Some things your government ignores or violates in our names
gimmesometruth27
St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 23,303
or selectively enforces when it suits their needs...
feel free to add your own to the list. let's make this fun, and make just a big long list of grievances that we as citizens and human beings are tired of being done in our name. i will start it...
"no exceptional circumstances whatsoever, whether a state of war or a threat of war, internal political instability or any other public emergency, may be invoked as a justification of torture."
part 1, article 2, section 2, Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment. RATIFIED BY THE U.S. IN 1994....
"Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted."
Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
"Persons taking no active part in the hostilities, including members of armed forces who have laid down their arms and those placed hors de combat by sickness, wounds, detention, or any other cause, shall in all circumstances be treated humanely. To this end the following acts are and shall remain prohibited at any time and in any place.....outrages upon personal dignity, in particular humiliating and degrading treatment..."
Part 1, Article 3, section 1, Geneva Convention(III)
RATIFIED BY THE US IN 1955
feel free to add your own to the list. let's make this fun, and make just a big long list of grievances that we as citizens and human beings are tired of being done in our name. i will start it...
"no exceptional circumstances whatsoever, whether a state of war or a threat of war, internal political instability or any other public emergency, may be invoked as a justification of torture."
part 1, article 2, section 2, Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment. RATIFIED BY THE U.S. IN 1994....
"Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted."
Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
"Persons taking no active part in the hostilities, including members of armed forces who have laid down their arms and those placed hors de combat by sickness, wounds, detention, or any other cause, shall in all circumstances be treated humanely. To this end the following acts are and shall remain prohibited at any time and in any place.....outrages upon personal dignity, in particular humiliating and degrading treatment..."
Part 1, Article 3, section 1, Geneva Convention(III)
RATIFIED BY THE US IN 1955
"You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry." - Lincoln
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
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