If you suspend the Geneva Conventions, give the green light to anything that will get intelligence, round up thousands all over the globe with reckless disregard for guilt or innocence, you are effectively and knowingly issuing orders to seize innocent people and torture them. Any president who decides to do that and then says it was not his intention to do that is a fraud or a fool.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Suspending Geneva Conventions and rounding up people knowingly leads to torture and fraud.
- In plain terms
- Laws suspending Geneva Conventions result in innocent people being tortured.
- What can you take from it?
- Suspending human rights laws leads to innocent victims.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- What are the costs of suspending laws?
- How to balance security and rights?
Another view
National security may require some suspensions.
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