the torture itself is then carried out by those among us happy to do so , usually for moneyand there are always plenty of those no matter where you care to look , and no matter in which era you care to look , including today of courseand finally there are the masses , the majority of the population in each of their applicable regions , who have freely elected the sit-on-your-ass birdbrains into their secure , well-paid positions to do , more or less , whatever they want . ''