Call Their Bluff; Geneva Convention on Terror Wars

[originalpckelly]

If the Bush administration really thinks that GITMO is okay, let the world start an international convention which is specifically designed to help in the war on terror. Item 1: No torturing suspects; or any other form of "coerced interrogation." This could be a Democratic Party talking point and would make the Bush administration look terrible. Can you imagine an international convention where the Bush administration would have to defend torture? These should be the rules:

A consensus must be reached by all parties to the convention if taking away rights of prisoners. A simple majority should be required to give people more rights. This way if state sponsors of terror and torture want to take away rights they will be at a disadvantage. States that want to give rights will be advantaged. This is actually how the new human rights council should work at the U.N. but whatever.

This way the administration can no longer claim that international law doesn't apply to terror suspects. (We must restrain ourselves in our language they have not been proved terrorists yet; "accusation is not proof and conviction depends upon evidence and due process of law"--Edward R. Murrow, See It Now, Senator McCarthy Program)