[Vision2020] "Harsh" Interrogations -As ye sow, so shall you reep

[keely emerinemix]

Excellent post, Bear.

And now the revelation that Condoleeza Rice verbally OK'd waterboarding of prisoners at Guantanamo . . . my goodness.  It seems that the "Christian" administration of George Bush was founded on ever more creative and inventive ways to stray from the heart of Christ's teachings toward an excercise in thuggishness that virtually every other government in the world has shunned.

My prayer is that "Christians who torture" would someday be seen as astonishingly dissonant and illogical as, well, "Tea Protesters Who Love Keith Olbermann."  

God have mercy.  

Keely
http://keely-prevailingwinds.blogspot.com/




> To: vision2020 at moscow.com
> From: bear at moscow.com
> Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 03:50:18 +0000
> Subject: [Vision2020] "Harsh" Interrogations -As ye sow, so shall you reep
> 
> Well, what we have said is fine, is now coming back to bite us.
> 
>  American-Iranian journalist Roxana Saberi was sentenced  to eight years' jail on Saturday
> after 
> being convicted in a secret trial of spying for the United States. Her Iranian-born
> father, Reza 
> Saberi, says she may have been tricked into a confession, believing she would be released
> if 
> she co-operated with the authorities. He said his daughter was so depressed by her
> sentence - 
> the harshest ever given to a dual national on security charges in Iran - that she is
> threatening 
> to go on hunger strike.
> 
> Will they force feed her like we have force fed the prisoners at Guantánamo Bay Detention 
> Camp when they have gone on hunger strikes? IF they do, what makes us think we have a
> right 
> to object?
> 
> Did they use enhanced interrogation techniques to discover that she was a spy? And
> remember, 
> she was arrested for SPYING. If she was in the United States could we have sued enhanced 
> interrogation techniques?  US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia said on BBC Radio 4
> that 
> since these methods are not intended to punish they do not violate the Eighth Amendment to
> 
> the United States Constitution, barring "cruel and unusual punishment", and as such may
> not 
> be unconstitutional.
> 
> Well, we started this dog fight, now we pay. How do we get back on the moral high ground 
> where this kind of behavior from ANY GOVERNMENT is wrong? I believe it starts with the 
> indictment and arrest of George W. Bush et al. Or don't they think they'd get a fair
> trial? They 
> sure as hell would get better treatment awaiting trial than they gave!
> 
> 
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