Leader of Minnesota "Center for Victims of Torture" says it applies to US

[Eric J in MN]

Leader of Minnesota "Center for Victims of Torture" says it applies to US treatment of people in Iraq.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20040530/ts_alt_afp/us_iraq_prison_torture&cid=1506&ncid=1480

A Tortorous Path Around the "t" Word


In a fiery speech this week attacking the current administration, Gore spoke of the creation of an "American gulag ... with naked prisoners to be "stressed" and even -- we must use the word -- tortured."

A 1994 law makes torture committed by Americans outside the United States a crime. The law defines torture as the infliction of severe physical or mental pain or suffering.

The Minnesota-based Center for Victims of Torture finds the semantic arguments surrounding the abuse in Abu Ghraib both diversionary and morally bankrupt.

"Mistreatment, abuse, prison scandal. Let's be perfectly clear," said the center's executive director, Douglas Johnson. "The images and descriptions we see and hear coming out of Iraq (news - web sites) are torture. Defining the acts as anything less than that is wrong."

[peacetalksforall]

1. Hazing and humiliation

Hazing - a voluntary endeavor for social or monetary reward.
Humiliation - reduce position in one's own eyes or anothers.

So that's what hard cover American Supremists think.

Irrelevant. Another case of irrelevancy.

The joke is on them. They think America is so supreme - well it is -
America = North America, South America, Central America, Caribbean, and the Bahamas. Yes, America is supreme in the Western Hemisphere!

[Alerter_]

2. kick

interesting story

[banana republican]

3. The courts have long held

that the common definition of words are to be used. Websters Dictionary Rules ( except when Blacks Legal Dictionary Rules).


If it meets the criteria of Websters it is the rule...

screw the "spin".

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