September 20, 2006
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jihad.
ARRGH!
The House Judiciary Committee has (albiet very narrowly) voted to
endorse the President’s plans for the “tough interrogations” (read
torture) of foreign terrorism suspects.Go read the Bill of Rights.
These are the principles our nation is founded on. If there be any, these are the finest gifts we have to give the world.
These
rights, to have meaning, must be extended to the worst among us. To the
most vile, reprehensible animals in a human body and perhaps even
beyond. Without that, they mean nothing. When you permit torture of
one, you permit torture of all. When you deny due process to one, you
deny due process to all.Our nation and the principles it is founded upon are in grave, grave danger of being destroyed in the ways that matter most.
What are we going to do about it? What am I going to do about it? What are you going to do about it?
We are currently engaged in the struggle that will define our lives.
Comments (2)
I agree that it is very sad that torture tactics are being used to interrogate. I just keep thinking of it as “what if the shoe were on the other foot?” I don’t like the thought of being tortured. It makes me squirm thinking of it. But we actually got into a convo about this while on vacation and the men in the group were just very bluntly stating that no matter what bill is passed now, before all this there was torture and “mysterious” dissapearing prisoners and “secret prisons” that no one here even knows about that all this torturing goes on at. So, no matter what we say or what bills we pass it seems that the torturing will still be around. Sick sick sick.
It should remain a crime and be fervently prosecuted whenever discovered. Every single person who participates in it and every person who knows about it and lets it happen is guilty of a war crime. If we legalize it, then it is all of us.