The Red Cross Torture Report: What it Means
By Mark Danner
For many in the United States, torture still stands as a marker of political commitment-of a willingness to "do anything to protect the American people," a manly readiness to know when to abstain from "coddling terrorists" and do what needs to be done. Torture's powerful symbolic role, like many ugly, shameful facts, is left unacknowledged and undiscussed. But that doesn't make it any less real. On the contrary.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22398.htm
We Must Confront the Torturers who Acted in Our Name
By Robyn Blumner
Let's see, a U.S. court successfully convicted the son of the brutal former president of Liberia, Charles Taylor, of torturing his father's political opponents. But we're going to leave it to a Spanish judge to go after our own Torquemadas?
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22405.htm
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Red+Cross
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=torture
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Mark+Danner
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Robyn+Blumner
For many in the United States, torture still stands as a marker of political commitment-of a willingness to "do anything to protect the American people," a manly readiness to know when to abstain from "coddling terrorists" and do what needs to be done. Torture's powerful symbolic role, like many ugly, shameful facts, is left unacknowledged and undiscussed. But that doesn't make it any less real. On the contrary.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22398.htm
We Must Confront the Torturers who Acted in Our Name
By Robyn Blumner
Let's see, a U.S. court successfully convicted the son of the brutal former president of Liberia, Charles Taylor, of torturing his father's political opponents. But we're going to leave it to a Spanish judge to go after our own Torquemadas?
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22405.htm
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Red+Cross
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=torture
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Mark+Danner
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Robyn+Blumner
rudkla - 13. Apr, 22:31
