twenty-six innocent people have been tortured by the CIA. These were people who had literally nothing to hide, but they had something to fear anyway. Civil liberties are to be applied to everyone without exception or will be reliable for anyone.
So the nuke this week was the torture report, showing that the CIA had used indiscriminate torture leading to the death of detainees. The CIA was literally more inspired by 24 television series by the laws and constitutions. In several cases, torture has resulted in death -. What we would normally call "murder"
According to the British lawyer and writer Philippe Sands, Jack Bauer - played by Kiefer Sutherland - was an inspiration at the beginning of "wagging -méninges "meeting military officials at Guantanamo in September 02.
This is not only a violation of a principle. It is a serious violation of roughly all of them to together : Ban unusual and cruel punishment, presumption of innocence, the right to a speedy trial the right to life, prohibition of collective punishment, the list continues.
According to the report, the CIA knew that they had the wrong person completely in at least 26 cases.
26 people who had literally nothing to hide.
This shows a very brutal way that it does not matter if you think you're white as snow and have nothing to hide it is. The saying "nothing to hide, nothing to fear" is false, dishonest and misleading. It is always, always, always someone determines whether you have something to hide or not. And they are never using the same criteria as you are.
Here, 26 people who believe in "nothing to hide, nothing to fear" were rewarded by torture. A decade long torture even. Does that mean that if you protect your privacy, you may torture? No, of course it does not.
But what not means is that if you buy into the rhetoric of "rights should not be considered for people who have something to hide," you buy in the idea of civil liberties being flexible and useless - in the illusion that they still apply in some way to anything you when the time came, thinking that you have not done bad. of course, there are no such guarantees, and if history is any guide, they not . civil liberties are either held for people who least deserve it, or person at all. There is no gray area about it.
Privacy remains your own responsibility.
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