Supremes say "Rendition is DoublePlus Good!"

[Bill]

By saying that rendition and torture can't be tried in a US court becuase it might reveal state secrets, the Supremes give rendition and torture their stamp of approval.

So it's official now.

But that's okay, he was just a german. lebanese too, he had to be guilty, right?

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"WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Tuesday terminated a lawsuit from a man who claims he was abducted and tortured by the CIA, effectively endorsing Bush administration arguments that state secrets would be revealed if the case were allowed to proceed.

Khaled el-Masri, 44, alleged that he was kidnapped by CIA agents in Europe and held in an Afghan prison for four months in a case of mistaken identity.

The administration has not publicly acknowledged that el-Masri was detained, and lower courts dismissed his suit after the administration asserted that state secrets would be revealed if the lawsuit were not blocked. The justices rejected his appeal without comment."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21205942/

[kres24GT]

Torture will always be used in these areas, regardless of what the Supreme Court or politcians say. It's always been used and always will be. If they ever start doing it to American citizens is the only way there could ever be enough talk to get it to stop.

[Bill]

Yes, but back when we were the good guys, we didn't embrace it.

[disrupter]

Maybe it happens, but it must never be a sanctioned policy.
Whenever anyone does it they should be fully aware they put both their career & free-legal status on the line doing so. It should always be categorized as outside the lines, period.

The cases where it makes any sense at all are so rare they are countable.

Right now we are mass torturing large numbers of people who don't know a god damned thing & creating anti-american hate in the process.

With the damage to ourselves we are causing with reckless casual torture, we would be better off without EVER doing it again. It creates many more problems than it solves. Pulpifying a taxi drivers legs, killing him, not because he had any information, but because he had the temerity to speak angrily to guards. It is just sick & WAY out of control.

To win hearts & minds it helps if you are actually a good guy.

Torture makes us just one more evil actor on the world stage,
unworthy of pride or patriotism.

[Frankg]

Supremes say "Rendition is DoublePlus Good!"

Hmmmm.... I never figured the supremes to be into politics