Human Rights

Yesterday , the federal government of the United States of America indicted the people that are believed to have had a hand in planning the attacks on 9/11.
The man that is accused of planning the attack is Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. His confession to his role was obtained by a torture process called water boarding. It looks to me like trying to drown a person and then revive them. And yes I used the word TORTURE. It is an ugly word. A word we use to describe how foriegn countries treat prisoners. Not a word that should be in the American Justice System, and yet there it is for all the world to see.

I don't care what justification is used to say torture is ok. My opinion and the opinion of the United States Of America's founding fathers is that , everyone, repeat EVERYONE is entitled to just treatment. It does not distinguish between citizens and non citizens. It does not say, it is ok to torture that dark skined man over there because we think he bombed a building. He is innocent until proven guilty.

The men or women who tortured this man are criminals too. Mohammed's confession should be thrown out and he should be relased. He will not get a fair trial. His keepers screwed up royally by using torture on him. Who among you would not confess to anything your TORTURER wanted you to just so you could stand up and not feel like you were drowning.

If his keepers were so sure he did what he was accused of , why did they not use that evidence to convict him. Why did they have to torture him? Were they not confident they got the right man?Oh, and don't forget this man , regardless of how you feel about him, he is a man with basic human rights.We believe in human rights so strongly we even have a constitutional amendment that says that everyone has rights that are not to be infringed on because of their sex, their ETHNIC origins, among other things. Yet , those that are supposed to be the keepers of these ideals that we hold deat to our hearts, have violated that trust.

I dare anyone out to say I am not being patriotic by saying it was wrong to torture Mohammed. I am being patriotic by saying we should not condone this activity by remaining silent.
My children are patriotic because they agree that no one should be judged by the color of thier skin. Justice is not just for the people that we pick and choose, it is for everyone.Even Hitler and every despot there has ever been on earth deserve to have a fair hearing before thier peers.

When we start to condone torture in any form, we cease to be this great country that stands for justice and become the enemy. Do not look to closely for the enemy, because he/she might just be lookng back at you in the mirror. Take a look at the person in mirror. Do you like what you see?Do you see a person that believes in the sanctity of life, regardless of what religion they practice?Do you see a person that does not see the color of a man when you look at him?Do you see a man who will prove himself by his actions? Do like what you see in the mirror?Would you be ashamed to face your god?If you believe in God. I would like everyone to believe in God. But I don't base my feelings about a person on that belief. I base them on how that person is. I have seen people that called themselves godly, ministers even, that are just as animalistic as the meanest , nastiest mass murdering scum in the world. What you call yourself is not what you are, what you do is what you are.

Enough said