What sort of people are we?

[LeahMira]

http://www.amnestyusa.org/countries/usa/document.do?id=F7CE0B13E65E100085256DF00050B882

A new Amnesty International report charges that in 2002, the Bush Administration violated the spirit of its own export policy and approved the sale of equipment implicated in torture to Yemen, Jordan, Morocco and Thailand, despite the countries' documented use of such weapons to punish, mistreat and inflict torture on prisoners. The US is also alleged to have handed suspects in the 'war on terror' to the same countries.

The total value of US exports of electro-shock weapons was $14.7 million in 2002 and exports of restraints totaled $4.4 million in the same period. The Commerce and State Departments approved these sales, permitting 45 countries to purchase electro-shock technology, including 19 that had been cited for the use of such weapons to inflict torture since 1990.



We speak in horror of Saddam's "rape rooms" and "torture chambers" while we stock them? Why don't the people hear of these things? I find myself at a loss for words here.....

[camero]

1. This must be exposed

We are also the largest arms dealer in the world.

[beanball]

2. One of the founding fathers said

"I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just and that His justice will not sleep forever." Thomas Jefferson

[G_j]

3. what next?

no evil suprises any more.

[Rose Siding]

4. CNN/Time covered it in 1998!

I was searching for details on Nova Products, the only company I saw named in the AI article, and ran across this.

Weapons of Torture
A TIME investigation turns up evidence of loose controls and U.S. companies' shipping stun guns to countries that practice torture

http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1998/03/31/time/weapons.html

[Tinoire]

5. Book-marked- thank you. The hypocrisy is staggering. n/t