Re: Glenn Greenwald

Although I can undertsnad why GOP Congressman Peter King "didn't feel that the Geneva Conventions 'applies to terrorists,'" I have to disagree with him and support Glenn Greenwald's arguement.
Our country has a Bill Of Rights; I have seen it in it's original form, I have read it, and I know what it means. One of the rights guaranteed in this document is the right to a speedy and fair trial. Unfortunately, when it comes to torture, this basic rights has been violated. Greenwald tells us that "most of all, never mind that King has no idea whether these people are actually "terrorists" because the people we tortured were never given trials, never proven to have done anything wrong, and in many cases were -- as federal courts have repeatedly found and as the CIA IG Report itself recognized -- completely innocent. "
The Bill of Rights also grants us the right to not be subjected to cruel and unusual punishment. When a terrorist is found to be guilty, I am not completely sure where I stand personally on the issue of torture, but when looking at the bigger picture I find that torture is not appropriate. I consider it to be a form of cruel and unusual punishment. There are reasons people commit crimes, and that's what needs to be corrected. Torture is not the way to go- all it does is harm their physical bodies. You want torture? Sentence them to Life in Prison. Create a law that allows it. Sitting in a cell, alone, for at least a month is enough to make someone go crazy. If you put a terrorist in a cell for his/her life, they'll be tortured. They'll be tortured by their own thoughts: remorse, revenge, depression- the types of things no one wants to bear for the rest of their lives.