Letters May 27, 2009

Wednesday, May 27, 2009

By Planet User

We won’t be fooled again
Mr. Cheney,
You sure lay out a persuasive argument against President Obama’s stand against torture, his plans for the Guantánamo detainees, and his general take on national security. I really have just one question for you, though: How on Earth do you expect me to trust you after the lies your administration told to justify your preferred foreign policy in the Middle East? I think you’re lying again and will say anything to undermine the current administration and push our country back onto the disastrous course of the past seven years. Sorry. We won’t be fooled again.
– Richard Anderson, Jackson

Non-Applicable
This letter is in response to the various newspaper and media
items stressing upon the unconstitutional aspect of the alleged torture methods applied by U.S. forces to captured prisoners of war on foreign soil.Please forgive me if I err, but I am of the understanding that the framers of such said constitution met with each other from May to September in the year of 1787 in a sweltering Philadelphia to discuss, debate, compromise and agreeably create a doctrine of law for the then infant United States of America and its citizens.

Even in their foresighted allowance of amendments, there still exists no reference to the treatment of foreign prisoners of war in a foreign land. If such alleged acts had actually occurred by U.S citizens in the uniform of the armed services and are considered criminal, it is the responsibility of authorities of the nation in which these acts had occurred or that of the governments of the homeland of the alleged victims to prosecute, if warranted. Therefore in this regard, the U.S. constitution is non-applicable.

Allow me to opine in regard to the aforesaid. First off, the U.S.
constitution had been ratified and executed into practice for this nation and only within this nation. It is not world law and should not be assumed to be upheld as such globally. Secondly, I personally as a human being, abhor the very thought of exceedingly cruel and unusual punishment. Thirdly, it is of my opinion that upon this topic and most others, former vice-president Dick Cheney should silence his redundant voice of arrogance and allow this nation to progress and proceed, minus his annoyance.
 – Patrik Troiani, Jacksonian
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