Controversial statements by top government officials and the judiciary in the U.S..
This is an extract from an interview with Justice Scalia, one of the best known judges the U.S. Supreme Court. I've put some links of video of the interview.
And the Supreme Court Judge Antonin Scalia stated publicly that torture of prisoners does not violate the prohibition of "cruel and unusual punishment" of the Eighth Amendment. Scalia's comment came during an interview with Lesley Stahl on 60 Minutes on CBS.
Justice Scalia said: "I do not like torture. But it will be difficult to define. But, I mean, who is in favor? Nobody. And we have a law against torture. But not everything that is hateful hatred is covered by any provision of the Constitution. "
Stahl said: "If someone is in custody, as in Abu Ghraib, and is beaten by a maintenance person order, if you hear the expression, cruel and insusual, do not apply? ".
Justice Scalia said: "I do not like torture. But it will be difficult to define. But, I mean, who is in favor? Nobody. And we have a law against torture. But not everything that is hateful hatred is covered by any provision of the Constitution. "
Stahl said: "If someone is in custody, as in Abu Ghraib, and is beaten by a maintenance person order, if you hear the expression, cruel and insusual, do not apply? ".
Scalia: "No, no."
Stahl, "cruel and unusual punishment?".
Scalia: "On the contrary. You think ... you think so. Does anyone have ever spoken of torture or punishment? I think not. "
Stahl: "Well, I think if you are in custody and have a policeman who took him into custody ...."
Scalia: "And you say he's punishing you?".
Stahl: "Sure."
Scalia: "Why is punishing? You punish somebody .... "
Stahl: "Well, because it assumes you, one, committed a crime ...."
Scalia: "No".
Stahl: "O ...."
Scalia: "No".
Stahl: ".. you know something he wants to know."
Scalia: "The last. And when, when he, when he hurts to get information from you .... "
Stahl: "Yes"
Scalia: ".. you do not say he's punishing you. Why is punishing? He's trying to get .... "
Stahl: "Because you think you are a terrorist, and will hit ya know what ...." Scalia: "Anyway, that's my opinion. And it is correct. " Links
Stahl, "cruel and unusual punishment?".
Scalia: "On the contrary. You think ... you think so. Does anyone have ever spoken of torture or punishment? I think not. "
Stahl: "Well, I think if you are in custody and have a policeman who took him into custody ...."
Scalia: "And you say he's punishing you?".
Stahl: "Sure."
Scalia: "Why is punishing? You punish somebody .... "
Stahl: "Well, because it assumes you, one, committed a crime ...."
Scalia: "No".
Stahl: "O ...."
Scalia: "No".
Stahl: ".. you know something he wants to know."
Scalia: "The last. And when, when he, when he hurts to get information from you .... "
Stahl: "Yes"
Scalia: ".. you do not say he's punishing you. Why is punishing? He's trying to get .... "
Stahl: "Because you think you are a terrorist, and will hit ya know what ...." Scalia: "Anyway, that's my opinion. And it is correct. " Links
where opinion on Scalia's position
http://saberderecho.blogspot.com/2008/02/la-miseria-del-textualismo.html
http://seminariogargarella.blogspot.com/ (known Argentine professor of constitutional law. He studied at Chicago and Oxford) Here you can see the video interview with Scalia.
http://seminariogargarella.blogspot.com/ (known Argentine professor of constitutional law. He studied at Chicago and Oxford) Here you can see the video interview with Scalia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonin_Scalia transcribes the interview in English.
worth seeing the video or, in any case, read the transcript in the original language. Statements
U.S. Vice President and the highest authorities of the CIA
The national intelligence director and the attorney general felt that waterboarding would be torture or submarine itself, if they apply to them, and maybe today the practice and would be illegal, as has historically managed and the U.S. government itself, "two of the most senior figures in Washington were quick to defend torture.
Vice President Dick Cheney defended the "harsh interrogation program" of the CIA and said he would do the same again, while Antonin Scalia, justice of the Supreme Court, said publicly that beatings and other forms of interrogation are acceptable when necessary by circumstances.
Vice President Dick Cheney defended the "harsh interrogation program" of the CIA and said he would do the same again, while Antonin Scalia, justice of the Supreme Court, said publicly that beatings and other forms of interrogation are acceptable when necessary by circumstances.
0 comments:
Post a Comment