Did you ever think in a million years that the United States would be torturing people with official approval?

Question

I cannot believe some of the things that the Bush Administration condones, and even promotes.
I though that we went to Iraq to get rid of torture?

Answer 1

It disturbs me every second of every day. To blatantly ignore the Geneva convention is now putting every international treaty of pack in danger since the United States now backs out of agreements.

The America I Believe In doesn't torture people or use cruel, inhumane treatment. . . doesn't hold people without charge, without fair trials, without hope, and without end. . .doesn't kidnap people off the street and ship them to nations known for their brutality. . .doesn't condone prisoner abuse and excuse high-ranking government officials from responsibility for that abuse. . .doesn't justify the use of secret prisons. . .and does not rob people of their basic dignity.

And for those who defend torture, maybe you should learn what torture IS
Torture can be physical and include various techniques including: beating, whipping, burning, rape, suspension upside down, submersion into water almost to the point of suffocation, and electric torture with shocks of high voltage on various parts of the body, very often on the genitals.

And it can be psychological, including threats, deceit, humiliation, insults, sleep deprivation, blindfolding, isolation, mock executions, witnessing torture of others (including one’s own family), being forced to torture or kill others, and the withholding of medication or personal items.

Physical and neurological complications include soreness of wounds, painful scars, stiffness of limbs and muscles, atrophy and paralysis of muscles, hearing and vision loss, and persistent headaches. Torture survivors suffer psychological symptoms such as feelings of anxiety, guilt and shame, powerlessness in relation to the problems of everyday life, problems with concentration, poor sleep with frequent nightmares, and impotence.

http://www.amnestyusa.org/silencetorture/

Answer 2

What torture? We went to Iraq to bring democracy but they are in the middle of a civil war and would only unite in the hatred for poor little Israel. Have you seen the movies of gUATANOMO? dO YOU THINK CAPTURED GIs
live as well and with air conditioning? What should interrogators do, make them a coffee and give them a coissant and then say PLEWASSSSSSSSSE Mr. Abdulah give us the location of Osama ben Laden. Come into the 21st centruy/

Answer 3

Meanwhile for those of us that are ill

Need the "Machine" to help you survive a couple weeks ~ CUT!!! Shivo had Millions of Dollars, not Government assistence

Autistic ~ NO MONEY FOR YOU,.. Assistence is being cut, research has been stopped,.. your child has problems.. the Government is trying to not get involved any more

You have difficulty walking, will soon not be able to walk a couple steps or already are in that position ~ Right now they are trying to cut back on people getting Electic Wheel Chairs,.. they'd like to stop that altogether.


It's very sad when you talk to a child online, their parent is going to die,.. their parent dies,.. you never talk to them again,.. because some how the State or Federal Government cut what their Parent needed to survive.

Answer 4

No, Bush must love it! He got them to change the law to say the Geneva Conventions language is what Bush says it is, and he can change it any way he wants to and not be tried as a War Criminal, though I think the Act is illegal!

We aren't fighting terrorism, we are fighting for oil, where have you been? Why don't you get your hands dirty? Why are we fighting, Bush is trashing the Constitution and taking away libertys like habeas corpus

The first Continental Congress, in the Declaration of Rights adopted October 14, 1774, resolved unanimously: “That the respective colonies are entitled to the Common Law of England, and more specifically the great and inestimable privilege of being tried by their peers of the vicinage, according to the course of that law.” 1 Journals of Congress 28.

When the Magna Carta declares that no freeman should be deprived of life, etc., ‘but by the judgment of his peers or by the law of the land,’ it referred to a trial by twelve jurors.” In another case, the Supreme Court stated: “trial by jury in the primary and usual sense of the term at the common law and in the American constitutions is not merely a trial by a jury of twelve men before an officer vested with authority to cause them to be empanelled, to administer oaths to them and to the constable in charge, and to enter judgment and issue execution on their verdict; but it is a trial by a jury of twelve men, in the presence and under the superintendence of a judge empowered to instruct them on the law and to advise them on the facts.” Capital Traction Company v. Hof, 174 US 1.

“That a jury composed, as at common law, of twelve jurors was intended by the Sixth Amendment to the Federal Constitution, there can be no doubt.” Maxwell v. Dow 176 U.S. 581, 586.

“The constitutional requirement that ‘the trial of all crimes, except in cases of impeachment, shall be by jury’ means, as this court has adjudged, a trial by the historical, common law jury of twelve persons, and applies to all crimes against the United States…” Rassmussen v. United States, 197 U.S. 516,529. And finally, they stated: “….we must first inquire what is embraced by the phrase ‘trial by jury.’ That it means trial by jury as understood and applied at common law, and includes all the essential elements as they were recognized in this country and England when the Constitution was adopted, is not open to question. Those elements were---(1) that the jury should consist of twelve men, neither more or less; (2) that the trial should be in the presence and under the superintendence of a judge having power to instruct them as to the law and advise them in respect of the facts; and (3) that the verdict should be unanimous.” Patton et al v. United States, 281 U.S. 276.

To quote Justice Marshall “…I adhere to the decision of the Court in Thompson v. Utah (1898), that the jury guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment consists "of twelve persons, neither more nor less." As I see it, the Court has not made out a convincing case that the Sixth Amendment should be read differently than it was in Thompson even if the matter were now before us de novo - much less that an unbroken line of precedent going back over 70 years should be overruled.”

Bush can declare you a combatant, lock you up and throw away the keys just for being "On the wrong side"!! You don't have the right to be tried by a civilian court, or are you entitled to a jury!

Answer 5

Torture isn't necessary. I'm sure if we offered the terrorists a stick of gum, a cigarette, maybe a Pepsi, and then asked them nicely, they'd tell us everything we want to know.

Answer 6

the us attitude towards the human rights has not got to this point overnight,nor only since bush came to power...its been ongoing since ww2,it just got more visible....the american people is as guilty as their president,i guess,having voted him in and supported him all the way! i hope there s some good people left in ur once beautiful country to start changin all thats wrong with amerika....

Answer 7

Sad huh? What's really sad is that not one American stood up for their rights...not for the Patriot Act or the Military Commissions Act or the Wiretapping Bill. I don't think America is long for this earth.

Answer 8

If Americans value their rights and liberties, then they cannot allow a man who defies the Constitution to remain in office. Such would encourage not only Bush, but future commanders-in-chief, to encroach further on American freedoms. I say, impeach Bush now.

Answer 9

Thats the problem with the right wing: They preach to others about freedom but never practise it.

Answer 10

All the world believes it except Amerians