Anti-terror tactics 'weaken law'

[annabanana]

Source: BBC

Anti-terror measures worldwide have seriously undermined international human rights law, a report by legal experts says.

After a three-year global study, the International Commission of Jurists said many states used the public's fear of terrorism to introduce measures.

These included detention without trial, illegal disappearance and torture.

It also said that the UK and the US have "actively undermined" international law by their actions.



Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7892387.stm

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My first response to this article was to quote our disasterous SofS Condi's "No one could have guessed . . . ."

This issue pains me beyond all others. That the United States, whose whole point was to free people from the fear of the tyranny of absolute monarchy should now be the posterboy for every international thug and bully in the world is physically painful. It sits like a lead weight on my heart.

[KakistocracyHater]

1. I knew it would, why the Left did not oppose the madness

shows me how few true leaders we actually have. The NEXT TIME a madman takes the office of president there is !NOTHING THAT WILL STOP HIM FROM CONTUING BUSH-YEARS!

I was horrified to see how everyone just fell back & let the madmen have their way-no real resistence, just popular morons too scared to do what protocols !!demanded!! If Obama does not change the laws that Bush/Cheney DEFORMED we are done; historians can point to the end of America to baby Bush, but Clinton did nothing to help-whatever happened to his 1996 efforts to strengthen airline cockpit doors? Some 'pre-Sept2001' bullshit by the maladroit....how polite of Bill. I would have used that to destroy the Right.

[dipsydoodle]

2. K & R

What's SofS ? Sack of shit ?:shrug:

[No Elephants]

3. We had nothing to fear but fear itself--and how Bushco would use it.