Friday, December 12, 2014

Wasting Money on Torture?


I believe that what the CIA is doing to these people is not okay. These people are not innocent and obviously shouldn’t be treated like kings and queens but they are still people. Everyone in the world is still a human-being and I don’t believe that anyone should be treated like a dog. It is not fair that this body guard for Osama Bin Laden is being terrorized in this sort of manner. If President Obama’s bodyguard had been taken and tortured the way that we are torturing this guy from Afghanistan, our country would blow up! When you take away a person’s toilet privileges, hang a guy for 17 days, or drag him across a floor with no clothes on like he is nothing, there is obviously something wrong with you and a line has been crossed.

                First of all, we are in debt by SEVENTEEN TRILLION dollars and we are paying people eighty million dollars to think of torture tactics?????  How is that even logical? These people are making working individuals pay tax dollars on finding new ways to torture people! I think that this is absolutely wrong and unthinkable. People need to get their priorities straight and think about the stuff that really matters and things that we need to be spending our countries money on.

                Our highest government officials, including President Bush, broke international and U.S. laws by torture, cruel, and degrading treatment. But the worst part about all of it is that they made their employees in the military and civilian services break those laws for them. They tortured people who may have been guilty of terrorism-related crimes, but they ruined any chance of prosecuting them because of how bad they tortured them.  They tortured based on false information they had extracted from others through torture; they tortured to hide their mistakes and to get confessions and they tortured sometimes just to break people, pure and simple.