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| Amnesty Condemns US for War on Terror Torture | |
| 2004-10-27 | |
The United States has manifestly failed to uphold obligations to reject torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading behavior in the "war on terror" launched after Sept. 11, 2001, Amnesty International said in a report to be released today. The human rights group condemned the US administration's response to the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington as one which had resulted in its own "iconography of torture, cruelty and degradation." "The war mentality the government has adopted has not been matched with a commitment to the laws of war and it has discarded fundamental human rights principles along the way," it said in a report. Amnesty's report — "Human dignity denied: Torture and accountability in the 'war on terror'" — accused Washington of stepping onto a "well-trodden path of violating basic rights in the name of national security or 'military necessity'." At best, Washington was guilty of setting conditions for torture and cruel treatment by lowering safeguards and failing to respond adequately to allegations of abuse, it said.
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| Posted by:Fred |
| #18 Sounds like a law of physics -- if nothing is done to prevent it, all things tend towards disorder. |
| Posted by: V is for Victory 2004-10-27 5:40:34 PM |
| #17 O'Sullivan's Law has captured AI: Any organization not explicitly right-wing will become left-wing over time. (See: Ford Foundation, National Geographic, ...) |
| Posted by: jackal 2004-10-27 4:41:27 PM |
| #16 âHuman dignity denied:.. Those people that have gotten their heads cut off in cold blood? I'd say they were denied some dignity. |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2004-10-27 4:38:53 PM |
| #15 As I recall, AI used to complain about innocents being deprived of their liberty or life under various dictatorships. I thought it was interesting, albeit ineffectual. I'd rather see tyrants killed or captured than have a bunch of AI groupies writing 10,000 letters of complaint to said tyrants. And now the hippies are aiming their complaints at the people who actually topple blood-thirsty tyrants. |
| Posted by: Kalle (kafir forever) 2004-10-27 9:48:53 AM |
| #14 G-2 might not like that. |
| Posted by: Mrs. Davis 2004-10-27 9:42:02 AM |
| #13 Perhaps a better answer would be to take no prisoners. |
| Posted by: SR71 2004-10-27 9:37:32 AM |
| #12 This is an attempt by AI to soddimize that prisoner abuse dead horse yet again in order to swing the election. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2004-10-27 9:15:41 AM |
| #11 Another attempt by furners to influence the election. Did Soros do the coordination of foreigners so it would be under the SMERSH umbrella instead of the DNC? |
| Posted by: Mrs. Davis 2004-10-27 8:36:29 AM |
| #10 as always B , quality words :) |
| Posted by: MacNails 2004-10-27 8:16:27 AM |
| #9 Bulldog, a nice metaphor. And right on the mark. |
| Posted by: Cornîliës 2004-10-27 5:25:20 AM |
| #8 I'll be generous and ascribe part of the problem to searching under the streetlight laziness. But the real problem is that AI has entered the 'red giant' phase of its existence. What was once a bright, clear, focused and energetic star has become a ruddy bloated gasbag; nebulous and ineffectual, and ready to die. Overtaken by partisan Lefties who as is their tendency, once in a position of power pack the organisation with like-minded cronies who between them burn up its reserves of credibility before the whole thing either explodes spectacularly, or shrinks, to die a forgotten and unlamented death. |
| Posted by: Bulldog 2004-10-27 4:45:54 AM |
| #7 Better in Abu Ghraib with panties on your head than no head at all. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2004-10-27 1:51:30 AM |
| #6 |
| Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy 2004-10-27 1:50:24 AM |
| #5 Amnestry says nothing about the beheading because they are allies of the beheaders. What other reason could there be. Torture is bad. It's not the policy of the US government or Military. As I recall a guy just got 8 years for his part. Amnesty is full of crap. |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom 2004-10-27 1:22:07 AM |
| #4 From the original: The torture and ill-treatment of Iraqi detainees by US agents in Abu Ghraib prison was â due to a failure of human rights leadership at the highest levels of government â sadly predictable. ...In the mix was an elusive, ill-defined and demonized enemy...and an apocalyptic picture painted by government of a stark moral choice between "good and evil" faced by society and wider "civilization". Hey badanov, I think you're right. "demonized enemy"??? |
| Posted by: Rafael 2004-10-27 1:20:49 AM |
| #3 AI has the usual lefty NGO flaw of condemning only those who might possibly give a damn about their opinion. What about the endemic torture in the Arab monarchies, oligharchies and dictatorships, guys? China? Russia? No? Figures. |
| Posted by: mojo 2004-10-27 1:13:41 AM |
| #2 I'd ask what's wrong with these people, but I already know. And it's damned discouraging. They're not on our team, Fred. |
| Posted by: badanov 2004-10-27 1:13:31 AM |
| #1 A prisoner in one photo was directed to stand on a box with his head hooded, and wires attached to his hands, and was told that if he fell off the box he would be electrocuted. Amnesty said the US and the rest of the world would be âhaunted by these and other images for years to comeâ... If a picture is worth a thousand words, then how much is a video worth? Seems Amnesty hasn't seen the beheadings. Or they have and just don't care. |
| Posted by: Rafael 2004-10-27 1:09:33 AM |