Not In My Name follow up

Due to the comments made, I am making this follow up posting. Firstly, I am more than aware the President Obama has only been in office for seventeen days, and thus far they have been an impressive seventeen. Therefore, it may well be that in time his administration may tackle this shameful period in American history. Equally I firmly believe that the British government was and has been a willing partner in the breaking of international laws on torture.

While I do worry about the state of democracy in Britain, I am at least grateful that I do live in a democratic nation where there is a free judiciary that can speak out and expose when our government does breech the law. I personally cannot ever see the justification for torture. Apart from any other reason, it simply does not work. Any information gained from torture will always be tainted and the victim will often say what they think the torturer wants to hear to stop the punishment and pain. However, more importantly we debase ourselves by practicing or condoning it.

As the terrorist threat is based upon a difference in Ideology, the real way of defeating terrorism is by showing the rest of the world that we are better than the terrorists. That we have higher moral standards and will not debase our ethics, that way we stop our actions acting as a recruiting sergeant for warped standards of the terrorist.

I have no doubt that if the secret documents were released, they would as damaging for the current British Government as they would be for the previous American one.

The only way to detain and punish terrorists is by using the law and courts. By treating anyone suspected of terrorism in a way that is unfair and unjust, harms our freedoms more than any action the terrorists could take.