Mukasey and the Jesuit Tradition

I really ought to be posting stuff on my blog rather than Facebook, since, well, I have a blog and all. I know this won't get more than the occassional reader, but, better to use it than let it sit here taking up space on the Web. So, I posted this last little rant in response to recent events at Boston College. I write for the law school's blog and I posted an op/ed on Attorney General Mike Mukasey, essentially saying "hey, let's cut the guy a break with the whole waterboarding thing, the guy's in an impossible situation, let's not hate on him for refusing to prosecute people ex-post facto."
That, of course, did not sit well with the bleeding-heart liberal faction (which is bigger than you'd expect at a Catholic institution). Don't get me wrong, I agree w/ them that torture of any kind is horrible and waterboarding ought to be included in that category. It scares me, though, when people let their blind passions completely overatke reasoned argument and discourse in these situations. There's room for both. Anyway, some of that blind passion led to one commenter implying that I was, in fact, a bigoted white supremacist because I somehow did not care about human rights. Because I wrote an article in the most neutral tone possible. I guess if I'm not on his side, I'm a tool.
It's things like that that make me fear for humanity. I wrote the following in response to that guy, who we shall hereafter refer to as simply "the douchebag."

I guess a bunch of people are pissed off that Mike Mukasey is coming as the BCLS commencement speaker, citing two main reasons:
1. His selection represents a departure from the Jesuit standards and tradition because waterboarding is evil and he won't just come out and say so.
2. Students don't have a say in picking the speaker.
I talked with a good friend of mine (a Catholic, mind you), and we came to a conclusion, so far as the first point is concerned. Apparently Mukasey is a "departure" from the "Jesuit tradition" because of his tacit acceptance (or non-rejection) of waterboarding, or something along those lines (a dubious assertion, at best).
Well what the hell, like torture isn't part of the Jesuit history? Can we say "Inquisition," anybody?

Anybody?

Buhler?

I'm pretty sure strapping an innocent peon to a rack because they won't confess to being a heretic counts as torture. At least the Marines waterboard suspected terrorists instead of drawing and quartering astronomers who say the world is round.

Oh and let's not forget those wonderful Crusades.

Yeah, waterboarding is wrong. Fine. It sucks, but let's not transfer our distaste for an act on to this Mukasey character and call it "fighting for justice."