...Torture For the Better The War on Terror began on September 11th, 2001, with the terrorist attack now simply referred to as 9/11. Not only have American soldiers captured countless Islamic terrorists since, but also a leader, Saddam Hussein. By battling with Iraq and Afghanistan, the United States (U.S.) has captured thousands of prisoners with the potential knowledge of upcoming terror attacks. These prisoners have been notoriously known for their intelligence of Al Qaeda operations, and the location of terrorist headquarters. When a capture is publicized, terrorists have the ability to quickly change locations and communication methods. Therefore, the intelligence available from the prisoners is only good for a short period of time. To gather the information while it is useful, should Americans be provided leniency in torturing these prisoners? To prevent future terrorism, should we be able to implement the torture that has been used by some terrorists themselves? In truth, America already has. Several doctors working for the U.S. Military violated the “ethical codes” of their profession. After a thorough investigation, it has been concluded that after 9/11, health professionals who worked with the military “designed and participated in cruel, inhumane, and degrading treatment and torture of detainees,” (Boseley, 1). The only question now is: were these actions justified? Torture has been defined in U.S. courts as anything that “shocks the conscience,” (“The Debate” 4). In...
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...slave; thus, revealing his response towards key issues that perpetuated throughout the novel. Northup was able to explore the fundamental issue of the role of female slaves during the post-colonial period in America, specifically the sexual exploitation of female slaves. Northup’s persona towards the dire treatment of black female slaves is that of extreme animosity and disgust. His stance against female marginalisation was presented through the use of stylistic features; namely, the inherent employment of figurative language when discussing...
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...cruel or unusual punishment. Why should we do this what are the real consequences of leaving it as it is? Civilized society? Although we do not and poor medieval torture...
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...Torture and Terrorism. On September 11, 2001, the U.S. was attacked by the terrorist group Al-Qaida. Terrorists hijacked four airplanes and carried out attack against targets in the United States. September 11 attack resulted in the loss of almost three thousand people, and caused at least ten billion dollars of damage on infrastructure and property. Following the terrorist attack of September 11, 2001, the United States of America, which was the number one defender of human rights around the world faced questions about the use of torture to obtain confessions. The debates over torture’s legitimacy created two groups, one defending the use of torture to save innocent people’s lives,...
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...The Morality of Torture The authority of using torture as a punishment in the past has been a cause for conflict. Today, some people see torture as an efficient form of punishment; they believe it is especially necessary in the treatment of terrorist prisoners or prisoners for the purpose of pulling information. Some writers make up fake situations to blow the advantages of torture out of proportion, claiming that it is danger free, low cost and useful for getting fast response. However, after carefully thinking through the arguments used by many torture supporters, one will figure out that the arguments of torture supporters are false. Writers who support torture show less logic, but rather offended anger to evil violence. The use of torture as а form of punishment should be prohibited because contrary to the arguments of torture supporters, it does not serve а purpose, is against international law, and will only perpetuate hatred and retaliation. (Davis) According to, the International Statuette, Torture is any kind of use of force, mental or physical used on a human being to gain third party information or self-confession. No country prefers to use it but is forced to do in order to safeguard the lives of its citizens and smoothen justice. (Greenberg) Most criminal suspects go through some level of torture. Torture may involve Physical methods like starvation, beatings, burning, sodomy as well as psychological methods such as verbal abuse, solitary confinement, and sleep...
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...right of a life free from torture or punishment and the right not to be subjected to any cruel or inhumane behaviour, in my view Capital Punishment blatantly violates these rights. Capital Punishment or better known as ‘The Death Penalty’ is a concept that for most of us is hard to grasp, how does one justify and actively carry out killing a person because they’ve killed another person when we believe that action is wrong. Where do we draw the line when it’s right or wrong to kill another human being? The Death Penalty is the ultimate punishment, both psychologically and physically, thus proving to us as humans that we are in breach of our essential rights as a human being and are still enabling countries to carry out this action. While Australia and numerous other countries have abolished the Death Penalty there are plenty of countries that still uphold the belief that it is a justifiable action and is morally right. The American state of California currently has over 700 prisoners on death row, one of these prisoners a 55-year-old man named Kevin Cooper states “Between the moment we are sentenced and our death date, we die a profound psychological and spiritual death. It is a living death”, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week this human being is being psychologically tortured by the impending threat of death, a death that some believe is a avenging and logical and moral way of punishing a human being. It is hard to believe that a country such as America “a country that claims to...
