US to legalise torture of any terror suspect
This is an urgent breaking item that has not been reported in the mainstream press. There will soon be a Bill before the US Congress enabling "... the Secretary of Homeland Security to issue new regulations to exclude from the protection of the U.N. Convention Against Torture and Other Forms of Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, any suspected terrorist - thereby allowing them to be deported or transferred to a country that may engage in torture. The provision would put the burden of proof on the person being deported or rendered to establish "by clear and convincing evidence that he or she would be tortured," would bar the courts from having jurisdiction to review the Secretary's regulations, and would free the Secretary to deport or remove terrorist suspects to any country in the world at will... "
The implications are deeply disturbing and clearly demonstrates that whoever is effectively running the US these days has not learned from recent history nor has heard or cared about the concerns of the people of the US and across the world voicing concern over appalling and uncorrected American behaviour in its "war". This action has the gravest implications, and constitutes one of the worst examples of excessive disregard for human rights the US has ever attempted. Read the details at the republican Obsidian Wings blog. It is worth remembering that in June 2003, GW Bush announced "the United States is committed to the worldwide elimination of torture and we are leading this fight by example" - presumably by demonstrating how to outsource, condone, and conduct extra-judicial abuse and murder of dissident humans as thoroughly as possible. Political pronouncements of virtue in this "war" must surely be worthless currency by now - or perhaps hypocrisy is more esteemed than humanity.
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