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Thursday, January 13, 2005

US and our crappy human rights

This story from the BBC is so stupid. The Human Rights watch which is an american based organization has made a decree that our human rights abuses have made it so that we no longer have any moral high ground on human rights. Does this make sense? An American organization has no perspective on this issue so I wish they'd shut-up. All of this terror torture shit is so overblown I can't believe it. I can't read Andrew Sullivan anymore because all he does is release a bitch storm about it. We have had over 130 convictions because of this stuff. Torturing is bad and the US military prosecutes people for doing it and I hope they continue to do so. What do we condone though? Sleep deprivation? I was reading an article the other day where a guy said that terrorists don't give any information because they know our threats and facade of torture has no weight and to just wait it out because life is good in American jail. Every so often an American abuses prisoners, and when the military finds out and has enough evidence, they convict them over 130 times. It's funny I was watching a History Channel special on American POW's in WW2 and it walked about how prisoner mortality rates in Japan were like 40% or some crazy ass number and in Nazi Germany, Hitler made treating prisoners well a priority and had a very good record on prisoner treatment with less than 1% of prisoners dying. I think a good way to judge a country's stance on human rights is how we treat our prisoners because- Hitler=good prisoner treatment=good guy. Does that make any fucking sense? We have good prisoner treatment as we have so few prisoners die in our custody and they are well fed and fuck the MSM and idiots like Andrew Sullivan who "flood the zone" with true instances that are not representative of the situation at all. Sometimes I get so frustrated with the perspective that refuses to be employed by people who have so much airtime and influence that I just want to explode. Look at that study where students were placed in charge of other students and they ended up being nutty powertripped assholes to their "prisoners". Sometimes, people just get drunk with their power. Prisoner treatment (which ours is good) is not the way we should define a country's stance on human rights either. If you go by that, then Nazi Germany is one of the best governments ever as far as human rights go.

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