I was never a fan of Bush II and his malicious sidekick Cheney, and even less so of their misadventures in Afghanistan and Iraq. Yesterday's revelations of CIA Torture are crimes. These people abused prisoners in ways that all Western powers should be horrified by, and they knew damn good and well what they were doing.
When we first starting hearing rumours of an "extraordinary rendition" program, and the wrongdoings at Abu Ghraib, I figured that there was something much, much worse going on. Sure enough, that's what was happening.
Round up the lot of these rotten bastards and hang them out to dry. Ship them off to the World Court in The Hague and lock in a cell while prosecutors put together a case against them. These are crimes the magnitude of which cannot be ignored.
Canadians need to remind Stephen Harper that torture is wrong. Not only will it produce exactly zero useful information, it is morally and ethically wrong. For Canada to even implicitly endorse the use of torture by accepting "information gathered" through those means goes against the values of Canada as a whole. We are better than that.
It is a shame that Harper isn't.
When we first starting hearing rumours of an "extraordinary rendition" program, and the wrongdoings at Abu Ghraib, I figured that there was something much, much worse going on. Sure enough, that's what was happening.
Round up the lot of these rotten bastards and hang them out to dry. Ship them off to the World Court in The Hague and lock in a cell while prosecutors put together a case against them. These are crimes the magnitude of which cannot be ignored.
Canadians need to remind Stephen Harper that torture is wrong. Not only will it produce exactly zero useful information, it is morally and ethically wrong. For Canada to even implicitly endorse the use of torture by accepting "information gathered" through those means goes against the values of Canada as a whole. We are better than that.
It is a shame that Harper isn't.
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