U.S. 'knew damn well' Arar would be tortured: senator
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"We knew damn well if he went to Canada he wouldn't be tortured," said Leahy, a Democrat from Vermont. "He'd be held and he'd be investigated.
"We also knew damn well if he went to Syria, he'd be tortured. And it's beneath the dignity of this country — a country that has always been a beacon of human rights — to send somebody to another country to be tortured."
Leahy seems to be mistaken. He should have said that it should be beneath the dignity ..., but since it happened, it is not beneath the dignity. In fact, it pretty much looks like protocol for the US to send innocent people to terrible places just to see what can be beaten out of them.
One has to look only as far as the death penalty to know that the US is not the beacon of human rights. What is more barbaric than murdering mentally retarded adults that committed a murder? What is more barbaric than treating children as adults in the courts? What is more barbaric that invading Iraq and endorsing the hanging of former officials such that their heads pop off. Just an aside, but wouldn't the guy have been somewhat disemboweled as well? Today, the US is the beacon of barbaric invasions and the violation of human rights internationally.
You're right. No point in blaming the entire country, even if they have a democratically (cough, cough, snicker) elected government that represents the people's wishes. If the people objected to what the homeland security whizkids were up to, they could have changed the government last time there was an election.
This coming from a citizen of country that is ruled by people you have never voted for.
Amazing.
Because you haven't.
Executive Branch of Government in Canada:
The Sovereign; Have you voted for the Queen? No.
Governor General: Have you voted for the GG? No.
Prime Minister; When you cast your vote, did you vote for the PM or your MP? Your MP, you have no say who is leader of the party, hence no say who's the next PM.
Legislative Branch of Government in Canada:
Do you vote for any of the 105 members of the Senate? No.
The one person you vote for, your MP, does he/she have a say who will be in government cabinets? No. The person you never voted for decides that, your PM.
You only vote for one person, your MP.
I call that, not voting for the people who rule you.
give them a break. they had the trauma of the towers to get over, the cabal that is Iraq to come to terms with and John Kerry as their only other option. if the Dem's had any cajones at all they would have gone with Dean instead of the blueblood. and Rove's deal with the devil hadn't reached its best before date, either.
some forces just don't turn that quickly.
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and you REALLY think you aren't.
that's hilarious.
as a collective your entire society is shoved so far up the military-industrial complex's ass the only part of it left showing is used as a pencil holder by the advertising agencies.
re-electing Bush was just a symptom. I mean, face it. the man's a **** ing idiot.
our government cabinet has more power than your founding fathers even had the nerve to put into one room. our governer general is the only thing that stands between them and dictatorship and here's something about it that Jefferson didn't have the brains to ever even dream of...
it works.
I know it's painful when you don't get to vote those who govern you, but, oh well, compliments of the British Empire. :laughing7:
At least we can blame ourselves for electing the idiot, who do you get to blame? Ah yes, Queen Elizabeths father banging her mother.
Hey, it's your system, if you're happy with it, I don't care. But next time there is a cough, snicker, cough about someone being democratically elected in the US, I'll remind him/her about the "modernized" caste system in use up North. Have a nice day. :wave:
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