Senator Mccain's Situational ethics not real principles

Senator Mccain's Situational ethics not real principles




Senator Mccain's Situational ethics are not
the same as real principles.


McCain's straight-talk express breaks down.


On April 23, the National Consortium of Torture
Treatment programs -- including 34 programs that
care for "victims of politically motivated torture"
-- awarded Sen. John McCain its 2006 Human Rights
Visionary Award for his "tireless work to pass
the McCain Anti-Torture Amendment."
Omitted was McCain's disturbing silence after his
amendment was made meaningless to prisoners at
Guantanamo Bay when the president signed the Detainee
Treatment Act of 2005 last December.

That law strips these prisoners of the habeas corpus
rights provided them in the Supreme Court's ruling
in Rasul et al. v. Bush in 2004. Accordingly,
no matter how harsh these detainees' conditions
of confinement are, they have no recourse to our
courts. For example, during the brutal
force-feeding of prisoners on a hunger strike,
the guards told a detainee, "We can do what we
want now because you can't go to court anymore."
McCain has not publicly protested the effect of this law.


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http://www.ukiahdailyjournal.com/editorial/ci_3833134



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