Nuremberg Rising...
Taken from a post on ZNET by Scott Horton of the LA Times
>"This so-called ill treatment and torture in detention centers, stories of which were spread everywhere among the people, and later by the prisoners who were freed ... were not, as some assumed, inflicted methodically, but were excesses committed by individual prison guards, their deputies, and men who laid violent hands on the detainees."
Most people who hear this quote today assume it was uttered by a senior officer of the Bush administration. Instead, it comes from one of history's greatest mass murderers, Rudolf Hoess, the SS commandant at Auschwitz. Such a confusion demonstrates the depth of the United States' moral dilemma in its treatment of detainees in the war on terror.<
I, like most readers, assumed the Statement was from the US Admin. In light of what has been happening, no wonder. With Gonzales on the stage to become Attorney General, this could bring special meaning now.
When I was younger, I watched the movie "Judgement at Nuremberg". Most is sketchy, but we all should at least know this was where the Allies (mainly the Americans and Russians no doubt) put the German SS officers on trial for WAR CRIMES and crimes against humanity... torture, genocide, you name it. It is almost Ironic that one of the administrations that was so heavily against such acts is on the verge of opening the door to such terrible policies yet again.
This taken from MSNBC...
"As the White House’s top lawyer, Gonzales was a prime architect of some of the Bush White House's most controversial legal stands: to deny Geneva Convention protections to prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba; to define “torture” in extremely narrow terms, and to declare U.S. citizens as “enemy combatants” who could be locked up indefinitely without access to lawyers."
We can only hope that guys like this do NOT represent the desire of a nation whose core beliefs are based upon freedom and democracy.
>"This so-called ill treatment and torture in detention centers, stories of which were spread everywhere among the people, and later by the prisoners who were freed ... were not, as some assumed, inflicted methodically, but were excesses committed by individual prison guards, their deputies, and men who laid violent hands on the detainees."
Most people who hear this quote today assume it was uttered by a senior officer of the Bush administration. Instead, it comes from one of history's greatest mass murderers, Rudolf Hoess, the SS commandant at Auschwitz. Such a confusion demonstrates the depth of the United States' moral dilemma in its treatment of detainees in the war on terror.<
I, like most readers, assumed the Statement was from the US Admin. In light of what has been happening, no wonder. With Gonzales on the stage to become Attorney General, this could bring special meaning now.
When I was younger, I watched the movie "Judgement at Nuremberg". Most is sketchy, but we all should at least know this was where the Allies (mainly the Americans and Russians no doubt) put the German SS officers on trial for WAR CRIMES and crimes against humanity... torture, genocide, you name it. It is almost Ironic that one of the administrations that was so heavily against such acts is on the verge of opening the door to such terrible policies yet again.
This taken from MSNBC...
"As the White House’s top lawyer, Gonzales was a prime architect of some of the Bush White House's most controversial legal stands: to deny Geneva Convention protections to prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba; to define “torture” in extremely narrow terms, and to declare U.S. citizens as “enemy combatants” who could be locked up indefinitely without access to lawyers."
We can only hope that guys like this do NOT represent the desire of a nation whose core beliefs are based upon freedom and democracy.
posted by Zaphod at 7:49 AM
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