A disconnect on torture
Campaign For Liberty
by Philip Giraldi
06/13/09
Torture has been universally condemned and banned by both Geneva and United Nations Conventions for good reasons. It is also illegal under US law. It is widely recognized that torture is a line that should not be crossed, that it starts out with sleep deprivation and winds up with torn out fingernails and even death. On a practical level, it only is really good at producing confessions, many of which turn out to be false. It debases and turns sadistic those who carry it out and those who order it. It is a black mark on the government that condones it and it opens the door for other countries to engage in the same or similar practices...
https://www.campaignforliberty.com/article.php?view=94
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=torture
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Geneva+Conventions
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Philip+Giraldi
by Philip Giraldi
06/13/09
Torture has been universally condemned and banned by both Geneva and United Nations Conventions for good reasons. It is also illegal under US law. It is widely recognized that torture is a line that should not be crossed, that it starts out with sleep deprivation and winds up with torn out fingernails and even death. On a practical level, it only is really good at producing confessions, many of which turn out to be false. It debases and turns sadistic those who carry it out and those who order it. It is a black mark on the government that condones it and it opens the door for other countries to engage in the same or similar practices...
https://www.campaignforliberty.com/article.php?view=94
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=torture
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Geneva+Conventions
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Philip+Giraldi
rudkla - 15. Jun, 09:50
