{"id":4668,"date":"2006-03-17T22:07:13","date_gmt":"2006-03-17T22:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=4668"},"modified":"2025-09-25T14:47:22","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T14:47:22","slug":"state_departmen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=4668","title":{"rendered":"State Department Human Rights report and Congressional Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here is an interesting article from National Review Online Nina Shea on Human Rights on National Review Online<\/a> <\/p>\n

Here’s a quote: "This annual exercise \u2014 the State Department\u2019s issuance of the "Country Reports," and the congressional hearings that review them \u2014 is uniquely American. No other nation produces anything comparable."<\/em><\/p>\n

Ahhh, you say! Isn’t this the pot calling the kettle black? What about our human rights abuses? Good point. Here’s an article from yesterday’s Washington Post Military Lawyers Say Tactics Broke Rules<\/a> in which all sorts of military lawyers are critical of over the top Guantanamo interrogation techniques. <\/p>\n

Here’s a quote: "the lawyers wrote that forcing a detainee to wear a woman’s bra and thong underwear on his head, insulting a detainee’s mother and sister, calling a detainee a homosexual and implying that others know he is a homosexual, forcing a detainee to perform dog tricks, and forcing a detainee to stand naked in the presence of female soldiers would not be consistent with the Army’s policy."<\/em><\/p>\n

Now this is degrading, stupid, inhumane, and shouldn’t be tolerated. I’m glad it was dug up by internal investigations. The perpetrators should be punished. But it’s not torture. The Falun Gong religious sect in China would find this preferable to psychotropic drugs and electroshock.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here is an interesting article from National Review Online Nina Shea on Human Rights on National Review Online Here’s a quote: "This annual exercise \u2014 the State Department\u2019s issuance of the "Country Reports," and the congressional hearings that review them \u2014 is uniquely American. No other nation produces anything comparable." Ahhh, you say! Isn’t this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4668"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9773,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4668\/revisions\/9773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}