A policy debate is raging in the White House, where Defense Department lawyers want torture by U.S. government employees to be legal, but only outside the U.S.
Torture in America
Ted Rall
Ted Rall is a syndicated political cartoonist for Andrews McMeel Syndication, WhoWhatWhy.org and Counterpoint. He is a frequent contributor to The Wall Street Journal, a graphic novelist and author of many books of art and prose, and an occasional war correspondent. He is, recently, the author of the graphic novel "The Stringer."
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Strange, I remember no such raging debate about the prospect of assassination of US citizens outside the US.
Are we to assume that now in the US torture is considered more of a political issue than murder?
Today’s economic torture in the US from from the San Jose Mercury News:
Indian workers in California’s Silicon Valley where paid as little as $1.21 a hour and working as much as 122 hours a week to instal a new computer system. The perpetrator was no small company on the ropes, Electronics for Imaging made 4.8 million in profits in just three months in the 3quater of 2013. The government jumped on the case after an anonymous tip. The company had to pay $40,000 in back wages and $3500 in fines. Is it no wonder that silicon valley wants to bring in more foreign workers because “Americans can’t do the work”.
Links: http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_26778017/tech-company-paid-employees-from-india-little-1?source=rss#disqus_thread
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/electronics-imaging-posts-3q-profit-213103460.html
Can’t do the work (for 1.21USD/hour) – but due to space limitations, the prepositional phrase in parentheses above is omitted….
Henri
Wasn’t it Dick Cheney who actually admitted that the United States tortures people?
Weren’t there several members of the Bush Administration who were convicted as war criminals in Kuala Lumpur?
Why aren’t they in prison?
http://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2012/05/12/bush-convicted-of-war-crimes-in-absentia/
No problem. All you have to do is rewrite the Constitution to get rid of those troublesome clauses about due process and international treaties being the law of the land.
The real problem are these sleazebags who never realize that whatever can be done to other people can be done to them. Wouldn’t you love to see Cheney on a waterboard whining about his so-called rights? “Oh no, I meant other people. You know, extremists and terrorists and bad people …”
Yeah, he might actually have a heart attack!!!
Put it on pay-per-view & pay off the national debt.
The reply of the chap holding up all those medals – or is it the other way ’round ? – demonstrates the faith the US government has in (domestic) private enterprise – or is it the other way ’round ?…
Henri