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Richard some help?Sorry to start a whole new blog topic but it will be easier for me to find and track. Let me first assure you (in response to one of your previous postings) that you will never see anything my bride of almost 33 years writes here. She has no interaction with computers at all and does not even do e-mail. I hope you will not mind my diverging into a new avenue concerning torture but I am writing a small and insignificant paper concerning the International Criminal Court etc. and I am needing the reactions/thoughts of a right wing curmudgeon with total disdain for the law and so naturally I thought of you. I am sorry I do not have the time to be longwinded here but here is my dilemma/question: In your (generically speaking) support for torture/water boarding do you (by which I mean those of your ilk) totally disregard international law? I believe it is indisputable that waterboarding is torture. Is this in dispute in your (and those of your ilks)mind despite overwhelming case law? Waterboarding Used to Be a Crime Typically, I am on the other side, trying to get the ICC to overlook torture so that a leader of a country, such as Liberia’s Charles Taylor, will accept a deal and go into exile without fearing prosecution. In your support for torture, what exactly is the difference in your (ilk) mind between your position and Taylor’s or Mugabe’s? Finally, are you (ilk) going to be surprised in the future if members of the Bush administration are arrested in some foreign country and brought to trial for war crimes? Sorry to dump such a heavy subject and run. I just need the barest outlines of whatever you think that I would not have thought of. JeffC's blog | login to post comments![]() |