Comments on: US passes 'torture' bill http://www.takingaim.co.uk/us-passes-torture-bill/ Sun, 18 Mar 2007 22:33:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Tim Newman http://www.takingaim.co.uk/us-passes-torture-bill/comment-page-1/#comment-1924 Tim Newman Mon, 02 Oct 2006 22:30:27 +0000 http://www.takingaim.co.uk/?p=375#comment-1924 <em>I don’t care what anyone says, or how they justify varying levels of torture. Torture is torture and what the Senate did is a betrayal of our fundamental human values.</em> It's statements like these which cause me the most concern. Torture is not torture if anyone is allowed to define torture in any way they like. I wrote about this at length <a href="http://www.desertsun.co.uk/blog/?p=151" rel="nofollow">here</a>. It is of little surprise that the US policy makers are able to get torture approved when sections of the media have done their best to define mere prisoner discomfort as such. When I hear a prisoner in Gitmo has been tortured, I shrug my shoulders and assume he's had his Koran mishandled. I don’t care what anyone says, or how they justify varying levels of torture. Torture is torture and what the Senate did is a betrayal of our fundamental human values.

It’s statements like these which cause me the most concern. Torture is not torture if anyone is allowed to define torture in any way they like. I wrote about this at length here.

It is of little surprise that the US policy makers are able to get torture approved when sections of the media have done their best to define mere prisoner discomfort as such. When I hear a prisoner in Gitmo has been tortured, I shrug my shoulders and assume he’s had his Koran mishandled.

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