Wednesday, July 05, 2006

Alan Dershowitz has cracked-up entirely


If we have to re-write our laws in order to allow torture of other human beings in order to save our society, it should not be saved.

There must be a line we will not cross, and surely torture is one of those lines.

Independent Online Edition > Americas:

"The United States' Supreme Court has ruled that military tribunals at Guantanamo Bay breach the human rights of inmates. But in an age of suicide bombings and mass civilian casualties, do our laws themselves need to be rewritten? Are we just ignoring the unpalatable truth: that the survival of our society may depend on the legalised torture of terror suspects? Here, America's leading liberal lawyer, Alan Dershowitz, presents the case for radical reform "

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