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Public Opinion on Torture, the Iraq War, and Civil Liberties, New findings from Retro Poll
BERKELEY -- May 5 -- In a series of polls by Retro Poll 72-89 percent of the American public consistently opposed the use of torture by the U.S. government. A recent poll by the Gallup organization confirmed these results.
In a new poll completed May 1st Retro Poll has found that 67.3 percent of those polled knew torture is against U.S. laws and a war crime. But many people remained unaware that their government is systematically employing torture. For example, only 32.7 percent had seen media reports that the U.S. was "rendering" captives, sending them to be tortured by outlaw governments, whose practices the U.S. supposedly abhors; and less than half (47.3 percent) knew that the International Red Cross issued a secret report to the government, later leaked to the press, that accused the U.S. of systematic use of torture at Guantanamo. Indeed 58 percent of those questioned believed that the torture so far exposed is the result of "a few bad apples".
http://www.commondreams.org/news2005/0505-14.htm
---And on a personal note...I am sick and tired of reminding people that TORTURE IS WRONG....To Torture, not to Torture...HOW IN THE FUCK is that even the question?.....And to those who say, "Well some people just deserve to be tortured"...I want to know...Are YOU volunteering to do the torturing OR, to be the tortured...? ...YEAH thats what I thought.---
BERKELEY -- May 5 -- In a series of polls by Retro Poll 72-89 percent of the American public consistently opposed the use of torture by the U.S. government. A recent poll by the Gallup organization confirmed these results.
In a new poll completed May 1st Retro Poll has found that 67.3 percent of those polled knew torture is against U.S. laws and a war crime. But many people remained unaware that their government is systematically employing torture. For example, only 32.7 percent had seen media reports that the U.S. was "rendering" captives, sending them to be tortured by outlaw governments, whose practices the U.S. supposedly abhors; and less than half (47.3 percent) knew that the International Red Cross issued a secret report to the government, later leaked to the press, that accused the U.S. of systematic use of torture at Guantanamo. Indeed 58 percent of those questioned believed that the torture so far exposed is the result of "a few bad apples".
http://www.commondreams.org/news2005/0505-14.htm
---And on a personal note...I am sick and tired of reminding people that TORTURE IS WRONG....To Torture, not to Torture...HOW IN THE FUCK is that even the question?.....And to those who say, "Well some people just deserve to be tortured"...I want to know...Are YOU volunteering to do the torturing OR, to be the tortured...? ...YEAH thats what I thought.---
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