Torture is fashionable again? From the barroom stools to Republican debates, water-boarding and wherever the imagination wants to take you is becoming again legitimized as both moral and tool of intelligence gathering. Rick Santorum and his family values agenda is not OK with about every other behavior between consenting adults behind closed bedroom doors, but he wants to legitimize non-consensual actions of one human being with respect to another in White House sanctioned inquisitions employing God and country to justify. Read - "Guantanamo Stories - an American Tragedy" - diplomaticallyincorrect.org/films/blog_post/guantanamo-stories-an-american-tragedy-by-ambassador-mo/43471. Professor Cherif Bassiouni and I have known each other for around two decades. He was my personal attorney when I sat un-accused in a Federal hole and witnessed the more subtle forms of degradation and inhumanity to fellow prisoners. He documented the genocide in Bosnia & Herzegovina, we worked together in making the Rome Statue and International Criminal Court a reality. He helped define the crimes of Gaddafi and loyalists in Libya and sought to get Bahrain’s leaders to assume accountability. Read – “Excessive Force Bahrain – Bassiouni Commission” - diplomaticallyincorrect.org/films/blog_post/excessive-force-bahrain-bassiouni-commission-report-by-ambassador-mo/42028. Below is from a blog by Joe Scarry at OTAN Blog Spot - Read at - joescarry.blogspot.com/2012/01/chicago-manifesto-for-torture-free.html [The following was inspired by a conversation with Cherif Bassiouni and by testimony given at a hearing on Thursday, January 12, 2012, before the Committee on Human Relations of the City Council of the City of Chicago on a resolution to make Chicago a torture-free city.] (1) I pledge to work with others in my community to make MY community torture-free. (2) I pledge to encourage others to adopt the Manifesto, including working to make THEIR communities torture-free. (3) I recognize that the reason people engage in torture is, in general, NOT to obtain information, but to injure the bodies and minds of those they subject to torture, and to instill fear and to terrorize others. (4) A torture-free zone provides absolute rights of habeas corpus, and protects against indefinite detention. (5) A torture-free zone guarantees every person due process and a fair trial, without exception. To read More – Link - joescarry.blogspot.com/2012/01/chicago-manifesto-for-torture-free.html By Ambassador Muhamed Sacirbey Facebook = Become a Fan at “Diplomatically Incorrect” Twitter – Follow us at DiplomaticallyX War Crimes Justice Channel - diplomaticallyincorrect.org/c/war-crimes-justice FOLLOW Mo on Twitter - diplomaticallyincorrect.org/