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Posted By TechnologyExpert 1 year, 6 months ago in NewsSixty years after the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, governments in scores of countries still torture or mistreat their people, Amnesty International said Wednesday in a report that again urged the United States to close down the GuantÃ;¡namo Bay detention camp in Cuba.
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Charlson1 year, 6 months ago
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Boy aren't we in an exclusive club...China, Russia and the European Union. Could we call it the Torturer's Club International? When a government condones torture as a national policy; that government no longer has a high moral ground in which to govern. You've sunk to the level of your enemies and are no better than they are, in getting what you want, by breaking laws to get it. If individuals break laws in our society, society would lock them up. Who will lock up those responsible in our own government? Our system is not working anymore when criminals in government can condone torture and get away with it.
And don't think I wouldn't torture you and kill you if you'd kidnapped or hurt my family. But I'd take the responsibilty and punishment for my behavior unlike my government. And my crime would be personal and not state sanctioned.
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djn3nunez31 year, 6 months ago
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I think the moral high ground was a myth that GW has help debunk. The veil has been lifted from many American eyes
A Brief History of U.S. Interventions:
1945 to the Present
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Blum/US_Inter...
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MajJohn1 year, 6 months ago
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Its reputation to repair??? With whom? Fully 1/2 of all the countries in the UN are in complicity. That being the case just which countries are we to impress? Or does Amnesty International set the standard for all of us to live up to?
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Poulenc1 year, 6 months ago
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"The report assailed the moral leadership of the United States, saying that, as "the world's most powerful state" it "sets the standard for government behavior globally." But, Amnesty International said, the United States had 'distinguished itself in recent years through its defiance of international law.'"
It is to weep. And to ENRAGE! How could a few men (and one woman), bent solely on perpetuating their own power, and acting "on behalf" of America's wealthiest, bring this country to its knees morally?
We, all of us, must also accept a share of the blame, because of our silence.
But, one hopes, a lesson has been learned. And a corner turned.
Let us show this is so in November!
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automan9091 year, 6 months ago
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The people in Guantanimo are lucky to be alive at all. The Geneva Convention allows the execution of enemy combatants that do not wear uniforms identifying themselves as the enemy.
They all could have been shot on sight instead of captured.
Some that were let go went out and did more terrorism.
If you want to close it down then what do you do with them?
I'm all for letting them finally meet Allah in person.
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tkyrchncs1 year, 6 months ago
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earthlingerer1 year, 6 months ago
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I think that the Geneva Conventions are quite clear in their reach. If you act like an army or militia, you are a POW.
Of course, if you're an a$$ lover like Feith, you'll differ, claiming that these INTERNATIONAL agreements act as "law in the service of terrorism."
But Feith is a citizen of another country, besides the US. He has a definite bias.
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nikkibabe1 year, 6 months ago
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BB641 year, 6 months ago
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Nik, I'm sorry you're just wrong. Try Russia. People magically disappear on a regular basis, the FSS is as bad as the KGB ever was. China, Syria, Iran, Saudi, North Korea, Venezuela, Chile, Libya, Egypt and the rest of Africa, Myanmar, Vietnam, and Cambodia all have worse standards when it comes to human rights. You could add Mexico to that also if you're using physical beatings and theft from their law enforcement people. Torture is very common depending upon your definition.
As to the USA, for the most part, I think Gitmo is properly when dealing with the folks currently held. If they were in Saudi, they'd be executed already. They should be treated as spies and when they have no further information we need, then execute them as the spies they are.
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onlyonesecret1 year, 6 months ago
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Former Attorney General testifies that government is planning on martial law and has a secret list of citizens to be picked up and placed into detention centers.
http://www.radaronline.com/from-the-magazine/20...
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Dionys1 year, 6 months ago
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Here ya go:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/05...
Now all we need is an event to precipitate the "National Continuity Policy" and there go the elections.
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saintetienne1 year, 6 months ago
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"Sixty years after the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, governments in scores of countries still torture or mistreat their people"
Well if this isn't a clarion call for the complete dismantling of the Useless...er, United Nations, then I don't know what is.
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getreal11 year, 6 months ago
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I don't want you to think I'm for torture, but if you look back into history You will find that these terrorist are descendants of people that invented torture. They have been hell bent on destroying any one who does not worship in their concept of the great maker. These people are like coma cosies from out of Pearl Harbor. They the terrorist made sure that we went to Iraq. Bush fell for it hook, line and sinker. It fit his pocket book. Our people were in a lot of pain and anger from being attacked. Now if Amnesty International has a way to make peace then speak up. What they don't understand is that they may be the next ones that get attacked. I'll bet it will be a different story if one of their people were to loose their head literally.
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dissent1 year, 6 months ago
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"You will find that these terrorist are descendants of people that invented torture."
pure bs. this is dumb racism pretending to be intellectual and claiming historical evidence which i see you've been real careful not to provide
btw, coma cosies? rflmao!!
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bamababy1 year, 6 months ago
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Please everyone, if given the opportunity, go and see the documenatry movie "Taxi to the Dark Side", It will surely open your eyes to the autocities perpetraded by GWB & CO. These people have defied international laws,constitutioanl laws,military laws and countless other laws and what have they accomplished? I saw no "Shock and Awe" and if "Mission Accomplished" were true,why then are our soldiers still being slaughterd and their lives as they knew them being forever changed? They are ill equipt in the field and we don't give them the care they so desperately need when they return home. George W. Bush and all his little soildersI"m referring to his staffers) should be brought up on war crimes and dealt with on the world stage for all to see that,these people are not the true faces of America and we do not beleive in or condone the tactics used by the Bush administration during his reign of terror.
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