NYT takes on the crooked and insane Supremes, USDOJ
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Subject: NYT takes on the crooked and insane Supremes, USDOJ
Date: Jun 25, 2010 6:20 AM
"The notion of doctors and other health professionals using their
knowledge in any way to abuse prisoners is horrifying." -- NYT, Below
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"Supreme Court ruling makes ‘it a crime to work for peace and human
rights’: CCR"
http://groups.google.com/group/sci.med.diseases.lyme/browse_thread/thread/fd588ab25cee5882?hl=en#
Treating Scientific Fraud/Crime/ Accidental-
Releasing US/Israeli Bioweaponeers like
Soviet Russia treated her "dissidents"
(human rights workers):
http://groups.google.com/group/sci.med.diseases.lyme/browse_thread/thread/de69d71d57322e59?hl=en#
http://groups.google.com/group/sci.med.diseases.lyme/browse_thread/thread/58f2ad177e6a3fc6?hl=en#
http://www.actionlyme.org/USDOJ_COMPLAINT_RICO.htm
The United States currently has
the characteristics of Stalinist Russia
*and* NAZI Germany, but the Supremes say
any dissent from this vicious, insane
formulary is a crime ??
NYT says, "Bringit!"
KMDickson
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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/25/opinion/25fri2.html?hpw=&pagewanted=print
Do No Harm
Health professionals who facilitate torture are violating the most
fundamental medical ethics and ought to be punished. Unfortunately,
neither Congress nor the Obama administration has shown any appetite
for confronting the problem. The New York State Legislature is
considering a state law that would bar such misbehavior and provide
grounds for revoking the license of any health professional who
participates.
The International Committee of the Red Cross and Physicians for Human
Rights have presented persuasive evidence that the Bush administration
used medical personnel to help shape and justify the Central
Intelligence Agency’s “enhanced interrogation” techniques. There is no
evidence, so far, that medical personnel conducted the torture.
Doctors, psychologists and physicians’ assistants helped determine how
far a harsh technique — waterboarding, prolonged sleep deprivation,
shackling in stressful positions — could go without killing or
inflicting extreme pain.
They helped plan how various methods could be used in combination,
calibrated the levels of pain and monitored the proceedings. Their
involvement was apparently intended to provide legal cover for
interrogators who, if they were ever prosecuted, could always argue
that medical professionals monitored and judged their techniques as
safe. The notion of doctors and other health professionals using their
knowledge in any way to abuse prisoners is horrifying.
Bills to hold health professionals accountable have been introduced in
both houses of the Legislature.
The Assembly’s bill, which has 45 co-sponsors and could be voted on as
soon as Friday, would bar all health professionals licensed in New
York from participating, directly or indirectly, in torture or other
abuses no matter where they happen. They would have a duty to refuse
to participate in torture and also to report abusive practices to
appropriate authorities. Violators could be convicted of misdemeanors
and subjected to professional misconduct proceedings that could lead
to censure and suspension or revocation of a license.
We recognize that, if interrogation materials are kept classified, it
could be difficult for state licensing boards to ascertain what role
health professionals might have played — and for accused professionals
to defend themselves. It would be far better to conduct investigations
and mete out punishments at the national level.
There is no sign of that happening any time soon. The New York State
Legislature should approve the bill. It could deter some unethical
conduct, give health professionals added reasons to reject and report
abusive interrogations, and exert pressure on the federal government
to declassify more material. It would also serve as a model for other
states to fill the void until Congress and the Obama administration
step up to their responsibilities.
"[Real] scientists are *fiercely* independent. That's the good
news."-- NIH's Top Fool, Anthony Fauci