U.S. Sets Torture Example

According to CNSNews, Larry Cox, executive director of Amnesty International, claims the war on terror has become the war against human rights.


He said the detainees at Guantanamo are being held in conditions that can lead to mental illness, that the inmates are possibly being tortured, but "exactly what happens to these people is kept a secret from all of us."


Asked if it is only a "possibility" and if what happens to the detainees is actually kept "secret", then how does he know for sure that they are in fact being tortured.

"Because it's the American military," said Cox. "That's what they would do, isn't it? I mean, I figure they would torture them and stuff, you know, because we're the evil ones, see?"

Cox then added, "What they do at Guantanamo is not light weight. Compared to teaching children to become suicide bombers or to videotape the beheading of innocent people is NOTHING, I repeat, NOTHING to what our American soldiers are doing to those poor detainees. They're only crime is that they want us dead."

Cox then buried his face in his hands and began weeping, occasionally peeking through his fingers to make sure the people around him were looking.

After gaining his composure, Cox blasted reports that what the military does at these camps help to prevent other terrorist attacks.

"Baloney," he said. "You know why we haven't had another attack on American soil since 9/11? Because our so-called 'enemy' notices how people like ME act, and how people like ME are looking out for them and it melts their hearts.

"I'm sure most of the so-called "terrorists" have thrown down their weapons and have become happy, productive humanist-secularists."

Cox believes that when the United States condones torture, then it sends the message to the world's dictators that such methods are justifiable.

"If the U.S. didn't embrace torture, then we would set the example and no other dictator on earth would embrace such tactics either."

Cox hopes that by him not condoning torture, by the Americans only, it will set the example for the rest of the world, resulting in world peace forever and ever.