{"id":103,"date":"2008-01-28T09:36:10","date_gmt":"2008-01-28T13:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=103"},"modified":"2008-01-28T09:36:10","modified_gmt":"2008-01-28T13:36:10","slug":"canadas-torture-watchlist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=103","title":{"rendered":"Canada’s Torture "Watchlist""},"content":{"rendered":"

Whew, I’m sure we feel better after this report<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Canada’s foreign ministry, responding to pressure from close allies, today said would remove the United States and Israel from a watch list of countries where prisoners risk being tortured.<\/p>\n

Both nations expressed unhappiness after it emerged that they had been listed in a document that formed part of a training course manual on torture awareness given to Canadian diplomats.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The article goes on to note it was all a misunderstanding, though it’s not quite clear if the misunderstanding was that the US and Israel were on the list, or that anyone found out<\/em> that the US and Israel were on the list.<\/p>\n

And what were those things that got us on the list in the first place?<\/p>\n

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Under ”definition of torture” the document lists US interrogation techniques such as forced nudity, isolation, sleep deprivation and blindfolding prisoners.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Folks, if that’s "torture", the word no longer has meaning.  Blindfolding?  You want to debate waterboarding, that’s fine.  But if that debate is going to take us down a road that leads to the banning of blindfolding, then the Left needs to come clean on this before the debate starts.  <\/p>\n

Some say they’ll know torture when they see it, and for most people that ain’t it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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