This is the first time I’ve done a second post on a given day, but the occasion warrants it. A bipartisan report from the Senate Armed Services Committee has made a strong case for bringing criminal charges against Administration officials for their decisions that led to the U.S. torture of prisoners, including at Abu Ghraib. Details here.
I want those criminal charges to happen. Not just people who are tortured but everyone in their orbit are dehumanized by torture and the fear it instills. Torture is the worst form of terrorism, and the fact that our current Administration deliberately sanctioned it again and again is the shame of our nation. We need to bring it to justice, promptly.
I never want the well-being and joy I have in my life, that I express in words like the poem below, to be built on the backs of anyone else’s suffering. Well-being, happiness and sufficiency of resources should belong to everyone, and torture obviously lays waste to those things. I pray that the committee’s report sets justice into motion, and enough consequences for criminality that the U.S. never goes down the trail of torture again. The immorality of Abu Ghraib makes Watergate look like child’s play.
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