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...Council’s lack of effort, and Russia and China's support for North Korea. First, human rights abuses in North Korea include heinous prison conditions, starvation, sexual assault, and forced disappearances, over all resulting in Crimes Against Humanity as declared by the UN Human Rights Council ("North Korea: UN Commission Documents Wide-Ranging and Ongoing Crimes Against Humanity, Urges Referral to ICC."). These human rights abuses occur as a result of the unfair and abusive leadership of North Korea. Although denied by North Korea, satellite images prove political concentrations camps (Marszal), in which political prisoners are inhumanely treated. People are sent to the concentration camps as a result of, “threats to the regime, no matter how minor or unfounded, [include]: hints of dissatisfaction, ungratefulness, individuality, or the non-reporting of family or neighbors exhibiting signs of defection” (North Korea Now). Rather than sending solely the guilty to the concentration camps, the North Korean government sends the guilty and their entire family on the basis...
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...Waterboarding, sleep deprivation, and dietary manipulation. Those three techniques is just a few examples of a long list of ways people have been tortured, or in some cases interrogated. The use of torture, or enhanced interrogation techniques have been a big controversy in the United States. It does not change the way society and economic powers in the world basically encourage the use of these techniques, no matter how many people say that it is terrible or unjust. About 3,000 casualties happened on 9/11 (9/11 Attacks), 12 deaths during the Charlie Hebdo shooting (Hebdo Shooting), and there were 31 victims and at least 100 other people wounded in an attack in Turkey (CNN). Thus being capable to catch, capture, or do away with said government’s hateful groups dead set against them is needed. Torture to some people is a means of preventing terrorism....
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...A topic that caused a big trouble for the people of the 1800s was slavery. Slavery had been a significant part of culture way before America was “discovered” and was considered “an age-old tradition” (Slave Revolts). For this reason, Americans, especially in the south, owned numerous slaves whom they considered their property. They would acquire them after they were taken captive and force them to do all the work for no benefits except their life. In fact, their owners took even their life as they were beaten on a daily basis and killed. Despite the budding efforts to end slavery by some abolitionists, slavery was too popular in the south. Slaves weren’t given the rights that the American citizens had and were treated not as people but property....
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...that of the Iraqi correctional systems. This paper will show the differences in the two. It will also show how the American correctional system is run in comparison to that of the Iraqi correctional system. The American correctional system is set up with different types of prisons. Most prisons are run by the state government although the United States does have federal prisons. The federal prisons are run by the federal government. In the United States, prisons are operated at various levels of security, ranging from minimum-security prisons that mainly house non-violent offenders to Supermax facilities that house well-known criminals and terrorists (DeMaille, 2007). In the United States, prisons house more than two million prisoners. The majority of criminals in the prison system are because of drugs and violent crimes. As of the end of August 2010, there were approximately 210,000 prisoners in federal prisons with about half of those for drug related crimes (BOP, 2010). In the United States there are two well-known federal penitentiaries. They are Alcatraz, which is closed, and the Leavenworth Penitentiary in Kansas. The biggest drug related crimes is transporting illegal drugs across state lines. Prior to the American Revolution, the American prisons were not used for punishment, there were used mainly for executions and physical torture. They built prison walls to keep the prisoners in and to keep the public from seeing what was going on inside...
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...When the United States decided to declare war on terror, our country drastically shifted from a democracy to a country filled with hate. Since the tragic terrorist attack of 9/11, as a country; we took a huge step back by creating this norm of hatred and is similar to how our country was during the Star Chamber. This attack changed the way our nation saw what was normal and what was unconstitutional. Not only did this start a generation that flourishes with these beliefs that all Muslims were terrorists and also as a country that promoted torture. Many different aspects changed how the criminal justice system’s function was originally meant to do. The attack rebirthed the old stigma our nation has decades ago of racial profiling being a norm....
