Secret Prisons, Secret Interrogration Methods--Freedom?
United States President George W. Bush finally admitted that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has been holding people in secret prisons and using secret interrogation methods. This is supposedly a good thing, something to "keep America safe."
I remember being taught about countries that held people in secret prisons and used secret interrogation methods for the "good of the country." But those were bad countries, whereas America is good. Right?
Then why have European lawmakers said that the CIA had secretly flown people to countries where they could face torture? If torture in wrong if done by Americans, why is it OK if America pays somebody else to do it for them? And if they aren't being tortured and the methods being used are appropriate, then why do they have to be kept secret?
Bush said the secrecy is necessary because otherwise terrorists could learn about the methods of interrogation and then could learn how to resist them. Or is the secrecy necessary because Americans could learn about the methods being used and would realize they're unAmerican?
Read the article at http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060906/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_15
Comments
I don't feel they should do that that's not right!
Posted by: Nixie Nurita | September 9, 2006 02:17 AM
That's like saying it's ok to pay a murderer to kill somebody as long as you don't pull the trigger! That is totally not right. If our government has to keep what it's doing with prisoners secret then there's something wrong with what our government's doing!
Posted by: Lorien Loveshade | September 9, 2006 02:55 AM
What's wrong with torturing terrorists? That's the best way to stop them and find out what their terrorist buddies are doing. We should torture them publicly as an example. Then kill them.
Posted by: CatManDue | September 10, 2006 04:02 AM
Catmando how do you know its a terrorist your torturing? What about innocent til proven guilty? Or do we assume everybodys guilty and torture everybody?
Posted by: Gail Harding | September 13, 2006 06:15 PM
Just saw this entry.
What is happening here? Freedom? Privacy? What's that? Thank God Bush and his cronies have lost power and are soon going away.
Posted by: Peeved | January 14, 2007 02:18 AM