The Implications of Justifying Torture

Thomas Sowell, the political advisor and columnist, writes that it is acceptable to torture non-Americans, specifically terrorist suspects, who, he maintains, should not have rights extended to them.

C. Rice, goes on a European tour, claiming the US does not commit acts of torture, if only within the narrow definition that the Administration goes by.

The first, destroys principles by nationalistic subjective annihilation. The second destroys thought by concept annihilation.

Principle one: Let no human being be subjected to cruel and unusual treatment, as exemplified by the spirit of Article VIII of the US Bill of Rights.

Principle two: All humans possess inalienable rights, as exemplified by The Declaration of Independence.

Principle three: A person is presumed innocent until proven guilty, as forms the basis of all civilized law known, at least, since the ancient Greeks and Romans.

That a debate even exists on the use of torture is proof of the vitiation of America. Beware of the implications of the tortuous reasoning that is behind justifying torture. Disarmed of concepts with which to think, disarmed of principles by which to act, we sow the seeds of tyranny upon our own homeland with the same contempt for humanity that we wreak on others.