Moral Values Watch:
So now that Our Great Leader is back in the White House, what's new?
Well, after a 70-year absence, torture is back on the menu.
According to the Associated Press, "Statements produced under torture
have been inadmissible in U.S. courts for about 70 years."
But bringing new meaning to the phrase, "stick a fork in me, I'm
done," the Bush administration has now determined that, "U.S. military
panels reviewing the detention of 550 foreigners as enemy combatants
at the U.S. naval base in Cuba are allowed to use such evidence."
Here's the thing though - torture is still technically illegal (I say
"technically" due to the lack of charges brought against those giving
the orders at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo); but evidence obtained from
torture is legal.
So as long as nobody actually catches you putting that brown guy's
nuts in a vice, you can present his confession to the Oklahoma City
bombing, the sinking of the Titanic, and the assassination of Abraham
Lincoln in a court of law.
America: Land of the Freeeeeeeeoooowwww my nipples!
From Democratic Underground
http://www.democraticunderground.com/
Harry
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