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http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=86144647Congress has in front of it the Bringing Terrorists to Justice Act, S.3861. This act is part of the ongoing effort the American government is engaged in to reinterpret the Geneva Conventions in a way that permits them to interrogate prisoners in any way they want and it creates a dangerous precedent. The Administration is attempting to redefine the meaning of simple terms in Common Article 3 - prohibitions against "outrages upon human dignity" and "humiliating and degrading treatment" - by explicit reference to the Detainee Treatment Act of 2005. That law requires interrogations to comply with existing U.S. constitutional standards.
This bill Narrowly defines sexual abuse as forced genital or anal penetration. It effectively decriminalizes, for american soldiers all other forms of rape and sexual abuse, including sex without consent, sexual acts for food or privileges, coerced oral sex, ordered strip searches and humiliations, photographing prisoners naked, removing intimate privacies, forcing prisoners to perform various acts while naked, etc.
The world community recognizes that many of these acts are, in fact, rape. We can't afford to permit Americans to rape in our name. We have to be very clear about what we, as the people, will not tolerate. This administration is trying to find solid ways to ensure that it will never sit trial for war crimes. To that end they are willing to create loopholes that let monsters walk through.
An indeterminate number of children, aged 13 to 15, have been held at Guantanamo bay, Abu Ghraib, Bagram Air force base and other American operated detention centers. This applies to them as well. We are about to make it legal for servicemen to rape children.
Please contact your congressman First thing on Monday Morning.
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