Us government accepts torture ban

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After the congress with coarse majority approved the torture ban, the house is no longer threatened with a Veto in the woman and seems to be the inevitable; However, the torture ban could not be worth much if that "Graham Amendment" Is accepted

US vice-Prassident Cheney had to prefabricate the prasident himself, who has always been wearing the torture for some time that the torture is not practiced by US belongings, even if this was not so difficult with the narrow torture term. Cheney should try to pierced and tortured by the Republican Senator John McCain, who had been in captivity in the Vietnam’s war, proposed torture ban at least for CIA-belongings. Apparently, however, the sometimes violent discussion of recent times in the US-friendly countries over the CIA activities and the prere outstanding from the US Congress, Prasident Bush accepted the torture ban now.

However, the regulation is not law with the agreement. And the torture ban could again be partially occupied by an additional addition adopted by the Senate, which cement the legal nobody country in Guantanamo and US religious "enemy camphor" Mistrade, protect was (legalization of Guantanamo).

With the overwhelming majority, the torture ban had been adopted some time ago in the American Senate. McCain from which the initiative comes from, in addition to the moral rearance, above all, it also went to free the USA again a stucco from the negative image in which it has been spated since the Abu Ghraib scandal. Although the Pentagon had already adopted a new Code for Militaranhorigen, after which the torture is prohibited. But here many loophole remained open.

However, the Senator wanted to see the ban clearly and unmisturly formulated for all agents of the US government and fed a corresponding addition to the Department of Defense Appropriations ACT 2006. After this, it is forbidden to treat people who are in American detention in the US and abroad, to treat inhumane, degrading or cruel. And the rules carried out in the Army Field Manual are based on all auspices to avoid ambigeability in the future. The most important PAS:

No Individual In The Custody Or United The Physical Control of the United States Government, Regardless of Nationality Or Physical Location, Shalle Be Subject to Cruel, Inhuman, OR Degrading Treatment Or Punishment.

After the senators amed the addition with a rough majority, the Bush government threatened with a Veto of the Budget Act of the Pentagon and sent Cheney to encourage an exception at least for intelligence attendants (US government wants an exception of the threatening torture for the CIA).

McCain but remained steadfast. Then the discussion came across transport of traversed, CIA fishing and torture, which further undermined the reputation and credience of the United States undermined US Foreign Minister on their European trip to make some more verbal constituents (for EU ministers everything is alright now). Apparently, the deputies of the Reprused Antenna House, although here as well as in the Senate the Republicans have the majority, have considered that an aggressive policy, which in contrast to the "bose" Terrorists for freedom, law and democracy wants to enter, not with the same means can proceed as the terrorists and tyrants.

However, the Bush Government seemed to continue to continue the path that has been taken out once that in war against terrorism human rights and international agreements no longer need to be adhered to. The appeal policy of the sowing house, the coverage of the Pentagon for mistreatment in Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo and elsewhere and above all the attempt to explicitly exclude the CIA from the torture ban testify. But the House of Representatives did not play anymore and supported the torture ban with a majority of 308 against 122 votes.

Although the addition to the Budget Act has not been binding, the domestic blockade now seems to have led to rethinking in the sowing house – or one has already developed a strategy with the Republican deputies to create a strategy despite the McCain additional loophole. However, only 107 Republican deputies had voted on it and 121 against it. Even a day later, Bush met with the Senators McCain and John Warner. After the conversation, Bush contacted the public and merged that he was very pleased to have achieved a convention over the torture ban. Together, you want to defend the USA, but also make sure the USA "The American values in the fight against the terrorists and the victory over them" beware. You have made it clear that "this government does not torture and that we obey the international torture agreement in Germany and abroad". And of course, it was done as if the US government has always seen this and practiced this, and as a commodity the agreement by one "close cooperation" come about. John McCain also celebrated its success and contained every critical remark:

And I Would Like To So Repeat, We’ve Sent a Message To The World That The United States Is Not Like The Terrorists. WE HAVE No Grief for Them, But What We Are a Nation That Upholds Values and Standards of Behavior and Treatment of All People, No Matter How Evil Or Bad They Are. And I Think That This Will Help US Enormously In Winning The War For The Hearts And Minds Of People Throughout The World In The War On Terror.

John McCain

But the question will be whether this spade recognition will actually lead to the hoped-forverted transfers of people around the world without any work-up of the past, so that the credging of the Bush government and their war were rescued against the terror. But it was possible, however, it was still fast enough to reare at least the composite governments and thus accomplish that the enrollment prere remains low, at least no new scandal is coming up.

The Union parties, it seems, are in a comfortable location

In the general election, the Union parties have increased the distance to the SPD. The so-called left camp has proven to be phantom, so it does not constitute competition at the start of a new government. As a chancellor Angela Merkel sits firmly in the saddle, while she needs a party as a helper, but that will find it. For new elections, SPD and grune came badly. An Angie state in the long run?

The bill does. The image of a stable force of the CDU / CSU in the party spectrum is due to optical exchanges and also by the fact that the fractures in the housing of the Union parties are not taken into view.

In case of a closer look is recognizable: Even with this election, the CDU / CSU has not gathered the majority of the Wahler behind – and certainly not the majoritat of the voter voting. The legitimacy for the Chancellor is anything but upcoming, even if the opinion-making media bring this to the people. The AFD has not only committed to the Christian terrain, but strategically, it is a competition on the edge of the Union parties, revealing is the development in the Easter-rich parties landscape.

