No Torture. No Exceptions.
May-23-08 06:45 pm
With a hat tip to
Sandy Levinson over at Balkinization, I note that
Scott Horton is involved with a campaign entitled
"No Torture. No Exceptions." From its
website:
- reaffirming America's commitment to existing federal laws and international treaties that ban torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment under all circumstances.
- renouncing all legal interpretations and executive orders that redefine torture and permit such acts as sensory and sleep deprivation, stress positions, sexual humiliation, and mock executions.
- enforcing full transparency of information about how America treats any and all detainees held by our personnel and those in our employ anywhere in the world.
- rejecting and abolishing the practice of rendering detainees abroad.
- establishing a single standard of interrogation procedures to apply to all persons held in U.S. custody or by those under U.S. control, whether C.I.A., military, or civilian.
- treating our detainees as we would have others treat detained Americans.
The campaign uses
this video, which is taken from the film
"Taxi to the Dark Side." The video is particularly disturbing. Let's hope this campaign has a positive effect on the next U.S. president.
