What have we become under such mendacious and inhumane executive leadership? I did not always agree with Senator McCain but one thing about him is true he sacrificed for this nation, he was tortured and suffered permanent physical damage in a N. Vietnamese prison camp. He knows well what torture can do. Who of us could stand such pain? He nearly lost his life for his nation and incurred permanent damage to his arms from that torture. His captors offered him release but he would not go until the rest of the American prisoners were freed. He is courage, he is honor, and he is duty to country at least the country we used to inhabit. The torture inflicted by N. Vietnam is why Senator McCain is against torture now. If this nation torturers one can be sure its adversaries will do the same and more. It is why he is against the CIA torturer in chief during the Iraq War, Gina Haspel, nominated to head the CIA.
The
US is supposed to stand for something. Gina Haspel used the familiar
argument for her acquiescing to and committing war crimes that the
perpetrators of the Holocaust employed -- I was just following orders.
The Nuremberg trials at the conclusion of WWII led by US Justice Jackson
stood for something. It stood against crimes against humanity. It was
a universal edict that was supposed to apply to everyone. The Trump
administration spits in the face of the Nuremberg conclusions and
rejects our Constitutional document's Eighth Amendment specifically
prohibiting cruel and unusual punishment. Moreover, this administration
cares nothing about the Geneva Convention treaty it signed.
"Torture
was the subject of the Geneva Convention as well as the Convention
Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or
Punishment.
In signing these treaties, each nation made a commitment to “take
effective legislative, administrative, judicial or other measures to
prevent acts of torture in any territory under its jurisdiction.”
In pursuance
to its agreement, the United States legislatively prohibited torture and
other war crimes under 18 U.S. Code § 2441. Violators may be fined or
imprisoned for life or any term of years.
Trump
cares nothing about the Geneva Convention if he knows about it at all.
In fact, he said during the campaign he wants more severe torture than
simply waterboarding. Read about those who suffered waterboarding and
see how easy it is to endure. It is a brutal form of torture used in
the Spanish Inquisition of 1478. Trump is leading us into another
Middle East war by his rejection of the nuclear agreement -- a war in
which he will never fight nor has he ever fought in war even in his
youth. President Bonespur Five Deferments Trump will send other
people's children to wars with no end but not his own children. He is
raping our nation of taxpayer money as well. Both he and his family will
sacrifice nothing but will make the middle class, the working class,
the poor, the elderly and the sick pay. Trump and his Republicans are about the 2% richest of this nation giving his permanent huge tax cuts to the top 2% and a smaller IMPERMANENT tax cut for the middle and working classes who allegedly gave him electoral victory but with 3,000,000 votes given to his opponent who won the popular vote. One need only look at his billionaire cabinet to see its billionaires and their deep swampy corruption. This is unacceptable.
Trump's victory was anemic and his policies now wield destruction for those families who can least afford it. He is bringing death to a once great democracy. Our nation was never perfect. What nation is but it was a damn sight better than the oligarchy it is morphing into now.
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