Posted on 02/03/2007 9:20:42 AM PST by FairOpinion
The US military subjected Australian detainee David Hicks to mental torture by providing him with graphic material showing Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein with a noose around his neck, his lawyers have claimed from Guantanamo Bay. . . .
[Hicks lawyer Josh] Dratel said the display was an attempt to torture mentally an already abused detainee population and breached standards for humane treatment required by the Geneva Convention.
A news report about Saddam Hussein's execution was removed from a recreation area at the Guantanamo Bay detention center after a detainee's lawyer accused officials of using it to frighten prisoners, a U.S. military spokesman said Thursday.
Authorities also removed an Arabic-language poster that depicted Saddam's capture, court appearances and death sentence, said Navy Cmdr. Robert Durand, a Guantanamo Bay spokesman.
The military decided the poster "appeared insensitive" and did not belong in the recreation area, where authorities post information about current events for detainees. . . .
(Excerpt) Read more at opinionjournal.com ...
So...the terrorists know that Saddam was one of their own.
Why don't the pinheads on the left get it?
We've got to stop accomodating these killers. This is ridiculous. If it bothers them somuch, we should put up more of these pictures. Make it so they can't get away from it.
May Jack Bauer stick an ice pick in Hicks' knee and extract the information he is withholding. It's pathetic that only one a TV show can what is necessary be done to save innocent lives and combat terrorism.
the feminization of America continues unabated
Here is McCain's "terrorist protection bill" which passed with overwhelming majority in both the Senate and House on Oct. 5, 2005, for shame.
Note the "degrading treatment" inclusion -- anything could be considered "degrading treatment" evidenced by this latest event of removing the poster to avoid offending the terrorist prisoners. AND note that they gave terrorist prisoners protection of the US Constitution -- how insane is that?!
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SEC. __. UNIFORM STANDARDS FOR THE INTERROGATION OF PERSONS UNDER THE DETENTION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE.
(a) IN GENERAL.--No person in the custody or under the effective control of the Department of Defense or under detention in a Department of Defense facility shall be subject to any treatment or technique of interrogation not authorized by and listed in the United States Army Field Manual on Intelligence Interrogation.
(b) APPLICABILITY.--Subsection (a) shall not apply to with respect to any person in the custody or under the effective control of the Department of Defense pursuant to a criminal law or immigration law of the United States.
(c) CONSTRUCTION.--Nothing in this section shall be construed to affect the rights under the United States Constitution of any person in the custody or under the physical jurisdiction of the United States.
SEC. __. PROHIBITION ON CRUEL, INHUMAN, OR DEGRADING TREATMENT OR PUNISHMENT OF PERSONS UNDER CUSTODY OR CONTROL OF THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT.
(a) In General.--No individual in the custody or under the physical control of the United States Government, regardless of nationality or physical location, shall be subject to cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment.
(b) Construction.--Nothing in this section shall be construed to impose any geographical limitation on the applicability of the prohibition against cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment under this section.
(c) Limitation on Supersedure.--The provisions of this section shall not be superseded, except by a provision of law enacted after the date of the enactment of this Act which specifically repeals, modifies, or supersedes the provisions of this section.
(d) Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment or Punishment Defined.--In this section, the term ``cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment'' means the cruel, unusual, and inhumane treatment or punishment prohibited by the Fifth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, as defined in the United States Reservations, Declarations and Understandings to the United Nations Convention Against Torture and Other Forms of Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment done at New York, December 10, 1984.
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http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=109&session=1&vote=00249
(you need to go to this link of the votes, then from there link to the text, otherwise I can only post a temporary link, which comes out as a dead link)
ping
Past time to denounce and withdraw from the Geneva Convention treaty, change the rules of engagement.
Fight street fighters on their own basis, no holds bared.
Quit going to a gun fight with a knife.
The purpose of going to war is to destroy property and kill people.
...but was perfectly fine in the cafeteria
Seeing pictures of Hillary is torture to me, do I demand newspapers stop printing them?
so i guess a picture of sadaam's last supper munching on a ham and american from subway is out of the question.
Related article:
Global Jihad: Drop The Gloves
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1778618/posts
Denying this unpleasant truth so we can feel nice and tolerant is politically correct suicide.
We need an honest assessment of our enemy. Wishful thinking is not going to win this war.
Jihadists have declared war on America and the West, yet we are reluctant to even identify them with the religion in whose name they kill us. It's time to take off the gloves.
We must declare war on jihad — and all its participants and supporters — before they can make even deeper inroads.
Why should this bother the detainees? After all, Sadaam didn't have anything to do with 9-11 or terorism. /sarcasm
Anything we can do to keep the enemy morale high! We must coddle and protect them from discouragement.
More insanity, I just came across -- now you can't even criticize the law firms who are aiding and abetting the terrorists:
Pentagon official resigns over detainee remark
http://today.reuters.com/News/CrisesArticle.aspx?storyId=N02227439
The Pentagon official who criticized law firms for defending detainees held at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has resigned due to the backlash over his remarks, a Defense Department spokesman said on Friday.
Charles "Cully" Stimson, deputy assistant secretary for detainee affairs, last month called it "shocking" that major U.S. law firms represented Guantanamo detainees for free and said they would likely suffer financially after their corporate clients learned of the work.
"He made the decision based on the current controversy," Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman told reporters. "He believed it hampered his ability to be effective in this position."
Stimson, himself a lawyer, submitted his resignation on Thursday and his last day in the position would be Friday, Whitman said, stressing Defense Secretary Robert Gates did not ask him to resign.
I thought the objective in war was to demoralise and destroy your enemy, not yourselves.
Were it up to me, Durand -- I'd have six foot by four foot pictures of every one of the dead terrorists plastered all around, with the goriest ones in prime locations, and let them know that's what we want to do to them all!
Pantywaist moron!
We lost.
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