Read it for yourself.

[SomethingFishy]

Here's the LAW we signed off on and then later ratified. I guess the word of the USA isn't worth the fucking paper it's printed on.

Yeah I'm a piece of shit used car salesman to whom you are rolling your eyes at my outrage..
Well this is for you. Here's the fucking law in black and white. THE. FUCKING. LAW.


Article 1
For the purposes of this Convention, torture means 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.
This article is without prejudice to any international instrument or national legislation which does or may contain provisions of wider application.

Article 2
Each State Party shall take effective legislative, administrative, judicial or other measures to prevent acts of torture in any territory under its jurisdiction.
No exceptional circumstances whatsoever, whether a state of war or a threat or war, internal political instability or any other public emergency, may be invoked as a justification of torture.
An order from a superior officer or a public authority may not be invoked as a justification of torture.....

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Article 4
Each State Party shall ensure that all acts of torture are offences under its criminal law. The same shall apply to an attempt to commit torture and to an act by any person which constitutes complicity or participation in torture.
Each State Party shall make these offences punishable by appropriate penalties which take into account their grave nature.

The whole thing is at the link.

http://www.hrweb.org/legal/cat.html

Edit to add the link.. sorry..

[Dont call me Shirley]

1. Here's what bush had to say about the Constitution:

http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/George.Bush.Quote.AA91

[calimary]

2. I remember that.

"Just a goddamn piece of paper." That's why I totally doubt that he was out of the loop. That, and his younger days when he tortured frogs for fun.

Sadistic Fuck!