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This channel focuses on clarifying the issues (and consequences) of the United States of America's use of torture.
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If OUR representatives aren't accountable for their actions then we're in more trouble than many can imagine; because if corrupt and criminal representatives know they won't be held accountable by the citizens of the US, they won't stop. To these unconscionable criminals way of thinking, why should they? - It's up to WE the PEOPLE to DEMAND ACCOUNTABILITY from our elected officials.
...because the consequences of the alternative are unthinkable.
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Would that before March of 2003 more Americans remembered the words of a true American patriot when he said: "I confidently trust that the American people will prove themselves too wise not to detect the false pride or the dangerous ambitions or the selfish schemes which so often hide themselves under that deceptive cry of mock patriotism: 'Our country, right or wrong!' "
"They will not fail to recognize that our dignity, our free institutions and the peace and welfare of this and coming generations of Americans will be secure only as we cling to the watchword of true patriotism: Our country, when right to be kept right; when wrong to be put right." - Carl Schurz (19th century U.S. Senator (and immigrant))
"My country, when right to be kept right; when wrong to be put right." - C. Schurz
Personally, I believe Schurz's comments are much more in the spirit of American patriotism than the anthem to governmental license its derivative has become.
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Excerpts from Retired Vice Admiral Lee Gunn's testimony before Congress in early March 2009:
"An independent commission could undertake the task of examining the facts and, in so doing, weigh the true effectiveness of the Bush administration's torture tactics. Did torture actually uncover actionable intelligence? Did it interrupt plans? And did it actually save lives? If so, what were the countervailing costs to our national security?"
"Did the use of torture spark terrorist recruitment, increase danger to our troops, and damage U.S. leadership and prestige? And did these costs outweigh the benefits? Might actionable intelligence have also been obtained by the non-coercive methods experienced intelligence interrogators experts recommend and employ? What strategic security gains could be reaped from shifting to a policy of complete, consistent and transparent compliance with human rights norms?"
"The Bush Administration's misguided embrace of torture, secret prisons and renditions to torture came at an enormous cost to our American values, our laws, and our counterterrorism efforts. Repairing our reputation as a nation committed to human rights and building a more sustainable framework for national security policy going forward requires a comprehensive examination of the policies and practices that sanctioned torture and abuse."
"This Congress and the new Administration have a window of opportunity to conduct an examination that signals to the American people and to the world that the policies of the last seven years were an aberration and that the United States is invested in creating an effective, long-term strategy for counterterrorism and intelligence gathering which adheres to American principles and values and to United States and international law."
"The stakes are incredibly high. In the balance hangs the ability of the United States to maintain the integrity of our counterterrorism policy; improve intelligence cooperation with allies; support the human intelligence community in employing proven, effective methods for gathering actionable information; and re-establish the moral authority necessary to restore the United States as a world leader in upholding human rights."
(source: http://judiciary.senate.gov...)
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