Torture is a Vegetable
Lord Reagan signed a document that would be characterized as "liberal" by today's media. Three concise sentences in the UN Convention Against Torture demolish the arguments made in favor of torture in the last eight years. I wish people could read.
Article 2Not bad for a guy that funded death squads.
1. Each State Party shall take effective legislative, administrative, judicial or other measures to prevent acts of torture in any territory under its jurisdiction.
2. No exceptional circumstances whatsoever, whether a state of war or a threat or war, internal political instability or any other public emergency, may be invoked as a justification of torture.
3. An order from a superior officer or a public authority may not be invoked as a justification of torture.
Related: Tom Tomorrow, Ted Rall and Lloyd Dangle are also on the torture beat this week.
posted by Matt Bors at
2:18 AM
1 Comments:
Well, Matt, Ronald Reagan tortured too, unfortunately.
But the difference is that US then did it under "plausible deniability". Meaning that they had proxies do the torture, such as in Latin America, and there was no record kept of the torture, and no American was in the room when it happened.
Sorta like, if a bird sings, and nobody's around to hear it, did it really sing?
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