21 pm 10

    ItsJustMe: how do you know we don’t do it now? We knew that we didn’t do it then, when we were doing it.

    This is a problem with secrecy. We can’t tell if we’ve cleaned up our act or not, because the people who say that we have won’t let anyone else check up on it.

    Anyway, seven years ago, nobody knew about waterboarding — or, rather, only people who were paying attention did, which is not a large enough population to worry about — so one wouldn’t have had a comic about it.

  11. Dave Aug 12th 2008 at 02:40 pm 11

    Reading Mike Peters’ editiorial cartoons, it is obvious that he is very liberal, and his views are now bleeding over to his MG&G cartoons. Usually he keeps MG&G politically neutral, but now he is obviously trying to show his viewpoints on a larger audience.

  12. Cedric Aug 12th 2008 at 02:44 pm 12

    I think Ian said it all. Most people hadn’t even heard about water boarding until the past year. That’s when everybody found out we were doing it even though we weren’t.

  13. Andrew Aug 12th 2008 at 02:45 pm 13

    I think the waterboarding’s only in there because it’s a torture that sounds a bit like a sport. “Team boxing - the police are all over those monks” doesn’t make as good a punchline.

  14. Powers Aug 13th 2008 at 07:18 am 14

    Dave, “Waterboarding is bad” is not a “liberal viewpoint”. It’s the viewpoint of basic human decency.

  15. ShadZ Aug 20th 2008 at 08:32 pm 15

    Didn’t waterboarding used to be called Chinese water torture? That could be part of the joke…

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