{"id":7098,"date":"2009-04-25T08:56:31","date_gmt":"2009-04-25T15:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=7098"},"modified":"2009-04-26T02:42:06","modified_gmt":"2009-04-26T09:42:06","slug":"reagans-torture-convention-signing-statement-abhorrent-practice-prosecute-torturers-or-extradite-to-other-countries-for-prosecution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/?p=7098","title":{"rendered":"Reagan&#8217;s Torture Convention Signing Statement: &#8216;Abhorrent Practice,&#8217; &#8216;Prosecute Torturers or Extradite to Other Countries for Prosecution&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/RonaldReaganSigning.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">Reagan on torture prosecution, <a href=\"http:\/\/andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com\/the_daily_dish\/2009\/04\/reagan-on-torture-prosecutions.html\">via Andrew Sullivan<\/a>, from the days <i>before<\/i> George W. Bush decided how to use signing statements for evil, rather than good&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"media\">From his <a href=\"http:\/\/findarticles.com\/p\/articles\/mi_m1079\/is_n2137_v88\/ai_6742034\/\">signing statement<\/a> ratifying the UN Convention on Torture from 1984:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The United States participated actively and effectively in the negotiation of the Convention . It marks a significant step in the development during this century of international measures against torture and <em>other inhuman treatment or punishment<\/em>. Ratification of the Convention by the United States will clearly express United States opposition to torture, an abhorrent practice unfortunately still prevalent in the world today.<\/p>\n<p>The core provisions of the Convention establish a regime for international cooperation in the criminal prosecution of torturers relying on so-called &#8216;universal jurisdiction.&#8217; Each State Party is required either to prosecute torturers who are found in its territory or to extradite them to other countries for prosecution.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My italics. Reagan was admant [<em>sic<\/em>] about prosecuting torture, but also prosecuting inhuman treatment that some might claim was not full-on torture. Now go read National Review or The Weekly Standard. And look what has happened to conservatism in America.<\/div>\n<p>Reagan was, of course, part of the Blame-America-First crowd. Soft on terror. Friend of the evil-doers. Why did Ronald Reagan hate America?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reagan on torture prosecution, via Andrew Sullivan, from the days before George W. Bush decided how to use signing statements for evil, rather than good&#8230; From his signing statement ratifying the UN Convention on Torture from 1984: &#8220;The United States participated actively and effectively in the negotiation of the Convention . It marks a significant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[405,415,366],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bush-legacy","category-ronald-reagan","category-torture"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7098\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}