Posted on 09/17/2006 6:52:51 PM PDT by blam
Goldsmith warns US on detainees
By Joshua Rozenberg, Legal Editor
(Filed: 18/09/2006)
Terrorist suspects detained at Guantanamo Bay should not be subject to humiliating and degrading treatment, the Attorney General, Lord Goldsmith, warned the US government at the weekend.
Speaking in Chicago, Lord Goldsmith told the Bush administration that it should not try to water down the standards in Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions.
This provision, he said, "prohibits outrages upon personal dignity, in particular humiliating and degrading treatment" of those detained in combat. It was "an international standard of very considerable importance and its content must be the same for all nations", he stressed.
In a speech that received a standing ovation from members of the American Bar Association and the International Bar Association, Lord Goldsmith acknowledged that he was interfering in a "live, and sensitive, domestic political debate".
But he said it was not purely domestic. "The detainees to whom these procedures apply are non-US citizens and are detained outside the US."
His remarks came after a speech this month by President George W Bush justifying the use of "tough" interrogation methods against a suspected terrorist leader. On Sept 6, the president disclosed that the CIA had used an "alternative set of procedures" to interrogate Abu Zubaydah, believed to have been a trusted associate of Osama bin Laden. He stressed that the US did not use torture.
The president also dismissed the requirement in Article 3 that there must be no outrages upon personal dignity as "very vague" and "wide open to interpretation". He called on Congress to support legislation that would provide "clarity" for US interrogators.
Lord Goldsmith's insistence that the standards of Article 3 must be the same for all nations is seen as a warning that the US should not dilute those standards by passing domestic legislation that permits humiliating and degrading treatment.
Funny, I thought the Geneva convention called for a quick and humane execution of enemy combatants not in uniform.
"Lord Goldsmith's insistence that the standards of Article 3 must be the same for all nations is seen as a warning that the US should not dilute those standards by passing domestic legislation that permits humiliating and degrading treatment."
Or else what, "m'lord"? The Mohammedans might mutilate our captured soldiers?
Goldsmith, your country is drowning in Islamic fascists, and what have you done to help? Your desperation for moral courage is nauseating. Just watch our President Bush and learn.
Rest assured that,if he can,President Bush will replace one or perhaps even two to those court members...and will continue to ignore that peanut farmer.
And while I have your ear....why don't you lose that title "Lord" you pompous,toffe-nosed,malodorous twit?
So, Lord Goldsmith, with which signatory nation are we not honoring the Geneva Conventions?
Sod off.
Regards,
L
****"an international standard of very considerable importance and its content must be the same for all nations", he stressed. ***
An international standard that no Muslim country abides by. Is that really International?
The Muslims took our soldiers and cut their herts out, they cut off their balls , the beheaded them and dumped them in the desert. DOES THIS TURD know that???
Now he wants us to kisse their ass and tuck them into their iddy Biddy beds. Wake up Lord Dummy you have been asleep somewhere and not paying attention. Just likke those RINO idiots, led by McPain the fool manchurian candidate.
That's going to include scalping, flaying by removing 1 inch wide skin strips from sensitive areas, and amputation of digits and other appendages while the subject of the interrogation is slowly roasted over an open fire.
Suitible breaks will be taken from time to time and the subject will be fed.
More cooperative prisoners will be limited to no more than 1 trip through the gauntlet every other day.
After all, we are not without sympathy for the feelings of the enemy.
Well, its humane, but I doubt that milord would agree.
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Get a life.
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