The Ends Do Not Justify The Means

Although we have hope in the future for the United States, although we have Barack Obama, we are not in a good place yet.

I am continually infuriated by the Bush Administration. It's 4:09 pm and I'm in World Politics. I am absolutely disgusted with how much I didn't know about our current President, the Military Commissions Act and the CIA's operations at Guantanamo Bay. I am sick to my stomach.

We're using torture techniques used in the Spanish Inquisition.

If this had been done to American soldiers, wouldn't we be raging, foaming at the mouth demanding that people stop tourturing our boys?

So how is this ok?

If we make an excuse to get rid of Common Article 3, there's no way that other countries will listen to us when they want to do the same. We can't set such an awful precedence.

These people responsible need to be prosecuted. If we want to stay the an example and a role model for other countries, that is what needs to happen. We need to throw off this notion of ethnocentrism. We are no better than anyone else. Americans do not deserve life more than anyone else. There is no excuse for this.

I refuse to be "Safe" through the mental and physical torture of another human being.

The ends do not justify the means.