Post by Thetaloops on Jun 9, 2004 12:57:03 GMT -5
www.counterpunch.org/whitney06092004.html
Defender of the Lash & the Cattle Prod
Alan Dershowitz, Professor of Torture
By MIKE WHITNEY
"THE GENEVA Conventions are so outdated and are written so broadly that they have become a sword used by terrorists to kill civilians, rather than a shield to protect civilians from terrorists. These international laws have become part of the problem, rather than part of the solution."
Ah, yes, the "ticking-time-bomb" theory once again; that "all purpose" pretext for excusing any imaginable form of cruelty. Dershowitz invokes the most extreme scenario and uses it as the rationale for overturning the laws that protect the individual.
It's this kind of thinking, Dershowitz, Rumsfeld and Bush that is a 'time bomb' to the civilized world, not the locals that are picked up at random, then, tortured, humiliated and sometimes killed.
Defender of the Lash & the Cattle Prod
Alan Dershowitz, Professor of Torture
By MIKE WHITNEY
"THE GENEVA Conventions are so outdated and are written so broadly that they have become a sword used by terrorists to kill civilians, rather than a shield to protect civilians from terrorists. These international laws have become part of the problem, rather than part of the solution."
Ah, yes, the "ticking-time-bomb" theory once again; that "all purpose" pretext for excusing any imaginable form of cruelty. Dershowitz invokes the most extreme scenario and uses it as the rationale for overturning the laws that protect the individual.
It's this kind of thinking, Dershowitz, Rumsfeld and Bush that is a 'time bomb' to the civilized world, not the locals that are picked up at random, then, tortured, humiliated and sometimes killed.