Comments on: What Happened in Those CIA Black Sites? http://commentsfromleftfield.com/2009/03/what-happened-in-those-cia-black-sites Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:39:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Sai Grafio http://commentsfromleftfield.com/2009/03/what-happened-in-those-cia-black-sites/comment-page-1#comment-50298 Sai Grafio Tue, 17 Mar 2009 19:19:42 +0000 http://commentsfromleftfield.com/?p=8042#comment-50298 Why is the debate about torture which is illegal and not about those who broke the law regading our international covenants. Why is the debate about torture which is illegal and not about those who broke the law regading our international covenants.

]]> By: Sai Grafio http://commentsfromleftfield.com/2009/03/what-happened-in-those-cia-black-sites/comment-page-1#comment-50297 Sai Grafio Tue, 17 Mar 2009 19:17:37 +0000 http://commentsfromleftfield.com/?p=8042#comment-50297 We act like torture is a new phenonomen when torture is applied domestically in the form of police tazers; employing 50, 000 volts is torture in my mind and when the person dies it should be labelled a homicide. In some instances police chases involve hittinghe suspect with the police criuiser. Prods, tasers and stun guns should be outlawed. Police often use "clean beating" that leave no marks by usings phone books, rubber hoses, suspension (including the strappado) Torture has its historical roots in England and in the settling of America in the form of mob lynchings, bagging, bull whipping, drawn and quartered, dunking, tar & feathered, scalping, etc. Torture was employied in S. Africa in the form of necklacing. The problem is why are we having a debate about torture because it is ellegal and why isn't the debate about who broke laws and international covenants regarding torture. We act like torture is a new phenonomen when torture is applied domestically in the form of police tazers; employing 50, 000 volts is torture in my mind and when the person dies it should be labelled a homicide. In some instances police chases involve hittinghe suspect with the police criuiser. Prods, tasers and stun guns should be outlawed. Police often use “clean beating” that leave no marks by usings phone books, rubber hoses, suspension (including the strappado) Torture has its historical roots in England and in the settling of America in the form of mob lynchings, bagging, bull whipping, drawn and quartered, dunking, tar & feathered, scalping, etc. Torture was employied in S. Africa in the form of necklacing. The problem is why are we having a debate about torture because it is ellegal and why isn’t the debate about who broke laws and international covenants regarding torture.

]]> By: Buck Naked Politics http://commentsfromleftfield.com/2009/03/what-happened-in-those-cia-black-sites/comment-page-1#comment-50153 Buck Naked Politics Sun, 15 Mar 2009 15:30:22 +0000 http://commentsfromleftfield.com/?p=8042#comment-50153 <strong>Tales of the Torture Administration: What Happened at the CIA Black Sites?...</strong> by Damozel | In an op-ed at The New York Times, Mark Danner -- author of Torture and Truth: Abu Ghraib and the War on Terror -- reminds us of the day on which George W. Bush "set out before the country America’s dark moral epic of torture, in the co... Tales of the Torture Administration: What Happened at the CIA Black Sites?…

by Damozel | In an op-ed at The New York Times, Mark Danner — author of Torture and Truth: Abu Ghraib and the War on Terror — reminds us of the day on which George W. Bush “set out before the country America’s dark moral epic of torture, in the co…

]]> By: Chief http://commentsfromleftfield.com/2009/03/what-happened-in-those-cia-black-sites/comment-page-1#comment-50152 Chief Sun, 15 Mar 2009 14:46:37 +0000 http://commentsfromleftfield.com/?p=8042#comment-50152 I would change or amend the ending, If we as a nation do not hold legally accountable those who designed, oversaw, and gave legal cover to this reign of terror, it will happen again" To be Or the next time it will be happening to us. I would change or amend the ending,

If we as a nation do not hold legally accountable those who designed, oversaw, and gave legal cover to this reign of terror, it will happen again”

To be

Or the next time it will be happening to us.

]]> By: Kilo http://commentsfromleftfield.com/2009/03/what-happened-in-those-cia-black-sites/comment-page-1#comment-50151 Kilo Sun, 15 Mar 2009 12:07:33 +0000 http://commentsfromleftfield.com/?p=8042#comment-50151 I've already read the source articles here. Why I clicked your blog entry was I misread the title as "what happened TO those black sites" That plus a rewording of your opening line to read "Since the day Obama took office..." might make something worth reading while we wait for the next Obama administration official, senator, etc to make a visit to Gitmo as though it's anything other than the pretty, public shopfront for something much, much larger and completely ignored. I’ve already read the source articles here.
Why I clicked your blog entry was I misread the title as “what happened TO those black sites”

That plus a rewording of your opening line to read “Since the day Obama took office…” might make something worth reading while we wait for the next Obama administration official, senator, etc to make a visit to Gitmo as though it’s anything other than the pretty, public shopfront for something much, much larger and completely ignored.

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