Torture Trumps Liberty

Torture Trumps Liberty
Payback911

I see America as in a period of severe moral decline. Aside from Kucinich and Paul, the candidates appear complicit in the decline or at least oblivious to it. Despite the recent revelations about the President's poor character, his approval rating has risen to 37%. As long as there is a chicken in every pot, we could care less who leads us. Ratified by the US Congress, the 1948 UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights has the status of US Law. Article IV of this Law outlaws Torture as a crime against humanity. Those who indulge in torture or fund it should be locked until executed for murder. [A wrongful death during a felony crime becomes first degree murder.] Many employees in the three branches of the government deserve lethal injection. We could execute the torturers under the Constitution as well, but much of it has been erased. The hateful simpletons only vilify dissenters. Of course I am an American. Just because I migrated to Israel for religious freedom and personal liberty is no argument to discount my opinions. In 1968 we went to the streets against racism and war. Today's generation is afraid to demonstrate. To those of us who love liberty, this is a tragic loss of freedom.