Rohrabacher, supporter of torture

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(Via Think Progress)

Last week, a House Foreign Affairs subcommittee held a hearing on the Bush administration’s practice of extraordinary rendition, whereby hundreds of “terror suspects who had never been indicted for any crimes” have been abducted and flown to either secret agency prisons or to foreign countries such as Egypt or Syria where they are tortured.

Throughout the hearing, Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) aggressively defended the U.S. rendition program and attacked the witnesses, three members of the European parliament, who testified that rendition actually hinders prosecutions of terrorists.

Rohrabacher told the witnesses that Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann would still be alive if they were in charge. He said the witnesses were free to doubt the motives of U.S. rendition since “I know there’s a lot of people who hate America.”

At one point, Rohrabacher argued that imprisoning and torturing one innocent person was a fair price to pay for locking up 50 terrorists who would “go out and plant a bomb…and kill 20,000 people.” When members of the audience groaned, Rohrabacher said, “Well, I hope it’s your families, I hope it’s your families that suffer the consequences.”

One member of the audience was Army Col. Ann Wright, who served 13 years on active duty and 16 years in the U.S. Army Reserves. “After 16 years in the US diplomatic corps, she resigned in March 2003 in opposition to the war on Iraq.” Wright rose to protest Rohrabacher’s remarks but was quickly removed from the hearing room.

Yeah, let's not have anyone stand up for the principles of this nation while one of our elected representatives is tearing them down. Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't the members of Congress supposed to UPHOLD the Constitution? Don't they take an oath to that effect? This idiot Rohrabacher is the real danger to our country. He is the real Nazi here, defending torture as a method of protecting freedoms he doesn't even want to have others exercise. Thank God for people like Col. Wright. She knows what the oath she took means about preserving and upholding the Constitution. Rohrabacher should be ashamed of himself, but these assholes seem to be totally without shame.

Torture is not and should never be an American value.