29-02-2012, 07:40 PM
Marcia Coyle of the National Law Journal was on PBS discussing a difficult decision on how to treat international cases of torture. She used the case of a man suing Palestinian authorities over torture as precedent in determining how to deal with such cases. She then went on to say that a difficult examination of international law would be required in order to determine how it should be handled. Never once did Ms Coyle ever mention the nearest and most obvious precedent for this case, that is the US's torture offenses committed under the Bush regime. If she had acknowledged it she would have found out that the US's approach was to tell the victims "tough".
Here you have the evil of the American Government coming full circle. What you have here is a government guilty of rogue torture crimes coming up for air and presenting itself as clean and valid. Grossly hypocritical American torture is OK and unmentionable. It's only the torture offenses of the Palestinians that need our refined attention.
Here you have the evil of the American Government coming full circle. What you have here is a government guilty of rogue torture crimes coming up for air and presenting itself as clean and valid. Grossly hypocritical American torture is OK and unmentionable. It's only the torture offenses of the Palestinians that need our refined attention.