Democrats Agree To Cover Up Future TortureMay 20, 2009 is a sad day in the history of the Democratic Party. It is the day that the Democratic Party became the party of torture and secrecy.On May 20, 2009, the United States Senate passed amendment 1157 to H.R. 2346 (a military appropriations bill to spend almost a hundred billion dollars on war). Amendment 1157, which some call the Censorship of Photographs of Future Torture Amendment, gave the Secretary of Defense the power to conceal photographic evidence of torture from the American people, undermining the Freedom of Information Act in order to do so. This pro-torture, pro-censorship legislation doesn't just apply to the particular set of torture photographs that President Obama decided to keep secret from the American people. It applies to any photographs of torture by the U.S. military taken since 2001. Most importantly, amendment 1157 gives the Secretary of Defense the power to conceal photographic evidence of future acts of torture. The legislation allows the government to legally keep secret from us acts of torture that haven't even take place yet. It's a cover-up bill that actually encourages torture by giving perpetrators in the military the assurance that their sadistic activities will never be revealed. Republicans voted for this pro-torture legislation. We would expect that. The truth is that Democrats voted for it too. A lot of Democrats voted for it. Not one Democratic senator voted against amendment 1157. We once believed that government secrecy and torture were Republican policies that the Democrats would act quickly to end. Now, on the morning of May 21, 2009, we can see that torture is a core value of the Democratic Party as well. |
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