America continues to disgust me.

Digby has been writing about the use of tasers as torture devices for a long time, but this latest incident with a camera recording police torturing a suspect with tasers and batons doesn’t so much speak to me about tasers as it does about the cruelty inherent in our people.

Americans have fully embraced their inner lunatic, I think. Between the town hall screamers and the tea partiers and the remnants of the Republican party, along with the Dems who sell out anyone and everyone to Goldman Sachs, I think we’re seeing the very end of the American Empire as we eat ourselves alive.

Man it’s depressing.

Warning, the following video contains graphic violence and torture.

Of particular interest, note that after their torture has reduced this man to a quivering wreck, at 1:25 they put on the handcuffs. He’s now completely immobilized and crying uncontrollably.

So they try to break his legs with a baton, presumably to shut him up.

I hate it here.