I'm not saying that I have all the answers. Because I was educated in the American Public School system, I know very little about anything when it comes to politics and the world. Shit, I'm lucky if I can name all 42 states (Delaware's a state? No way! Get aht! Dere's no states called Delawares).
What I do know is that torturing people is pretty wrong and that if someone asked me if taking a pair of rusty hedge clippers to cut someone's Achilles tendon was something a civilized people would do, I'd say no way. In fact, I'd go as far to say, no fucking way.
The funny thing is the Senate has voted to back an amendment that would prohibit the use of "cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment" against anyone in U.S. government custody, regardless of where they are held. The vote ended 90/9 with 90 wishing to prohibit inhuman punishment and 9 saying, 'let's not be too hasty with the torture-elimination, boys.'
Now, being that I'm from the US, someone needs to check my math, but isn't that 10% of the Senate saying 'sure, drill holes in their teeth, apply pliers to their testicles and make sure to give them plenty of paper cuts to that piece of skin under the tongue?' Who are these 9 people that voted against this and why doesn't that raise a red flag somewhere?
Well, if no one will balk at this kind of activity, then I will just have to welcome our evil, torture validating overlords.
2 comments:
Holy sh*t ! Are you serious? 9 senators actually voted to keep that on the books? We need to find uot which 9. I wonder who they were...?
Neal, I love you dearly, but not sure I agree with this post. It's easy to get all warm and fuzzy over not wanting to abuse and neglect prisoners of war but I think we're talking about apples and oranges here... it's a sweeping bill that takes all flexibilty away from us (yes, the U.S.) to extract info from these assholes. Let's rewrite the bill to be a bit more specific. Of course we want to treat other humans with the dignity and respect we would want to be treated. We're dealing with people who want us (all of us) removed from this earth. I don't think they're playing by the same rules.
Here's an interesting post to consider:
http://junkyardblog.transfinitum.net/archives/week_2004_06_13.html#003190
Just my silly opinion.
XOXO
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