If you believe that statement then please, read no further because you’re likely going to disagree with everything I’m about to say.
I don’t care who you are, what crime you committed, or how much of an enemy to the state you are, NO ONE, deserves to be water-boarded, under any circumstance, EVER.
I was alive when 9/11 happened and as an American I understand the rage that was experienced following those horrific events. The terrorists took the low ground, but we need to take the high ground.
It is morally wrong to torture. I can’t stress that enough. Even if terrorists by definition violate the rules of warfare, that does not exempt them from the due process of law afforded to other criminals. Criminals break the law too, so using that logic they shouldn’t be granted the rights of law abiding citizens. If that were the case, might as well knock off the “A” and add another “S” and and “R” and the USA becomes the USSR in terms of its justice system. If someone has the audacity to kill on a massive scale, whether a serial killer or terrorist, where is the differentiation between who can get tortured and who doesn’t?
Dennis Rader, the BTK (Bind, Torture, and Kill) serial killer of Wichita, Kansas wrecked havoc on the community over a span of 30 years, and yet, despite torturing his victims before killing them, he was fairly put on trial and will never see the light of day again - ever!
If you put any of the terrorists we have in custody on trial, the same conclusion could be reached and a life in solitude and confinement would be the more “just” and humane way of dealing with them, no matter how horrendous of an act they have taken. Plus, you’ve obeyed all the laws and don’t have to deal with that sticky residue that sticks to everything that we like to call torture.
This is not the America we need to be, and I would, just as Sean Hannity suggested a few weeks ago, willingly be waterboarded or would waterboard anyone who thinks this is a “just” form of justice. Of course this would all be to prove a point, and it would be done under the proper medical observation. I hate to take an extreme view on this, but honestly I can’t stand by the wayside anymore. This is an issue that needs to be addressed, and addressed now as a cultural issue and as a mindset. I think President Obama is on the right track in eliminating waterboarding as an “enhanced interrogation technique” and it needs to stay that way. America has an obligation to be a role model for the whole world on how to deal with these issues.
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It has been 63 days since Ashton Lundeby was taken into custody by federal authorities and he has not seen any justice.
Free Ashton Lundeby!
I have also created a Facebook group for this cause that can be found here. There is another group as well on Facebook, which I only discovered after creating mine, so if join theirs, that’s fine. Just join a group and write to your representatives on this issue!