UN SPEAKS OUT AGAINST USA WAR PRISONS

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GENEVA, May 19 — A United Nations panel on torture called on the United States today to close the detention center at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba and expressed concern over reports of secret detention centers and of a practice of sending terror suspects to countries with poor human rights records. END QUOTE

What's the problem? The problem is we were once noted for having human rights and encouraging them around the world. Now we have despoiled ourselves and our reputations and are turning into the very style of repressive government that we once use to condemn.

We torture people in our prisons. We've killed some of them in jail. We also sexually assault people in our prisons.
We refuse to release the names of people in our prisons. We refuse to even file official charges against them. We hold them for years with out any hope of trial or release.

The two people we have in jail who were actually involved in 9/11 (rather than that idiot Moussaoui) have apparently been so "messed over with" and tortured that our government is afraid of ever putting them on a witness stand or having them appear in court.

The problem? Well, besides the emotional and moral issues that some may feel, one of the problems is that now all this can be done to us, to our troops, to our citizens with the rationale that we'd just be getting a taste of our own medicine.

We are, therefore, no better than those we claim to be 'savages.'

We are also alienating nations that use to support us. We are following a doomed and destructive strategies, we are practicing bad tactics and procedures. We are now showing ourselves as bad as those we call "terrorist.'

And if you don't believe this, it makes no difference: the rest of the world believes it.

It is easier for them to see the truth and reality, when not pumped up everyday with our Fox News propaganda and constant barrage of hate and fear messages that pour out from the mainstream right-wing dominate media.