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Você iria Jail para protestar a tortura?
Sexta-feira, fevereiro 27o, 2009
Por Sherwood Ross Está você pronto para ir jail para o que você acredita? Você estaria até o Pentagon acoplando na rebeldia civil non-violenta para protestar a tortura? Dois homens da fé que fizeram assim, que andou a mesma estrada de Mohandas Gandhi e Rev. Martin Luther King, é Louis Franciscan Vitale e Kelly de Stephen do Jesuit. Eram 75 e 58, respectivamente, quando jailed. Submeteram-se para a apreensão em novembro, 2006, porque se ajoelharam no prayer na entrada de automóveis nos ESTADOS UNIDOS. Centro e escola da inteligência do exército no Fort Huachuca, Arizona. Ft. Huachuca foi descrito como a fonte dos manuais da tortura usados na escola infamous dos Americas. Escrevendo sobre sua experiência em “Sojourners,” um compartimento Christian ecumenical, pai Vitale diz que Kelly e do pai “tinham esperado entregar uma letra que opõe o ensino da tortura” àquelas na carga e falar com o pessoal alistado sobre illegality e o immorality da base o “.” Sadly, para as forças armadas as well as para se, foram prendidos e sentenciados por um Tucson, Ariz., magistrate à prisão por cinco meses. Ambos têm sido liberados desde. Na cadeia imperial do condado em Califórnia, o pai Vitale fêz uma descoberta, que não tivesse nada mais temer: “nós descobrimos o trajeto da resistência: um vocation que nós devamos seguir no meio do império para superar o oppression de nossos irmãos e irmãs.” “Eu realizo este stance em minha pilha solitary… enquanto as portas de aço clang fechado, lá sou liberdade a render-se ao deus e ao este universo. Há uma liberdade a estar aberta à chamada creativa do compassion para nossa comunidade global.” Aparentemente, era difícil para o pai Vitale reconhecer a realidade “essa nossos é uma nação que torturasse.” Chastises seu país porque “retraiu o compromisso que obrigatório fêz quando assinou os 1975 U.N. declaração na tortura.” Essa declaração no artigo I define a tortura como “todo o ato por que dor ou o sofrimento severo, por se físico ou mental, inflicted intencionalmente ou no instigation de um oficial público…” Father Vitale was disturbed by the photos he saw of torture perpetrated at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, such as “hangings, electric shock, beatings, waterboardings, and other extreme physical and psychological procedures,” procedures he says were “spelled out in memos emanating from the White House.” These tortures have been used in prisons not only in Iraq and Guantanamo Bay, but also in prisons to which the U.S. renders prisoners in Syria, Egypt, Morocco, and other countries. Father Vitale says he and Father Kelly were motivated to protest at Fort Huachuca by the death of Alyssa Peterson, a young U.S. Army interpreter who was trained there. “After just two sessions in the cages, she objected and refused to participate in the harsh interrogation techniques being used—techniques the Army now refuses to describe and records of which have been destroyed,” Fr. Vitale writes. “She became distraught and was sent to suicide prevention training, only to commit suicide shortly thereafter,” Father Vitale added. Father Vitale says he would like to know why Maj. Gen. Barbara Fast of Fort Huachuca, formerly chief of military intelligence in Iraq stationed at Abu Ghraib “has never been reprimanded nor prosecuted for her command failure to prevent it.” He is also concerned that Brig. Gen. John Custer, who succeeded Fast in charge of Fort Huachuca, allegedly integrated “into standard practice” the techniques elsewhere he learned at Guantanamo. Father Vitale said when he was in prison he thought about how “Jesus boldly challenged every barrier to the well-being of all, fearlessly breaking the innumerable taboos, customs, and laws that dehumanize, destroy, or diminish human beings, especially the rejected, the feared, the despised. His life and vision has illumined for me the obligation to say ‘no’ to injustice and ‘yes’ to love in action.” While he sat in jail, Father Vitale said he felt as though he was in the presence of both God and Christ “who gave his life for the healing and well-being of all.” He wrote in Sojourners, “In my small cell, I have a growing awareness of the communion of saints—and the possibility of a world where the vast chasm of violence and injustice enforced by torture and war is bridged and transformed.” How many of the rest of us can say that? Have Your Say: Would You Go to Jail to Protest Torture? Please read our posting guidelines before posting. Alternatively you can discuss this report here. Related News
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