{Community Coalition Announcements} Please sign my petition to arrest Bush

The UN's convention against torture defines torture as: "Any act by
which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is
intentionally inflicted on a person for such purposes as obtaining
from him or a third person, information or a confession, punishing him
for an act he or a third person has committed or is suspected of
having committed, or intimidating or coercing him or a third person,
or for any reason based on discrimination of any kind, when such pain
or suffering is inflicted by or at the instigation of or with the
consent or acquiescence of a public official or other person acting in
an official capacity. It does not include pain or suffering arising
only from, inherent in or incidental to lawful sanctions."
Dictionary.com defines it as: "1. extreme pain 2. the infliction of
great pain, especially. for punishment or coercion 3. Extreme anguish
of body or mind.
The UN's Convention on Torture also specifically mentions
"waterboarding" as a form of torture. A practice in which the US hung
Japanese soldiers for employing on POWs during WWII. So why is it ok
for the US to employ the same "enhanced interrogation" tactics on
suspected terrorists in order to gain information on the whereabouts
of a US trained terrorist group leader? The answer is simple... Its
not. Torture is a crime no matter who tries to justify it and for
whatever reason. Former VP Dick Chaney openly admitted to using
"waterboarding" on national television in order to "to obtain
important information" on Osama Bin Laden. A feat that proved futile
in the end as the information that was obtained was gathered through
more "conventional interrogation" tactics. Please either follow or
copy and paste the link below and tell the world to hold the Bush on
trial before the ICC for committing crimes of torture.

www.change.org/petitions/torture-is-torture-even-if-the-us-government-does-it

Thank you
Caleb

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