Larissa
11th March 2003, 15:01
I'm sharing this from another forum...
Pat Buchanan has just published a column entitled, "The Case for Torture." He writes: "Can torture - the infliction of intolerable, even excruciating, pain to extract information from war criminals - ever be justified? [...]
Thus, the question: Would it be moral to inflict pain on this beast [Khalid Sheikh Mohammed] to force him to reveal what he knows? Positive law prohibits it.
However, the higher law, the moral law, the Natural Law
permits it in extraordinary circumstances such as these [...] Would it be moral to inflict pain on this beast to force him to reveal what he knows? Positive law prohibits it. However, the higher law, the moral law, the
Natural Law permits it in extraordinary circumstances such as these [...] Is the deliberate infliction of pain always immoral? Of course not. Twisting another kid's arm to make him tell where he hid your stolen bicycle is not wrong. Parents spank children to punish them and drive home the lessons of living good lives."
Jonathan Turley, law professor at George Washington University, asked "What is the USA turning into?" in an article published in Commentary a couple of days ago. To the amazement of the international community, the U.S. government has openly admitted that it is now using "stress and duress techniques" such as beating suspects before turning them over for exposure to other techniques, including keeping them awake for days, forcing them to stand or kneel for long periods in painful positions, and using bright lights and loud noises to reduce them to blithering idiots through sleep deprivation. According to Jonathan Turley, the New York Times, and unnamed U.S. government officials, the U.S. authorities have also transferred suspects to countries that the U.S. has previously denounced for grotesque
violations of human rights. Suspects are simply shipped to Pakistan, Saudi Arabia or Morocco with a list of questions for more crude torture techniques.
Article 17 of the Geneva Conventions states that "no physical or mental torture, nor any other form of coercion, may be inflicted on prisoners of war to secure from them information of any kind whatsoever."
A couple of days ago, the New York Times published long report on torture:
www.nytimes.com/2003/03/09/international/09DETA.html
Evidence of the worst types of torture exists but has not been published.
Paul
Pat Buchanan has just published a column entitled, "The Case for Torture." He writes: "Can torture - the infliction of intolerable, even excruciating, pain to extract information from war criminals - ever be justified? [...]
Thus, the question: Would it be moral to inflict pain on this beast [Khalid Sheikh Mohammed] to force him to reveal what he knows? Positive law prohibits it.
However, the higher law, the moral law, the Natural Law
permits it in extraordinary circumstances such as these [...] Would it be moral to inflict pain on this beast to force him to reveal what he knows? Positive law prohibits it. However, the higher law, the moral law, the
Natural Law permits it in extraordinary circumstances such as these [...] Is the deliberate infliction of pain always immoral? Of course not. Twisting another kid's arm to make him tell where he hid your stolen bicycle is not wrong. Parents spank children to punish them and drive home the lessons of living good lives."
Jonathan Turley, law professor at George Washington University, asked "What is the USA turning into?" in an article published in Commentary a couple of days ago. To the amazement of the international community, the U.S. government has openly admitted that it is now using "stress and duress techniques" such as beating suspects before turning them over for exposure to other techniques, including keeping them awake for days, forcing them to stand or kneel for long periods in painful positions, and using bright lights and loud noises to reduce them to blithering idiots through sleep deprivation. According to Jonathan Turley, the New York Times, and unnamed U.S. government officials, the U.S. authorities have also transferred suspects to countries that the U.S. has previously denounced for grotesque
violations of human rights. Suspects are simply shipped to Pakistan, Saudi Arabia or Morocco with a list of questions for more crude torture techniques.
Article 17 of the Geneva Conventions states that "no physical or mental torture, nor any other form of coercion, may be inflicted on prisoners of war to secure from them information of any kind whatsoever."
A couple of days ago, the New York Times published long report on torture:
www.nytimes.com/2003/03/09/international/09DETA.html
Evidence of the worst types of torture exists but has not been published.
Paul