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There has been a lot of talk lately about Torture…But the Black online Diaspora has been strangely quiet
You would think that my Pan-African, and Black nationalist friends, would be having a field day….smile
The issue is not whether or not waterboarding is torture. The issue is whether or not…government is above the law
Waterboarding has been illegal under “US Law” for over 100 years and international law for 50 years. Yet Bush and Cheney seemed to think that a few legal memos would outweigh decades of legal precedent. That with the stroke of a pen, they could authorize, what the world has demonized, in the name of national security.
If that wasn’t bad enough…now Cheney, Rumsfield, and others think they can justify their illegal actions by saying….Torture worked, it saved American lives. I hear this all the time..the end justifies the means! Are we a nation of laws. or are our laws only a matter of convenience…to be used or discarded depending on who’s in power.
Cheney even had the nerve to demand that Obama release other secret memos showing actionable results…. Seeing that Bush’s own FBI director said in an interview last year that he wasn’t aware of a “SINGLE” planned terror attack on America that had been foiled by information obtained through torture…the memos Cheney’stalking about might end up like the WMD he claimed existed in Iraq
As Arianna Huffington wrote in the Huffington Post, This is a defining moment for America. The way we respond -- or fail to respond -- to the revelations about the Bush administration's use of torture will delineate -- for ourselves and for the world -- the kind of country we are. Even Shepard Smith of Fox New’s, The Strategy Room, lost it in a table-slamming outburst, declaring; I don’t’ give a rat azz if it works…We are AMERICA! We do not fucking torture!"
If you have any doubt that waterboarding is torture…check out this video from Keith Olberman’s Countdown. (see http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22425001/vp/30377283#30377283) As Olbeman points out, not only was waterboarding, well established as an illegal act, but Bush and Cheney were warned in advance by the FBI, Army, Marines, and Air Force, long before the administration made it legal in 2002
Now people have gone to jail, careers have been ruined, and yet those that orcistrated and implemented the policy are being allowed to go scot free….
What do you think….Are we a nation of laws, or if the President authorizes it…then its not illegal (Richard M. Nixon)
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