You Can Do Anything with a Bayonet Except Sit on It
Mark Danner states that torture is a very direct route from human rights, which is to say, restricted power, to unleashed power. We see a movement here backwards from ideals that were at the root of this country's founding during the enlightenment: the restriction of government power and the conviction that human beings had certain inherent rights, one of which was the freedom from cruel and inhuman treatment.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/022706O.shtml
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/022706O.shtml
rudkla - 27. Feb, 22:26
