Response to Torture

20/04/2009 10:34:10

This is a response to the New America Foundation
clip with Jane Mayer the author of "The Hidden Power"
being interviewed about the Bush Whitehouse after 9/11.

There will be more instances where human rights
are going to be violated. Our leaders will tell us that
it is in our best interest to torture others in the name
of security. They will tell us that in order to protect
us they need wider powers and immunity for the actions
that they will need to take in the name of patriotism.

Torture is wrong. Information gathered through
its use is largely unreliable. Get the terrorists, get
the criminals, but don't give me a "no accountability"
provision when we are talking about human rights.

Our basic rights as human beings are the most
important things to safeguard and yet the most easily
ignored in the pursuit of security as if the two are
separate and disjointed. For those who push fear and
paranoia, I dare ask, who will protect me from the
excesses of power if the first thing they're going to
ask me to give up is my rights.

Mr. Dick Cheynee is wrong for saying that
America is made weaker and vulnerable when Mr. Barack
Obama made public disclosures of the so called torture
memos. The policy of ignoring the Geneva Conventions
made America more vulnerable. By surrendering american
democratic values Mr. Cheynee gave up the most potent
weapon in america's arsenal-the moral high road.

I believe that america will choose it if
completely informed. I trust America will take this
road, if for nothing else, because they love the truth.
I believe that america can take it and will be stronger
because of it.

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