Jesus, can't I even down my first cuppa before my government decides to embrace some new abomination?
Washington -- The Pentagon has decided to omit from new detainee policies a key tenet of the Geneva Convention that bans "humiliating and degrading treatment," according to military officials, a step that would mark a potentially permanent shift away from strict adherence to international human rights standards.
So I guess it's gone from
overt to
IN YOUR FACE. All this government is doing is moving the line on how it defines
torture, so it can then argue that it's not committing torture, 'cause, hey,
this is what we mean when we use the word.
Imprisonment without charge, indefinite imprisonment, torture, the slaughter of civilian citizens of the country we're occupying (I know we're occupying two - just havent heard of us slaughtering Afghans yet), secret torture prisons ...
President Bush's critics and supporters have debated whether it is possible to prove a direct link between administration declarations that it will not be bound by Geneva and events such as the abuses at Abu Ghraib or the killings of civilians last year at Haditha, Iraq, allegedly by U.S. Marines. But the exclusion of the Geneva provisions may make it more difficult for the administration to portray such incidents as aberrations.
Nothing like the smell of bullshit in the morning.
Anyone else humiliated to be associated with this?