it's all a little horrifying
i'm not a political person but i'm shocked by what i've just read in the guardian.
Mr Bush is expected to move within days to sign into law proposals for the treatment and trial before military tribunals of the detainees [at Guantanamo]...legislators voted 51 to 48 on Thursday night to bar Guantanamo detainees from challenging their detention in the US courts. "No court, justice or judge shall have jurisdiction to hear or consider an application for a writ of habeas corpus filed by or on behalf of an alien detained by the United States [who] has been determined ... to have been properly detained as an enemy combatant," the legislation says.
and then i read in the bbc news that...
[The legislation] specifically lays out some banned methods [of interrogation]. They include murder, rape and acts designed to cause "serious" suffering.
However, coercive questioning will not be banned. The president will be able to determine what methods are to be used and his decisions will be published.
but it gets better! i got this little gem from amnesty international. *if you're going to read any link read this one*
[The legislation also includes] Retroactive immunity for those who have been implicated in creating policies or participating in abuse and other acts long believed to be torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment.
what? it's all just too much.
1 comment:
It is really embarrassing. This method of questioning is just Duuubya's way of saying they are going to do what ever they need to do to get information.
In America there is a thing in the law called probable cause, or reasonable suspission, which gives the police freedom to pull you over for any or no reason. And basically treat you any way they want.
This is Bush's intention with these prisoners. These are Gestapo tactics and simply appaling.
RR
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