Bloggers Unite for Haiti

Uniting Voices: The more we unite, the more we express.  The more we express, the more we are heard.  The more we are heard, the more we move.  The more we move, the more we triumph.

Haiti’s Earthquake: Show Your Support

Enhanced (Definitions of) Interrogations (Torture)

“America’s Secret Afghan Prisons”

‘“They didn’t allow us to sleep at all for 13 days and nights.”’
A guard would strike his legs every time he dozed off.”

“The interrogators blindfolded him, taped his mouth shut, and chained him to the ceiling. . . .  Occasionally they unleashed a dog, which repeatedly bit him.  At one point, they removed the blindfold and forced him to kneel on a long wooden bar.  ‘“They tied my hands to a pulley [above] and pushed me back and forth as the bar rolled across my shins.  I screamed and screamed.”’  They then pushed him to the ground and forced him to swallow 12 bottles worth of water.  ‘“Two people held my mouth open and they poured water down my throat until my stomach was full and I became unconscious.  It was as if someone had inflated me.”’ he says.  After he was roused from his torpor, he vomited the water uncontrollably.”

The Torture Convention is unequivocal: “nothing, including a state of war, can be invoked as a justification for torture.”

Reliable Intelligence: Prisoners Boiled Alive

In these radical times, it is true that we have to confront modern challenges with uniquely focused efforts.  However, in doing so, we should not override all learned history and moral progress.  By reacting in manors which reflect upon us as savages without a compass, we move from the “Shining Light” to the “Dark Side” — thus fulfilling our adversaries’ hopes and goals.

Tell the Truth About Torture

CIA Destroys Torture Tapes