| | Being back in Ann Arbor always brings out the activist in me. I'm pissed about a variety of things at the moment, including military recruitment (but I don't have time to really unload everything I have to say on that), so I'll just dump this little Op-Ed by Paul Krugman out there for consideration. For the record, this kid is against redefining or weaseling our way around the Geneva Conventions. Big fan of the Geneva Conventions myself. An excerpt:
Let's be clear what we're talking about here. According to an ABC
News report from last fall, procedures used by C.I.A. interrogators have included
forcing prisoners to "stand, handcuffed and with their feet shackled to
an eye bolt in the floor for more than 40 hours"; the "cold cell,"
in which prisoners are forced "to stand naked in a cell kept near 50 degrees,"
while being doused with cold water; and, of course, water boarding, in which
"the prisoner is bound to an inclined board, feet raised and head slightly
below the feet," then "cellophane is wrapped over the prisoner's
face and water is poured over him," inducing "a terrifying fear
of drowning."
Go USA!
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| | Posted 9/18/2006 12:04 PM - 24 Views - 2 eProps - 1 Comment
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