U.N. expert faults U.S. on human rights in terror laws
By Evelyn Leopold
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United States apparently violated international law in its military tribunals by using coercion to extract confessions and writing counter-terrorism laws that restrict immigration on questionable grounds, a U.N. investigator said on Friday.
June 2nd, 2007 at 8:08 am
[…] Consistently, atrocities have been committed on behalf of the American people and in their name since late 2001. Consistently, this has eroded our ability to affect outcomes in the world, including rifts within NATO in Afghanistan. Consistently, we are viewed askance when we voice what is highest and best in our culture–messages of freedom, peace, human rights, universal suffrage, economic opportunity. I’ve been listening to C-Span’s morning program, which gives an interesting review of American political thought. Some of us have put our faith in dubious leaders. I want to go on record: those leaders have betrayed us and compromised our principles. They have bound us by fear to do things we would not countenance for our own people, and should not countenance for anyone. […]