The CIA secret prisons go far beyond any morally acceptable prison related practice. Viable reports indicate many CIA prisoners are held without contact with anyone other than their keepers, are deprived of sleep and alternately deprived of sensory input and then given sensory input beyond the ability of the brain and senses to handle, are held on suspicion rather than known fact, are shipped to countries and placed in the custody of officials of those countries where they are tortured or killed, and receive other immoral treatment. There are but a few morally acceptable basis upon which an individual may be imprisoned. Criminals pending trial and upon conviction for crimes which constitute immoral acts may be imprisoned as may be actual enemy combatants and their non combatant leaders. Provisions must be made for prisoners’ basic human needs and these provisions must never be withheld no matter what the provocation. Contact with other humans is one of these basic human needs. Maintaining contact with the solar day in a manner sufficient to maintain the individual’s internal clock is another of these basic human needs. It is even possible to make a valid moral argument for imprisonment of known terrorist under the umbrella concept of terrorism being a form of war, and therefore actual terrorist may possibly be morally imprisoned for life if the duration of the terrorist war is indefinite. But it is impossible to morally justify more than the most brief imprisonment of persons suspected of terrorism, and even the most brief imprisonment is difficult to morally justify. Any imprisonment which is found to be unwarranted morally mandates the most extreme compensation possible, for unwarranted imprisonment violates one of the most basic rights given by God. Note well that the term used is unwarranted, and not unjustified, for it is possible to justify immorality in some minds but it is impossible to warrant the unwarranted. It always is immoral to treat anyone in an immoral manner, whether the individual be the most vile criminal, the most vile government official, the most vile soldier, the most vile terrorist, or the most holy saint. Killing a terrorist who is about to kill so that he can not kill usually and generally is not considered to be immoral. One may never use the immoral practices of the terrorist, not even in self defense.
Justice Clarence Thomas has written his memoirs in "My Grandfather’s Son". The Los Angeles Times review of the book glosses over the good example the Justice’s grandparents gave him, and the foundation he received from the Church, and utilized a full half of a newspaper page to chastise the Justice for not siding with the poor in his decisions. Absolutely no mention is made in the review of his support for the rule of law, that law must be founded in the controlling legal document of The United States of America, The Constitution of The United States of America, and his avoidance of usurping the authority of the House and Senate - the legislative branches of the government of The United States of America. Perhaps the review chastises the Justice because he refuses to legislate; or perhaps it chastises him because he acknowledges God as being the highest authority, even higher than the sinful desires of humans.
Actress Halle Berry commented on the Oprah Winfrey show, on her attempts to be come pregnant through constant sexual intercourse with her boyfriend. The interview elicited only sounds of sympathy, and not one single comment on the immorality of sexual intercourse outside of marriage. Society’s acceptance of sexual intercourse without the benefit of marriage continues the destruction of the basic building block of society, that of the family. It induces continued immoral conduct which is soul damming. The lack of chastisement by Oprah Winfrey is indicative of her lack of moral values. The open admission of immoral sexual conduct by Halle Berry is indicative of her lack of moral values. These open declarations of their own immoral values should be an inducement for every person who claims any moral standards, to avoid shows, movies, and anything in any manner associated with Halle Berry or Oprah Winfrey, so that the moral individual does nothing which will assist these two people to continue to engage in their immoral activities, and their promotion of such immoral activities.
A new test indicates whether or not “test tube babies” have defects so those with defects can be killed before being implanted in the womb. Because current technology only screens a few chromosomes, “thousands of women and babies are at risk every year,” said Pamela Madsen, executive director of the American Fertility Association. Madsen and her coven must be delighted at having a new reason for killing thousands if not millions of babies every year through a process which rejects what they will term defective babies. Is it possible these people will attempt to allow the defective babies to grow so their body parts can be collected?
Global Warming is causing the climate in Greenland to return to that state which existed before the Little Ice Age of the sixteenth century (after 1500 A.D.). Logic demands one therefore acknowledge the planet was much warmer five hundred years ago, than it is today, and that global warming is at least in part returning the planet to a more traditional temperature. Historical documents and examination of deep soil samples both indicate Greenland was much warmer for many thousands of years prior to the Little Ice Age which began in the sixteenth century. With the increase in temperature Greenland's forests are regenerating and son will provide a source of logs and lumber, more varieties of crops are being commercially grown enabling Greenlanders to provide their own sustenance, fisheries are increasing in productivity with the same positive effect on self-sustenance. Since the past few hundred years of cooler world wide temperatures obviously are an abnormality, does not the warming of the planet indicate a return to more traditional world wide temperatures? Is not there also therefore a doubt cast upon the reasons for the current global warming, considering the fact that no viable and valid reason for the earlier global cooling of the Little Ice Age has been presented, nor has there been presented any viable and valid reason presented for the warm temperatures which preceded the Little Ice Age nor for the extensive period of time during which these warmer temperatures were the norm, nor for what ever was the cause thousands of years before that warm period for the change from cooler temperatures to warmer temperatures. Yes, there must be concern for those land areas which may or will be inundated by seas rising because of melting ice caps and glaciers. But there are positive effects of global warming. And logic must be used in the process of ascertaining the causes of global warming and cooling, and not a consensus opinion process. Facts related to cause and effect must be established and not just surmised. An example of the error which comes from presumption is the often stated opinion that ships at sea in the era before the sextant stayed close to shore so-as-to be sure of navigation. This simply is not true. Any sailor knows the closer a ship is to the shore, the greater the danger of foundering, of ship wreck. Ships therefore stayed far away from the shore, keeping the shore out of sight. Keeping the shore line in sight also increases the distance the ship must travel, thus increasing travel time and costs. Ships traversed the oceans in as straight a line as possible, using the stars and general sun position to navigate, just as did travelers in the desert and other places where there are no or few distinguishing earthbound markers.
A United States Senate resolution calls for partition of Iraq into regions according to religious and ethnic divisions. This resolution ignores the fact that Iraq is a separate, independent country; that it is not a part of The United States of America (for which Americans should be most thankful); and numerous other facts including the fact that most Iraqis do not desire their country to be partitioned. Arrogance obviously was a factor in the invasion of Iraq by the United States and the United Nations approved “Coalition”. That arrogance should not be continued, especially not in the manner proposed by the United States Senate.
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