We only get upset when we torture foreigners ?

unclesambadProsecute Torturers and Their Bosses

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/12/22/opinion/prosecute-torturers-and-their-bosses.html?_r=0

Since the day President Obama took office, he has failed to bring to justice anyone responsible for the torture of terrorism suspects — an official government program conceived and carried out in the years after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

He did allow his Justice Department to investigate the C.I.A.’s destruction of videotapes of torture sessions and those who may have gone beyond the torture techniques authorized by President George W. Bush. But the investigation did not lead to any charges being filed, or even any accounting of why they were not filed.

Americans have known about many of these acts for years, but the 524-page executive summary of the Senate Intelligence Committee’s report erases any lingering doubt about their depravity and illegality: In addition to new revelations of sadistic tactics like “rectal feeding,” scores of detainees were waterboarded, hung by their wrists, confined in coffins, sleep-deprived, threatened with death or brutally beaten. In November 2002, one detainee who was chained to a concrete floor died of “suspected hypothermia.”

These are, simply, crimes. They are prohibited by federal law, which defines torture as the intentional infliction of “severe physical or mental pain or suffering.” They are also banned by the Convention Against Torture, the international treaty that the United States ratified in 1994 and that requires prosecution of any acts of torture.

http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2340A

(a) Offense.— Whoever outside the United States commits or attempts to commit torture shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both, and if death results to any person from conduct prohibited by this subsection, shall be punished by death or imprisoned for any term of years or for life.

(b) Jurisdiction.— There is jurisdiction over the activity prohibited in subsection (a) if—

(1) the alleged offender is a national of the United States; or
(2) the alleged offender is present in the United States, irrespective of the nationality of the victim or alleged offender.
(c) Conspiracy.— A person who conspires to commit an offense under this section shall be subject to the same penalties (other than the penalty of death) as the penalties prescribed for the offense, the commission of which was the object of the conspiracy.
Is this why the DEA/DOJ is allowed to carry on a war on drugs/patients.. BECAUSE they are not OUTSIDE of the country.. meaning that our own government can legally TORTURE its own citizens ??? while condemning other countries for violating their citizens human rights ???

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  1. Is suffering from constant pain considered torture? I don’t know about other chronic pain survivors, but I definitely feel like the pain is torturing me… every minute, every day.

    Sure, I stopped taking prescription medications — forced to, really. And now I can’t afford medical cannabis… Man, right now, I’d really love to have a couple of Vicodin… But what I really want for Christmas is some good bud. (Heck, at this point, I’ll take bad bud.)

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