Shut Down Guantanamo....
6/13/2005
Before Guantanamo shuts US down.
Prisoners are still protected by the Convention Against Torture AND by the Geneva Convention. Where the Geneva Convention protects the rights of Prisoners of War, the Convention Against Torture protects the rights of every man, woman and child against the use of Torture.
The Convention Against Torture also states that...
Each State Party shall take effective legislative, administrative, judicial or other measures to prevent acts of torture in any territory under its jurisdiction.We have ratified this treaty. If we do not shut down Guantanamo, we continue to violate the ethics, the freedoms, the human rights we have sworn to protect and promote. Which means this "War on Terror" is a boldfaced lie. And it is A Fucking Lie.
And yes, there are children being held at Guantanamo. Too bad more US newspapers didn't pick up the story back in 2003.
The US military has admitted that children aged 16 years and younger are among the detainees being interrogated at its prison camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.Insanity would be too kind a word to describe the mental states of our glorious leaders. Especially Vice President Dick Cheney, who has this to say:
"Those who most urgently advocate that we shut down Guantanamo probably don't agree with our policy anyway," the vice president said after presenting the Gerald R. Ford Foundation journalism awards at the National Press Club.It's ironic that he can say this very thing and then continue to pass out Journalism awards. I can think of so many apt analogies. But right now I'm too busy trying to keep my lunch down.
Now that you've put up with my post, go read this book. Then you'll know what being spitting angry really is like.
posted by Edward Svengali @ Monday, June 13, 2005,
1 Comments:
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At 7:18 PM,
Monk-in-Training said...
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Sadly, I don't think this is insanity, it is deliberate, vicious policy. Uncaring, unChristian, and decidedly anti-American.
Perpetrated by the least Christian administration in generations, if not since the founding of the Republic.
