Friday, April 17, 2009
Sick To My Stomach, I Have A Duty To Report On the Torture of Children
As I wrote almost a year ago, the United States has apparently been torturing children.
Thinking about this, let alone writing about it, makes me sick to my stomach. But it is my moral duty to help expose this monstrous truth so that it is less likely to happen again.
Since I wrote the essay, respected political scientist Michael Haas has confirmed that children were tortured, and Raw Story has explained that the newly-release Bush torture memos may corroborate claims that at least some detainees' children were tortured using insects.
The number two man at the State Department, Colonel Lawrence B. Wilkerson, said that many of those tortured at Guantanamo Bay were innocent, but that the Bush administration did not really care whether they were innocent or not.
But children are - by definition - innocent.
Torturing children is not only a war crime, it is a crime against humanity and the most barbaric action of all.
And the torture was not the act of a couple of "bad apples", but was approved by Bush's top advisors. It was, in other words, a policy of monstrous wrongdoing.
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I hope you are not surprised about this! US troops tortured children (waterboarding, rape, and who knows what else) in Vietnam.
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dboy
Great Article George!! I sent to my email list along with this message "As animals we can easily get conditioned or socialized to accept awful conditions, but as humans we need to fight against this tendency and never allow war or torture to become acceptable aspects of our everyday lives."
ReplyDeleteThanks for this post and for inspiring a higher perspective to your readers. Peace bro.
Are you kidding me. The article is totally unsubstantiated. It is irresponsible of you to take it as proof. Very lame. Read it carefully.
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ReplyDeleteObama bans prosecuting the torture of children.
Animals are innocent too, but people still kill and eat them.
ReplyDeleteGo away Greg repug troll.
ReplyDeleteLittle late to the party, but...
ReplyDeleteyou consider having ants crawl on your legs torture? So by that definition, going to a picnic is torture.
Oh right. Restrained children forced into a dark box with ants crawling over them is just like being at a picnic.
ReplyDelete"you consider having ants crawl on your legs torture? So by that definition, going to a picnic is torture."
ReplyDeleteA-holes like you should be locked in boxes with fire ants until you admit its torture. And if you don't agree, then why not keep your miserable worthless excuse for a human being locked up
Torture is wrong. Figure it out.
torturing children in front of fathers and mothers works great. See Dr. Afia who was kidnapped from Pakistan with her three kids. Two of the kids are missing while she has gone mad. At Bagram she would scream through the night and the other prisoners heard it.
ReplyDeleteThe missing children are Maryum who was 4 and Suleman, who was only 6 months when kidnapped. The children were tortured in front of their of Dr. Aafia (their mother). Consequently Dr. Aafia went mad seeing her children tortured in front of her.
http://www.draafia. org/2009/ 05/14/update- on-dr-aafiabroth er-speaks- at-civil- rights-event/
the correct link to Dr Aafia and her tortured children is
ReplyDeletehttp://www.draafia.org/2009/05/14/update-on-dr-aafiabrother-speaks-at-civil-rights-event/
http://www.robertreckmeyer.com/index.html
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