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From: barry levine
Date: Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 9:21 AM
Subject: re: Legacy of Torture
To: letters@nytimes.com
To the Editor:
From: barry levine
Date: Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 9:21 AM
Subject: re: Legacy of Torture
To: letters@nytimes.com
To the Editor:
When a human is tortured while in the custody of the United States of America, it taints more than his testimony; it taints our nation's soul. We the people are the collective sovereign here. We are not innocent of the crimes committed in our name by our public servants.
We may try to disown these horrors and to put them behind us through a Truth and Reconciliation process like that in South Africa. To hide them and their perpetrators behind a veil of "National Security" would be unacceptable to a legitimate democracy.
Barry Levine
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