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2007-12-15 08:26:37 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Check the Military Commissions Act of 2006, Check what the highest law enforcement officer appointed by Bush the incoming & outgoing Attorney General says.
Regarding the new catch phrase "enemy combatant" we can interpret and make all kinds of laws that are immoral. If its immoral to do that to US citizens its immoral to do that to anyone. Now under our law it is legal to torture US as well as foreign humans.
2007-12-15 08:53:12 · update #1
That is a very good solution to the Crime problem in the USA!!
2007-12-15 09:06:04 · answer #1 · answered by Vagabond5879 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I don't believe you are a officer of the law. However if you are why would you ask such a really nutty question? The truth is law enforcement does use torture. Also they already know who the main players in distribution in any given area. I know who they are in my area. Doesn't it make since that the District Attorney and the various law enforcement agencies know. Yet year in and year out the main players don't get touched. Gosh I wonder why? Because they (powers at be) don't want to stop it. CORRUPTION IN THE LEGAL SYSTEM IS THE REASON THE DRUG TRADE EXISTS. At least to the extent it does. Get a squatter every once in a while but don't touch the Big Boys. There is a solution to the problem. LEGALIZE IT !!!!!!!!!!!!! Treat it just like Booze. Take the profit out of selling it. There are not as many by far Moonshiners as there were during prohibition. If you want to kill a tree (AND I AM JUST USING THIS FOR AN ANALOGY) I would not go pluck a leaf periodically I would go after the roots. So why don't you guys go after the roots? In other words don't treat the symptoms kill the cause. PROFIT!!! I personallyl do not use any kind of narcotics. I do have enough common sense to know that you as law enforcement are never going to stop usage. You could slow down Crime to a great degree, if that indeed is your motive. Is it? d
2016-05-24 02:43:05 · answer #2 · answered by raguel 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
First define torture,there is a thin line between torture and exerting fear through simulated action.Water boarding simulates the feeling of drowning,it does not leave any injury or maim . Iron maidens and the rack are not used any more.We do not drive bamboo chutes under finger nails.I do not know how you came to think torture was legal any where.
Those peace loving terrorist beat, burn and strangle their victims. Then behead them while video taping it and broadcasting it for the world to see.
If one of these A holes plants a WMD in your city and is captured before it goes off.What do you want the law enforcement to do,use strong language,give them a time out.
2007-12-15 09:07:35 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Torture is not legal. The debate is what constitutes a torture. Where to draw the line?
Enemy combatants are viewed as a different population as civilian citizens and therefore different parameters are established, politically speaking and by law.
2007-12-15 08:46:36 · answer #4 · answered by Mere Exposure 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The "third degree" was eliminated in most US cities by the 1940s.
Why do you say that torture is legal.
Criminal suspects within the country are protected by the 5th Amendment, but enemy combatants and civilians held outside the US are not. At least that is what the Supreme Court has been alluding.
2007-12-15 08:35:18 · answer #5 · answered by BruceN 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Torture is not legal in the USA, but our troops can use mild forms of torture against our radical Islamic fanatical enemy. These people are not soldiers, but ruthless mass murderers of civilians.
Our police routinely use physical violence or the threat of physical violence against certain suspects, the poor and the clueless, to get confessions. Didn't you ever watch NYPD Blue?
2007-12-15 08:40:28 · answer #6 · answered by Shane 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Torture isn't legal--that's why.
The fact that the so-called president we are stuck with for another year supports torture doesn't make it legal. Bush does not make the laws in this country, despite what he and his followers seem to think.
2007-12-15 08:39:13 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Torture is the paramount identifier of what makes us Americans.
Just ask the other 7 Billion people on Earth.
How the mighty have fallen. Remember when we were the land of the free and the home of the brave
2007-12-15 08:35:31 · answer #8 · answered by Guerilla Liberal fighter 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Actually it is not legal. On a side note the police are allowed to do something that is against international law. The military is not allowed to use chemical weapons,in the US the police are allowed to use chemical weapons against citizens.
2007-12-15 08:35:51 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Wrong Country Richard.
2007-12-15 08:30:05 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