Comments on: My God Does Not Torture People, Part 2 http://blog.sojo.net/2009/07/08/my-god-does-not-torture-people-part-2/ A Blog by Jim Wallis and Friends Mon, 22 Mar 2010 09:13:52 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: jonabark http://blog.sojo.net/2009/07/08/my-god-does-not-torture-people-part-2/comment-page-1/#comment-111522 jonabark Fri, 10 Jul 2009 05:43:23 +0000 http://blog.sojo.net/?p=9893#comment-111522 How is the US different? <br><br>Melissa may be safe in the US, but extraordinary rendition and holding prisoners without trial continues in the Obama administration. Torturers still go without investigation or legal consequences. The US continues to ignore human rights abuses by the thousands in countries under our sway and to only take a stand when the country is on our enemies list. How is the US different?

Melissa may be safe in the US, but extraordinary rendition and holding prisoners without trial continues in the Obama administration. Torturers still go without investigation or legal consequences. The US continues to ignore human rights abuses by the thousands in countries under our sway and to only take a stand when the country is on our enemies list.

]]> By: jonabark http://blog.sojo.net/2009/07/08/my-god-does-not-torture-people-part-2/comment-page-1/#comment-89747 jonabark Fri, 10 Jul 2009 03:43:23 +0000 http://blog.sojo.net/?p=9893#comment-89747 How is the US different? <br><br>Melissa may be safe in the US, but extraordinary rendition and holding prisoners without trial continues in the Obama administration. Torturers still go without investigation or legal consequences. The US continues to ignore human rights abuses by the thousands in countries under our sway and to only take a stand when the country is on our enemies list. How is the US different?

Melissa may be safe in the US, but extraordinary rendition and holding prisoners without trial continues in the Obama administration. Torturers still go without investigation or legal consequences. The US continues to ignore human rights abuses by the thousands in countries under our sway and to only take a stand when the country is on our enemies list.

]]> By: Ngchen http://blog.sojo.net/2009/07/08/my-god-does-not-torture-people-part-2/comment-page-1/#comment-89726 Ngchen Thu, 09 Jul 2009 17:47:01 +0000 http://blog.sojo.net/?p=9893#comment-89726 The story from Melissa Roxas just goes to show that, even for the most hard-headed of pragmatists, torture DOES NOT WORK. Nothing was gained through her unjust suffering, whether it be for her captors, or anyone else. There is good reason for professional interrogators to say that when an interrogation goes into torture, the interrogators are amateurs who don't know what they're doing. So not only is torture immoral, it is also ineffective, except perhaps as a tool to terrorize the populace.<br><br>Now if terrorizing the populace is what the regime is trying to do, then how's the regime's mentality any different from al Qaeda? The story from Melissa Roxas just goes to show that, even for the most hard-headed of pragmatists, torture DOES NOT WORK. Nothing was gained through her unjust suffering, whether it be for her captors, or anyone else. There is good reason for professional interrogators to say that when an interrogation goes into torture, the interrogators are amateurs who don't know what they're doing. So not only is torture immoral, it is also ineffective, except perhaps as a tool to terrorize the populace.

Now if terrorizing the populace is what the regime is trying to do, then how's the regime's mentality any different from al Qaeda?

]]> By: My God Does Not Torture People, Part 2 | Adobe Tutorials http://blog.sojo.net/2009/07/08/my-god-does-not-torture-people-part-2/comment-page-1/#comment-89716 My God Does Not Torture People, Part 2 | Adobe Tutorials Thu, 09 Jul 2009 07:41:57 +0000 http://blog.sojo.net/?p=9893#comment-89716 [...] by Katrina Abarcar07-08-2009 [continued from part 1]Melissa Roxas, the U.S. citizen who was abducted and tortured in the Philippines in May, was released on May 25 and dropped off at her uncle’s house by her captors Read more from the original source: My God Does Not Torture People, Part 2 [...] [...] by Katrina Abarcar07-08-2009 [continued from part 1]Melissa Roxas, the U.S. citizen who was abducted and tortured in the Philippines in May, was released on May 25 and dropped off at her uncle’s house by her captors Read more from the original source: My God Does Not Torture People, Part 2 [...]

]]> By: 1Grace http://blog.sojo.net/2009/07/08/my-god-does-not-torture-people-part-2/comment-page-1/#comment-89693 1Grace Wed, 08 Jul 2009 17:12:39 +0000 http://blog.sojo.net/?p=9893#comment-89693 This story should main streamed into our mass media . more people need<br>to know about such things from a source that has more listeners. This story should main streamed into our mass media . more people need
to know about such things from a source that has more listeners.

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