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...The factors that are considered inhumane is inmates having to sleep in tents in Arizona weather. Arizonan's highest weather temperature is 128 degrees according to the national climate data center (Sandbox Networks, 2016). The highest temperature in summer in these living conditions is 140 degrees. Sheriff Joe Arpaio believes "that tent city's environment punishes inmates and teaches them a lesson" (Simpson, 2012). He also, stated "he will go to his grave before he lets an inmate out for early release" (Arizona's Tent City, 2012) My response to Joe Arpaio would be how could you treat a human being so harshly yes by eliminating sugar, salt, pepper and coffee have reduced annual cost by $650,000 and these strict rules have eliminated the crime rate but what...
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...The Whipping Boy By Richard Gibney In the late 1800 a violent and comprehensive civil war began in the United States of America after Abraham Lincoln supported banning slavery. The war was a conflict between the Union in the North and the Confederacy in the South, Non-slavery against slavery. One of the most significant events in the history of the United States. The North was fighting to end slavery and protect the Union. Richard Gibney addresses the controversial subject slavery in his short story ”The Whipping Boy” that takes place in the end of the American Civil War where slavery was abolished. ”The Whipping Boy” starts in medias res in a slave plantation in the southern part of America around the late 1800 (1864-1865). The reader is introduced to three slaves: Martha, Mikey and Tommy. They work and live at a plantation owned by their masters: Old Mrs. Gage, who is very sick and cries bitter tears over her husband’s death and the young First Lieutenant in the Confederate army, Sterling Gage, who has been in battle at the front for a year. The plot takes off when the three slaves are informed that slavery has been abolished: ”It was the day after the boy from the Union had come to the farm to let the slaves know they were freemen”. The action rises as the slaves are declared freemen and decide to travel to the north and get jobs. ”Then they could all go North, Mikey, his new wife and his brother, all working for wages in the city.” They had stopped working in the...
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...white slave master Every day I dong on knees Weeks and weeks before we cross de seas to reach in de West Indies” ----- Slinger Francisco aka The Mighty Sparrow I must begin by saying how heartbroken I was on reading the suffering and mistreatment my people ordained back in the days of Slavery. Coming from a family that is mostly comprised of African descent individuals; it makes me sad and in utter repugnance. It's funny how life back then still influences the way my people think and approach their education, family, and general lifestyle. Slavery has definitely placed a scar on the mentality of not just the black community but of all races that have been a part of this. To me the black man went through the most because he was taken away from his land by fellow men or by the white man without having any say. The differences between the Africans and the Indians are that the Indians were brought here voluntarily; on the other hand the black man was violently brought here to be slaves. The “Black” man therefore was stripped of his family, pride, love ones and home. When one hears about slavery; the mind automatically thinks of the white man abusing the black man. There is so much more to slavery than just the inhumane acts that the African man was victim of. It was stages of torture that has the black man the way he is today. Slavery has definitely marked the black community when it comes to family life. Most children of African descended parents end up being a part...
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...written by Professor Alan Dershowitz. Then identify and describe the critical issues addressed in the article. In your paper, thoroughly discuss and evaluate the following concepts: the ticking time bomb hypothesis; Dershowitz's comments regarding Jeremy Bentham as well as his comments about Voltaire's views; and the three ways to deal with the use of torture in the ticking time bomb situation, as stated by the Israeli government-appointed commission of the late 1980s. As part of the discussion about the commission's conclusions, include Dershowitz's "fourth road." Abstract After the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack on America, numerous articles and books were published. These articles and books analyzed why the 9/11 attack happened and proposed solutions on how to prevent terrorist attacks in the future. Alan Dershowitz contributed to this body of literature from a lawyer's perspective in his book titled Why Terrorism Works: Understanding the Threat, Responding to the Challenge. In an article from the book titled, Should the Ticking Time Bomb Terrorist Be Tortured, many of his suggestions such as the use of torture, are rather controversial; however, Dershowitz encourages people to rethink current notions of security, liberty, and international law. Alan Dershowitz acknowledges that he is not an expert on terrorism; his opinions, suggestions and methods in his articles and books were written using his lifetime of experience in crime and violence from the perspective...
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