Archive for Tuesday, March 29, 2005
Henri E. Stetter: Sending violence
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Outsourcing has become a major topic of discussion and disagreement in this country in the past year or so.
Outsourcing business services is part of free enterprise and in the American spirit of doing business and making more money.
The U.S. military forces have been doing their bit of outsourcing, too. CIA officers have been caught while working on programs that turn suspected terrorists over to other nations for "questioning."
Torture then would be the ultimate service to "outsource."
The refusal to respect the human rights of others is the first dangerous and slippery step toward totalitarianism.
One of the reasons that the British Empire gave up India was the concern at home about the way India was being run: Methods were used that would have been completely illegal in Britain. The main concern was about the lawbreakers from India returning and becoming the lawmakers at home.
Totalitarianism demands that some people are stripped of their rights. Nazi Germany started by stripping the Jews of their rights.
It is very worrying that people shipped overseas for questioning are not even called prisoners. They are deprived of all of their rights. They are denied of all of the basic rights that make America the bastion of democracy that it is supposed to be.
Religious fanaticism and totalitarianism that breed the kind of terrorism that we are facing cannot be defeated by showing the same kind of primitive behavior.
Henri E. Stetter
Steamboat Springs
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