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Death Penalty
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do you actually support what they did in abughraib?
I have no support for their behaviour it was completely uncalled for but not all torture is as such. Putting a person in prison in the first plac... |
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GovernmentBush Presidency a Budding Criminal Dictatorship?
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Congress gives Bush the right to torture and detain people forever (Torture Bill Gives Bush Retroactive War Crimes Immunity)
House approves warrantless wiretap law
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SocietyIs America playing with fire ?
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John Yoo Argues Pres. George Bush Has Legal Power to Torture Children
On December 1, 2005, John Yoo, an architect of U.S. legal policy on torture, publicly claimed that George Bush has the authorit... |
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Right or wrong....
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murder is always "wrong," those other things that are being spoken about are simply justifications for doing the "wrong" thing.
you cant say "murder is right" under a... |
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SocietyIs America playing with fire ?
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Jury anger over threat of torture
Guardian told plan to deport ricin plot accused ignores court verdict
"If anyone has grounds for asylum in this country, it is these men," said on... |
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War & TerrorismAbu Ghraib
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I don't like to look at the pictures. But we can't pretend it didn't happen. This is a true story - When I was in the Navy, us senior enlisted were always questioned "why would you... |
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War & TerrorismWAR CRIMES
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Its prett much clear now that Rumsfeld was responsible for "relaxing" the rules on detainment and interrogation. Of course he may not have intended to have torture occur.
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Death Penalty
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Define torture. Cruel and unusual is not limited to torture there are lots of other unseal or cruel methods of punishing people. If a punishment is not cruel then it has no purpose and if it is not un... |
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Death Penalty
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Torture: the infliction of severe physical or psychological pain as an expression of cruelty, a means of intimidation, deterrent or punishment, or as a tool for the extraction of information or confes... |
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War & TerrorismThe Worst War Ever Is The One You Are In
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In war, torture happens, it always has - the historian only dare whisper it. But this is far worse, this is torture sanctioned by our own government? How outrageous is that?
But then, this is a war... |
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Death Penalty
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Punishment must be cruel and unusual so as to make it so repulsive that people do not want to be in that situation.
Torture is cruel and unusual, but I think you and I would agree that torture is w... |
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Death Penalty
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Spanking a child in public is considered cruel and unusual because it causes the child to be humiliated. What is wrong with a little humiliation after commit an offence?
Have you forgotten what act... |
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SocietyWhy Do They Hate Us
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No one has mentioned the torture. Unfortunately, the media did cover that, I remember reading about it in Newsweek and Time (before the elections). It's still going on. Suspects are being arreste... |
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War & TerrorismExcerp: Truth of War
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Iraqi Victim Says U.S. Torture Worse Than Saddam
....who was sent to Abu Ghraib accused of car theft
(car theft = terrorism?)
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War & TerrorismExcerp: Truth of War
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Torture widespread under U.S. custody: Amnesty
Richard Waddington / Reuters | May 3 2006
Torture and inhumane treatment are "widespread" in U.S.-run detention centers in Afghanistan,... |
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Society & SociologyIs Jail a mild form of torture
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Obviously jail is supposed to be unpleasant. With that in mind is jail a mild form of torture? |
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SocietyIs America playing with fire ?
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Amnesty accuses US over 'torture'
The US is accused of damaging human rights across the world
Governments around the world betrayed their commitment to human rights in 2004, Amnesty I... |
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War & TerrorismExcerp: Truth of War
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West turns blind eye as police put Saddam's torturers back to work
From James Hider in Baghdad
IRAQI security forces, set up by American and British troops, torture detainees by pu... |
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SocietyWhy Do They Hate Us
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People WERE being tortured in Iraq, maybe you missed it, we torture people, in Iraq and elsewhere, even transporting people to countries w... |
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Emotions & Feelingswhat are you afraid of
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Torture and mutilation. |
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BooksThis Book Will Change Your Life
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Day 34 - today write a dictator about stopping torture. |
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Kids these days!
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sorceress i was not saying that people should turn a blind eye to all of the bad things that happen. what i was saying is, on the radio the tv the internet all of them love to tell about how a coach l... |
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War & TerrorismSupport the Troops
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Support our Military ----
A tricky way to call for support Bush's war policy. Wherever he put the US troop there, you can't touch his policy. Otherwise it is "not support our troops&... |
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GovernmentThe Anti-Bush Thread
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Eric Haney, a retired command sergeant major of the U.S. Army, was a founding member of Delta Force, the military's elite covert counter-terrorist unit has fighting words for Bush.
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Death Penalty
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Putting a person in prison in the first place is a form of psychological torture would you like to see this practice stopped?
No, of course not. I would like to see the death penalty stopped, but... |
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