At the moment only the CDU / CSU still has the character of a "Folk party", The SPD will not recover him, with the greats, he was brought into play only short-term and illusionar. Still, the Union parties are able to eliminate expectations of economic owners, medium-sized staff and workers election policy with themselves.

On the consequent thing of politicians who determine the course of the CDU / CSU, for the structural requirements of the financial-"Market" and the coarse company is not to doubt, there are there "No alternatives". However, this is not clear that the Union policy makes all sorts of constraints in detail on Wunsche from that population mass that depends on dependent work. You can do that "Social democratization" call the Union, if thought of: on the "System transceiver" Had the "reformer" SPD even lasted, at least if it did not correspond to the requirements of the capital side.

The question is how long the ruling Union parties can convey the feelings, with them divergent economic and social interests are well accommodated, so to speak "saved". In German industry, the differences between world market-oriented actors and such middle-class companies rely on the internal market. For the middle classes growth decline. The skilled worker fears before the relocation in precare investments. There is still hope that the German Local Chancellor will keep all under control, ensuring the economic preferred position of the Federal Republic and to arrange social compensation in this country halfway.

But how long stop? Germany does not have a paradise insertion in an otherwise storm ocean of the European economy. Deferred problems have the unpleasant property not necessarily. And Angela Merkel, smart as she is, has already been explored, she will no longer perceive her job. It is probably that the People’s Party Phase of the CDU / CSU runs out during the next few years. What comes in the field of the parties does not have to be more pleasing than a present that is already unpleasant enough. An indication that misunderstood as a request for passivation.

The police and their weapons systems

Skandalchen in Baden-Wurttemberg: The new pistols of Heckler Koch does not push as exactly as you should. Interesting are mainly the accompanying items.

Oberndorf am Neckar is a small town with a coarse tradition. For several centuries you have already been manufacturing sliding tool, and since 1949 the company Heckler works there Cook, which is almost paradigmatic for the German weapon forge and the German arms trade in all world – even if the company is in the meantime to the British rating company BAE Systems.

Tailler Koch has been building weapons not only for police and militar in Germany, also elsewhere in the world is trusted on the Wurttemberg brand manufacturer, such as the film known at the time "Budging from Oberndorf" Documented knew.

From the 500.000 people who die in small arms die, many a little qualitative, because with products from Heckler Koch was created on her. Even the RAF did not trust at least in her logo on the socialist competition model, the Kalashnikov AK 47, but on a product from Heckler Koch (MP 5)

A whopping market penetration, one should mean. Currently there is stunk. From the 20.000 new pistols of the model P 2000 V5, which were delivered to the Baden-Wurttemberg police, does not constantly shift a considerable proportion so well. This comes to the public, and a deputy head of the police operations of the police in Mannheim of the police may be particularly explained that pistols that walk the police do not have to enjoy the tunnel, putting the sports plans to their creaking – it does not matter if A shot once a few inches under the finish lying.

To do this, the man is dramatically imaged with pistol in the attack, grimly received his destination. Maybe there will be similar newspaper reports in Niedersachsen and in North Rhine-Westphalia, because Heckler has to Lower Saxony Koch again 15.Delivered 000 pistols of the same type, according to North Rhine-Westphalia an unnamed number. So far is the all economic routine between the arms suppliers and the police in this country – interesting are more of two other things. First, the P 2000 is not alone on the crap of Heckler Koch grown, so much you also emanate on the homepage the years of development in the company’s own engineers.

Because the union of the police informed that the University of Applied Sciences of the police in Villingen-Schwenningen has made decisive preparatory work, in the development of police weapons a novelty. The research work of the University of Applied Sciences are even recorded on a CD-ROM, which can be acquired at the price of 10 euros at the paying agent of the university. So it has to do with an interesting form of business demand: the police makes their own development work, overlook the results of the economy and then buys the finished product in tens of thousands of copies of the relevant company. In fact, an impressive example of the free market economy, which actually wants to rely on state-proof competition of the best.

As interesting as the genesis history of the pistol is the language in which they are now negotiating. Accordingly, the deputy head of operational training in Mannheim is paid by one "Weapon system", this despite lightweigh defect all requirements involve "Combat weapons" is the speech, from "Tactical smuck" – Quite as if the member of an army speak here. At the almost symbiotically close cooperation with Heckler Cook is only logically. If you look at the Jargon, with which the deep military-colored product portfolio of the company is advertised (S. for example "Main struggle" of the G36 rifle or the grenade machine gun), then you know where the language of the Mannheim policeman comes from, which is mutually reprinted in the press.

His pistol is just a weapon system used after tactical aspects. From time to time, not against criminals, but against opposition or otherwise unpleasant, as the well-documented trap of drawn service weapons in demonstrations prove, the death of Halim Derer, N’deye Mareame Sarr and other occasions in which the rule of law lost the Fang. A more sensitive document for the trend observable for years to (re) militarization of the police as this spark of "Weapon system" You have to look for anyway.

If it was good, the Baden-Wurttemberg weapon climb was able to raise questions. For example, every conceivable human society needs a police? If so, you have to be armed? If yes how? At least one could take the peculiar interbulum of a war-weapon manufacturer with the German police under the magnifying glass. But it will not run well. It will run well with a federal republican, and the only questions that will come to the table in this context, if at all, are those of product liability and qualitaire. So that the police weapons systems in the future are exactly the goal again. And not a few centimeters wrong.

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