USA: Congress rubber stamps torture and other abuses

Puck78

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL
PRESS RELEASE
News Flash

AI Index: AMR 51/157/2006 (Public)
News Service No: 255
29 September 2006

http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGAMR511572006

USA: Congress rubber stamps torture and other abuses

By passing the Military Commissions Act, the United States Congress has, in effect, given its stamp of approval to human rights violations committed by the USA in the “war on terror”. This legislation leaves the USA squarely on the wrong side of international law, and has turned bad executive policy into bad domestic law. Amnesty International will campaign for repeal of this act and fully expects the constitutionality of this legislation to be challenged in the courts.

In the “war on terror”, the US administration has resorted to secret detention, enforced disappearance, prolonged incommunicado detention, indefinite detention without charge, arbitrary detention, and torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment.

Thousands of detainees remain in indefinite military detention in US custody in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantánamo Bay. Congress has failed these detainees and their families. President Bush has defended the CIA’s use of secret detention and in the debates over the Military Commissions Act, members of Congress have done the same. This policy clearly violates international law.

See also:

USA: Rubber stamping violations in the "war on Terror": Congress fails human rights, 29 September 2006
http://web.amnesty.org/library/index/ENGAMR511552006

USA: Military Commissions Act of 2006 – Turning bad policy into bad law, 29 September 2006
http://web.amnesty.org/library/index/ENGAMR511542006

USA: Justice at last or more of the same? Detentions and trials after Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, 18 September 2006
http://web.amnesty.org/library/index/ENGAMR511462006

USA: Rendition – torture – trial? The case of Guantánamo detainee Mohamedou Ould Slahi, 20 September 2006
http://web.amnesty.org/library/index/ENGAMR511492006

RainDog

I love America
Her secret's safe with me
I know her wicked ways
The parts you never see.....

And I miss America
And sometimes she does too
And sometimes I think of her
When she is fucking you



Just a little David Byrne for the morning.

meme

Could we have a voting record on this?

Byrnzie

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In America, The land of the free, they said, And of opportunity, In a just and a truthful way.
But where the president, is never black, female or gay, and until that day,
you've got nothing to say to me, to help me believe

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And a humourless smile, with no warmth within, greets the world.
And I, I have got nothing, to offer you
No-no-no-no-no, just this heart deep and true, which you say you don't need

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outspaced

Byrnzie wrote:

America your head's too big, Because America, Your belly is too big. And I love you, I just wish you'd stay where you is

In America, The land of the free, they said, And of opportunity, In a just and a truthful way.
But where the president, is never black, female or gay, and until that day,
you've got nothing to say to me, to help me believe

In America, it brought you the hamburger. Well America you know where, you can
shove your hamburger. And don't you wonder, why in Estonia they say, Hey you, you big fat pig, you fat pig, you fat pig

Steely blue eyes with no love in them, scam the World,
And a humourless smile, with no warmth within, greets the world.
And I, I have got nothing, to offer you
No-no-no-no-no, just this heart deep and true, which you say you don't need

See with your eyes, touch with your hands, please, hear through your ears, know in your soul, please. For haven't you me with you now? and I love you, I love you, I love you. And I love you, I love you, I love you.

Ah, Morrissey, cuts right to the bone. Genius

meme

I just pulled Sherrod Brown's sign off my front yard.
Thank you Puck

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060929/ap_on_el_ge/terror_politics_1

1970RR

meme wrote:

Could we have a voting record on this?

Senate: http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=109&session=2&vote=00259

House:
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2006/roll491.xml

meme

thank you!