The Founding Fathers Banned Torture ... Of course their ethics were superior to ours.

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/27429-why-the-founding-fathers-thought-banning-torture-foundational-to-the-us-constitution

It wasn't banned. It would have been mentioned in the Constitution had it bothered them enough.

This writer extrapolates "torture" being a part of the due process rights.

Of course the FF were slave owners too so I guess you agree with
That as well

If torture is the complete lack of liberty and inabliable rights... that's the direction our govt is heading.

Congratulations comrades.

"I have argued on many occasions that the language of patriotism and appeal to the Founding Fathers and the constitution must not be allowed to be appropriated by the political right wing in contemporary America, since for the most part right wing principles (privileging religion, exaltation of ‘whiteness’ over universal humanity, and preference for property rights over human rights) are diametrically opposed to the Enlightenment and Deist values of most of the framers of the Unites States."

Truer words have never been written.

Sal wrote:"I have argued on many occasions that the language of patriotism and appeal to the Founding Fathers and the constitution must not be allowed to be appropriated by the political right wing in contemporary America, since for the most part right wing principles (privileging religion, exaltation of ‘whiteness’ over universal humanity, and preference for property rights over human rights) are diametrically opposed to the Enlightenment and Deist values of most of the framers of the Unites States."

Truer words have never been written.

Who was the writer?

Wordslinger wrote:

Sal wrote:"I have argued on many occasions that the language of patriotism and appeal to the Founding Fathers and the constitution must not be allowed to be appropriated by the political right wing in contemporary America, since for the most part right wing principles (privileging religion, exaltation of ‘whiteness’ over universal humanity, and preference for property rights over human rights) are diametrically opposed to the Enlightenment and Deist values of most of the framers of the Unites States."

Truer words have never been written.

Who was the writer?

Juan Cole.

It's from your link.

lol

Sal wrote:

Wordslinger wrote:

Sal wrote:"I have argued on many occasions that the language of patriotism and appeal to the Founding Fathers and the constitution must not be allowed to be appropriated by the political right wing in contemporary America, since for the most part right wing principles (privileging religion, exaltation of ‘whiteness’ over universal humanity, and preference for property rights over human rights) are diametrically opposed to the Enlightenment and Deist values of most of the framers of the Unites States."

Truer words have never been written.

Who was the writer?

Juan Cole.

It's from your link.

lol

Ouch!