WTF?Of course there should be prosecutions for this. The US constitution prohibits torture. Government officials who authorized it and carried it out should pay for their crime. And it's a war crime. If there are not punishments for breaking the law, why bother having it?
WTF?
The constitution does not outlaw enhanced interrogation techniques.
Yes your post displays such.The idiocy of the semantic difference
Explain how enhanced interrogation was used as punishment which the Eighth Amendment was addressing?explain how, in light of the report, the methods of the CIA are not cruel and unusual?
Explain how enhanced interrogation was used as punishment which the Eighth Amendment was addressing?
That has already been disputed as false claim and it certainly wasn't what I addressed. So stop deflecting.Because it didn't yield useful information. It wasn't coercive, only punitive.
:naughtyBut are you really suggesting that torture is acceptable when used that way? If it must be punitive, then isn't it permissible to torture you in order to get you to confess to a crime?
That has already been disputed as false claim and it certainly wasn't what I addressed. So stop deflecting.
And your attempt to ignore intent is absurd.
It wasn't used as punishment which is what the Eighth Amendment addresses.
I am pointing out your Constitutional argument was unsound because it was not being used as punishment.
There are no lies there.Okay, so you're just going to lie. This part of the discussion is done.
You try to keep up.Try to keep up. If torture is only impermissible if it is used purely for punishment, then why isn't alright to torture you for coercive purposes?
Funny how the we treat the UN- we used a UN resolution as a pretext to invade Iraq and now that they are criticizing us we demand its dismantlement.The UN, as it is, needs to be disbanded.
Of course there should be prosecutions for this. The US constitution prohibits torture. Government officials who authorized it and carried it out should pay for their crime. And it's a war crime. If there are not punishments for breaking the law, why bother having it?
[Due to] the fact that the US has said, straight up, if any of it's people go the Hague, we will invade the Netherlands. U.S.: 'Hague Invasion Act' Becomes Law | Human Rights Watch Dutch still wincing at Bush-era 'Invasion of The Hague Act' - CSMonitor.com On 'The Hague Invasion Act'
Of course there should be prosecutions for this. The US constitution prohibits torture. Government officials who authorized it and carried it out should pay for their crime. And it's a war crime. If there are not punishments for breaking the law, why bother having it?
If it can be shown that US officials authorized and carried out a program of torture then we need to prosecute them. Emphasis on the word "WE". As in US courts, US judicial system.
When the UN stops promoting human rights abusers to lead its condemnation bodies then they may have a shred of credibility.The UN won't be able to really do anything to American officials, but the announcement is important nonetheless. It means there's a record somewhere that the wrong has been acknowledged and that someone should pay for it, even if only in spirit.
Our country has really lost its way, and it gets worse and worse all the time.
Even democrats who participated? :roll:Of course there should be prosecutions for this. The US constitution prohibits torture. Government officials who authorized it and carried it out should pay for their crime. And it's a war crime. If there are not punishments for breaking the law, why bother having it?
Of course there should be prosecutions for this. The US constitution prohibits torture. Government officials who authorized it and carried it out should pay for their crime. And it's a war crime. If there are not punishments for breaking the law, why bother having it?
UN Officials Demand Prosecutions for US Torture
If it can be shown that US officials authorized and carried out a program of torture then we need to prosecute them. Emphasis on the word "WE". As in US courts, US judicial system.
"UN officials" can shampoo my crotch. If it weren't for double standards these people would have no standards at all.
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