Story Comments

This comment is below the standard viewing threshold View It »

We will see if Obama is serious about joining the world's democracies and abandoning our military imperialism when we see if he signs the US up to the international criminal court.

There is no question that we have a boatload of criminals that need trials. This article provides a good list of them and provides Obama a good opportunity to show whether he will really enforce the american constitution.

The torture trail starts and ends in the White House

...This disclosure comes after the Senate Armed Services Committee’s detailed report, which debunks almost all the claims that Bush Administration officials have thrown up to put investigators off the trail of the torture policy. The claim that the decision to introduce torture was done to accommodate interrogators who were frustrated by their inability to get results, for instance, is belied by the fact that the White House was busy pursuing torture techniques and authority to introduce them before any prisoners had yet been taken....

But each of these disclosures points again to a great mass of potential evidence remaining securely hidden. Colin Powell himself has repeatedly noted that the National Security Council was the center of activity with respect to the introduction of torture and that it carefully documents its internal processes with minutes and records. He urged those pursuing the issue to press for full disclosure of these materials. His guidance (which is remarkable among other things because he will himself be at the center of the inquiry) is revealed by the Holder memorandum to be spot-on....

President Obama and several of his senior advisors are now plainly concerned about the torture issue and the momentum it has achieved. ... We know now that the White House considers it politically “inconvenient” to do this. So the big open question is whether we have an attorney general who enforces the law, or a Democratic version of Alberto Gonzales. That will become apparent soon enough.

http://www.propeller.com/story/2009/04/26/the-tort...

0 Replies

This comment is below the standard viewing threshold View It »

Of coures Spade, the other group that has richly earned international criminal trials over the past 60 years are the zionists in Palestine. You do support trials for them as well don't you?

Investigating Israeli War Crimes in Gaza

... Amnesty International accused Israel of war crimes and called on the UN Security Council to impose an arms embargo. ...

...Physicians for Human Rights-Israel (PHRI) and the Palestinian Medical Relief Society (PMRS) compiled detailed evidence of war crimes in a lengthy report...

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va=...

5 Replies

This comment is below the standard viewing threshold View It »

Another Spadecaller idiocy. What is the Federal law regarding torture? Is waterboarding considered torture according to the US law?

Here is the Federal law foolish libs. Notice that there is no pain associated with waterboarding and the “severe mental pain or suffering” does not qualify either. Congress in 2002 approved these methods but now they have amnesia. Democrats are lying about this for political advantage as well as Obama hurting our interrogation of terrorists by releasing those documents. It was done to only three men and the information obtained saved an attack on LA that could have killed thousands. Spadecaller wishes that those thousands were killed instead. What a bloodthirsty guy.

---------------------------------------------
US Code TITLE 18, PART I, CHAPTER 113C
2340. Definitions

As used in this chapter—

(1) “torture” means an act committed by a person acting under the color of law specifically intended to inflict severe physical or mental pain or suffering (other than pain or suffering incidental to lawful sanctions) upon another person within his custody or physical control;

(2) “severe mental pain or suffering” means the prolonged mental harm caused by or resulting from—
(A) the intentional infliction or threatened infliction of severe physical pain or suffering;
(B) the administration or application, or threatened administration or application, of mind-altering substances or other procedures calculated to disrupt profoundly the senses or the personality;
(C) the threat of imminent death; or
(D) the threat that another person will imminently be subjected to death, severe physical pain or suffering, or the administration or application of mind-altering substances or other procedures calculated to disrupt profoundly the senses or personality; and

(3) “United States” means the several States of the United States, the District of Columbia, and the commonwealths, territories, and possessions of the United States.
---------------------------------------------

2 Replies