Letter: Insight regarding issue of torture
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Bill Moyers Journal of July 25 hosted Jane Mayers, a writer for The New Yorker who just finished writing “The Dark Side.” She investigates the role of torture as it has evolved in our government.
As of July 2008, the chief justice of our nation is still unable to define waterboarding as “torture,” even though on CNN a former U.S. Navy interrogation specialist defined waterboarding as “actual drowning.”
If our country lowers itself to the dark ages of torture, how can we be ignorant of the fact that our soldiers are now based in more than 100 countries? They are always at risk of being captured and exposed to the same tactics.
Condoleezza Rice, our globe-traveling secretary of state, looks the world in the eye and declares, “The United States does not torture!”
While the ethical struggle goes on among people who seem to lack clarity of mind, they could draw some insights from the Louisiana Criminal Law Book of 1989:
“No person under arrest shall be subjected to any treatment designed by effect on body or mind to compel a confession of a crime.” (#15:452)
Vic Hummert
retired jail chaplain
Lafayette
As of July 2008, the chief justice of our nation is still unable to define waterboarding as “torture,” even though on CNN a former U.S. Navy interrogation specialist defined waterboarding as “actual drowning.”
If our country lowers itself to the dark ages of torture, how can we be ignorant of the fact that our soldiers are now based in more than 100 countries? They are always at risk of being captured and exposed to the same tactics.
Condoleezza Rice, our globe-traveling secretary of state, looks the world in the eye and declares, “The United States does not torture!”
While the ethical struggle goes on among people who seem to lack clarity of mind, they could draw some insights from the Louisiana Criminal Law Book of 1989:
“No person under arrest shall be subjected to any treatment designed by effect on body or mind to compel a confession of a crime.” (#15:452)
Vic Hummert
retired jail chaplain
Lafayette
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