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About Torture: America Does Not Do It!
We believe it is up to the people of the world, led by us, the people of the United States of America to demand to go forth with a campaign to shame and disgrace the administrators of torture. We believe this is the right thing to do.
We believe it is right because we can take a stand to make amends for the many times in history where it seemed expedient to allow the perpetrators of the most heinous crimes to not only go free, but continue with their liberty and dignity intact without criticism of their acts; no public fault finding of their behavior as shameful. They were not humiliated, nor made to feel remorse; They were not given any indication how extremely offensive their behavior was to the population of the planet. Their crimes against humanity were totally unacceptable and repulsive.There are several examples of this so called “free-pass” from social/political leaders. The result of turning a blind eye to bad behavior remain with us today in the crimes of the Turks against the Armenians; the crimes of the British Empire, all the nations of Europe against every sovereign nation ever invaded especially in Africa and Asia. There are the crimes of the Americans with their unique form of slavery along with all the countries that pursued slavery, and all those sovereign places that still continue to enslave human beings.
There are few in this world who have the courage to take a stand for what is right. We must do what is right. We must, for the sake of those who gave their lives, stand up to say, “Torture is wrong. America does not do it!” Those who did must be publicly shamed.
We can only think of one instance where a nation was roundly criticized and the perpetrators of horrendous inhumanity were brought to justice by trial with tremendous publicity. The judgment at Nuremberg at the end of World War II is the only time we know of when an entire nation was made to feel shame for the horrific acts of its leaders.
If the same kind of judgment had been rendered by the nations of the world toward the U.S. after its war in the 1860s over slavery, there probably would not be any extended discordant discussion about race in America; there would probably be fewer instances of racist incidents because of the shame associated with slavery’s inhumanity. We’d probably be having our
tenth elected black president. The issue of race would possibly be of minimal concern.
Torture is an inhuman act with its purpose to psychologically humiliate, demean and physically harm the victim. It’s control and power over another human for vicious reasons.
The government of the United States, under the recent Bush administration approved torture. The agents of the United States of America performed torture at the behest of the President of the United States, the Vice President of the United States, the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of State, the head of the CIA, and certain Justice Department officials. Many are called upon, even compelled to be accountable for the pain, suffering and disruption of millions of lives around the world.
We believe the world public should know who they are. We believe they should be publicly reviled for their actions.
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