posted on July 24, 2002 03:12:22 AM new
The government is always saying that those who are doing no wrong should not fear an open inquiry into their affairs.
Now when the shoe is on the other foot they want no inspection - siding with the worst of the worlds heavy handed regimes.
posted on July 24, 2002 06:17:31 AM new
We'll find out later down the road,and it
won't be pretty.
I am surprized Castro isnt raiseing hell
with the U.N.
posted on July 24, 2002 07:37:35 AM new
Why would the United States want to derail a process that has been protecting human rights all over the world and has been effective in eliminatiing torture for the last ten years? According to Amnesty International's Annual Report 2002, people were reportedly tortured or ill-treated by security forces, police or other state authorities in 111 countries.
Bush continues to aggravate the entire world. Yesterday it was Israel, today it is the European Union and countries in most regions of the world.
posted on July 24, 2002 02:12:37 PM new
The crowded living conditions in some US prisons might lead to a charge of torture. It would cost tax payers more money to make the prisons "humane".
But I agree that there should be no language that would allow visits to the prisoners at GITMO. The isolation is part of the tactic to get the prisoners to talk. They don't even allow the prisoners to speak to each other. But if we wanted these prisoners tortured for information, we wouldn't have taken them. We would have turned them over to their own countries- then there would be real torture.
We have actually saved the lives of these prisoners by taking them into custody. If they were sent back to Egypt or Saudi Arabia they would be tortured and killed.
