That didn't start torturing their own citizens?
2007-12-16 08:24:11 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
That includes countries and empires throughout throughout history.
2007-12-16 08:24:54 · update #1
People people people, all those countries you named in the first 3 posts actually tortured their own people.
2007-12-16 08:33:17 · update #2
Gedger, you couldn't be more wrong! I love my country and I don't like Hillary. I'm a proud liberal and it's obvious that you can't use your own mind to make decisions but have to have Fox news make up your mind for you.
2007-12-17 05:07:09 · update #3
No I can't. I also like to say countries who tortured always claimed they were only torturing "the evil people". There's never been a regime in History that claimed to torture innocent citizens but intelligent people know the truth and the difference between intentions, words and actions once you go down that road
2007-12-16 08:39:51 · answer #1 · answered by justgoodfolk 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Japan tortured their prisoners of war. They also conducted surveillance on their own citizens but not in the way the U.S. does it. They actually had spy cells everywhere. Nazi Germany did this as well.....good question!
2007-12-17 10:32:57 · answer #2 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
the only one i can say for certain would be the old soviet union who certainly tortured their own citizens and certainly surveiled many of their own citizens.
i mean, how can we really know if the romans or the old british empire 'surveiled' their citizens?
i think the larger question, is are americans comfortable with that comparison?
is this who we are, or are we better than that?
2007-12-16 12:02:47 · answer #3 · answered by nostradamus02012 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
they don't look to be "prisoners of conflict," they are "distant places warring events." George W BuSh reported so. Torture remains a conflict crime and a human-rights violation. the rustic invaded Iraq on a trumped-up value, and yet condemned Russia for doing the comparable project in S. Ossetia, a community that borders on their u . s .. in simple terms because of the fact different international locations have achieved it, would not make it good, ethical, or criminal. leaving at the back of a theory because of the fact of worry in simple terms lowers the cost of your ethical outrage - it would not excuse committing a criminal offense.
2016-10-01 23:04:50 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Seriously. Hmm, okay, just about every major empire throughout history. The Spanish Empire, the British Empire, the Russian Empire, Germans, etc.
2007-12-16 08:30:06 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
China, Russia, India, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, nearly every country in the world at one time or another.
2007-12-16 08:38:52 · answer #6 · answered by Cecil n 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
You don't have a positive view on your country, I can see that. If Hillary was President, you wouldn't care. You would THEN want American citizens protected. Now you don't care because of Bush. That is quintessential liberalism!
2007-12-16 15:09:24 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
Let's see. Come on people, it's a redundant question.
Could you enlighten me though by giving names of those tortured? Those spied on?
Thanks.
2007-12-16 09:16:33 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I guess any former communist country would qualify (like the Soviet Union, East Germany, to mention two of the most important). In the present, who knows, I know only of the US, because of Bush, but who knows, really?
2007-12-16 08:31:01 · answer #9 · answered by Orocarlga 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
The Ming Dynasty.
2007-12-16 08:30:06 · answer #10 · answered by Splitters 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