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UPDATE: How America Has Decided to Create Six More Terrorists For Every One We Catch
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UPDATE: As of the afternoon of February 26, sadly, the language about punishments for intelligence agents who break the rules has been stricken from the amendment:
Yesterday (Thursday, Feb. 25, 1:15 pm CST) on CSPAN a new American intelligence bill was being debated. Apparently it contains language that instructs American intelligence officers to respect the rights of those captured and accused of terrorist activity, including prohibiting the intelligence agents from making statements which blaspheme the terrorists' religion and prohibiting the agents from isolating these individuals in their incarceration, and mandating the reading of Miranda rights for those accused terrorists who will be tried in American courts.
Understandably this bill is an attempt to prevent the kind of tortuous abuses that were perpetrated at Abu Graib. I have not read the bill and so I do not know what else it contains. At the moment the Congressmen are discussing only what I have stated above.
Many Congressmen are arguing that this bill would only weaken our intelligence community because it will mean that terrorists will be treated better than normal Americans accused of crimes Stateside.
Is this true, or would respecting terrorists' humanity deliver the ultimate, winning, moral blow: that two wrongs don't make a right. Will America not gain a wonderful moral victory by treating the accused terrorists with justice, humanity, and decency?
Will this not strike the karmic blow to terrorism--to incarcerate the people accused but to treat them decently?
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