Comments on: Shepard Smith Reports Truth About DHS Reports http://foxnewsboycott.com/shepard-smith/shepard-smith-reports-truth-about-dhs-reports/ FNC truth, lies and advertisers exposed! Tue, 31 Jan 2012 18:08:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: FoxNewsBoycott http://foxnewsboycott.com/shepard-smith/shepard-smith-reports-truth-about-dhs-reports/comment-page-1/#comment-69 FoxNewsBoycott Wed, 22 Apr 2009 21:12:11 +0000 http://foxnewsboycott.com/?p=276#comment-69 All respect to your cousin, but waterboarding is torture. Not only is it simulated drowning, but people can easily die while being waterboarded. The U.S. had approved of waterboarding and prisoners were waterboarded, thus the U.S. has tortured. Besides the fact that waterboarding had been prosecuted by the United States in war crimes trials after WWII...The United States is signatory to the United Nations Convention Against Torture, which concludes that international law permits no exception to it. The United States has also adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which also forbids torture. The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and Senior Medical Consultant to the International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims both agree that waterboarding be considered torture. In fact, the director of the Defense Intelligence Agency stated that it also violates Common Article 3 of the Geneva Convention. I could go on, but I really shouldn't need to... The funniest part about your rant is that you claim that waterboarding is not torture, but you think that Shepard Smith discussing the issue is torture... That doesn't seem too respectful of those who have been tortured, like your cousin. All respect to your cousin, but waterboarding is torture. Not only is it simulated drowning, but people can easily die while being waterboarded. The U.S. had approved of waterboarding and prisoners were waterboarded, thus the U.S. has tortured.

Besides the fact that waterboarding had been prosecuted by the United States in war crimes trials after WWII…The United States is signatory to the United Nations Convention Against Torture, which concludes that international law permits no exception to it. The United States has also adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which also forbids torture. The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and Senior Medical Consultant to the International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims both agree that waterboarding be considered torture. In fact, the director of the Defense Intelligence Agency stated that it also violates Common Article 3 of the Geneva Convention. I could go on, but I really shouldn’t need to…

The funniest part about your rant is that you claim that waterboarding is not torture, but you think that Shepard Smith discussing the issue is torture… That doesn’t seem too respectful of those who have been tortured, like your cousin.

]]> By: james Harper http://foxnewsboycott.com/shepard-smith/shepard-smith-reports-truth-about-dhs-reports/comment-page-1/#comment-68 james Harper Wed, 22 Apr 2009 20:45:46 +0000 http://foxnewsboycott.com/?p=276#comment-68 Mr. Smith, You are becoming as difficult to watch as MSNBC personalities. Today you introduced a two person panel discussing "torture". You introduced the "Pro Torture" guest as a conservative, and the New York Times Blah Blah as...a NYT BlahBlah. Your disconnect is disheartening, and not worthy of fair and balanced. And your position defining the U.S. as a "Country that has tortured" (yes, we all saw how clever you were in your phrasing) is a blatant lie, and your opinion belongs on the pages of the NYT or MSNBC, where your slants and distortions would fit right in. Note: my cousin was tortured in a war back a ways, and I can assure you what our people did was not torture. No one died, no one lost a limb, or their teeth, or nails, or their life. What you are doing, however, is. Thank you. James Harper Mr. Smith,
You are becoming as difficult to watch as MSNBC personalities. Today you introduced a two person panel discussing “torture”. You introduced the “Pro Torture” guest as a conservative, and the New York Times Blah Blah as…a NYT BlahBlah.
Your disconnect is disheartening, and not worthy of fair and balanced. And your position defining the U.S. as a “Country that has tortured” (yes, we all saw how clever you were in your phrasing) is a blatant lie, and your opinion belongs on the pages of the NYT or MSNBC, where your slants and distortions would fit right in.
Note: my cousin was tortured in a war back a ways, and I can assure you what our people did was not torture. No one died, no one lost a limb, or their teeth, or nails, or their life. What you are doing, however, is.

Thank you.
James Harper

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