Loved Ones...are we a "Christian" nation?
Loved Ones…one of the most common images of Our Lord Jesus the Christ promoted by “Christians” is of His physical body hanging on a torture device.

Loved Ones…Our Lord spent the vast bulk of His life happy…playing with loved ones…

enjoying the company of his most loving wife and loving beautiful children…

He spent many many more hours kissing newborns and tiny babies…. and playing games with children than He ever did being tortured.

Our Lord Jesus the Christ spent a relatively few hours being physically overpowered and hung upon a torture device… yet….this is how He is most often depicted….

Loved Ones…please give this some thought…if during your life you were abused at some specific time….for example you were being sodomized as a physical torture by foreign soldiers…would you want your image…would you desire your memory to be constantly kept alive for the rest of mankind to be stimulated with as you being sodomized?

Loved Ones….would you be pleased to go into thousands of buildings designed to honor you and to honor all your loving teaching so that you will be remembered with your image being sodomized up in front where all who entered were faced to look at you being violated?....I think not!


Do you actually think Our Lord Jesus the Christ wants you to see images of Him hanging on a torture device?

Of course not…yet that is what so called “Christians” do.

Loved Ones…During his State of the Union address, George W. Bush spoke about the horrifying torture techniques Saddam Hussein has inflicted on prisoners in Iraq. He described the use of electric shock, burning with hot irons, acid, and rape. He said that the Iraqi government tortured children to get their parents to confess to crimes.

President Bush concluded: "If this isn't evil, then evil has no meaning."

Loved Ones...There is now strong evidence that the United States itself has engaged in torture and condoned its use by others as part of its war against terrorism.

Photographs of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad, hooded, naked, attached to wires, attacked by dogs, forced to simulate sex acts and assume humiliating and painful postitions, and presided over by smiling U.S. military personnel have shocked the world. Other incidents of abuse and even murder have come to light and received new attention.

Loved Ones…Now we learn that the Bush administration endorsed the use of waterboarding against al-Qaeda suspects in secret memos to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the Washington Post has reported.

The pair of classified memos, written in 2003 and 2004, was requested by George Tenet, former CIA chief, more than a year after secret interrogations got under way, the newspaper quoted administration and intelligence officials as saying.

The Post reported on Wednesday that the CIA required cover from the White House due to concerns of a possible backlash if details on harsh interrogation methods went public.

Waterboarding, which involves tipping a suspect back and pouring water over his face to provoke the fear of drowning, has been roundly criticised by human rights groups.
Although lawyers from the US justice department had permitted the agency's interrogation methods, which began in 2002, senior CIA officials wanted the Bush administration to give the programme an endorsement in writing, the Post reported.

The request by Tenet to get a written endorsement of the CIA programme reflected unease that the Bush administration might absolve itself of decisions taken about the handling of captured al Qaeda leaders, the Post said, citing anonymous former intelligence officials.

Tenet first asked the White House for written approval in June 2003 during a meeting with members of the National Security Council, the Post reported.
Soon after, Tenet received a brief memo from the Bush administration, giving explicit approval for the CIA's interrogation methods, the officials were cited as saying by the Post.

Tenet requested a second endorsement of CIA interrogation from the administration in June 2004, the newspaper reported.
The request was made after the abuse of Iraqi detainees by US soldiers at Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison became public, it said.
Administration officials confirmed the existence of the memos, but neither they nor former intelligence officers would describe the still classified documents in detail, the newspaper reported.

Loved Ones…The Convention against Torture defines torture as "any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person for such purposes as obtaining from him or a third person information or a confession…." (Art. 1). It may be "inflicted by or at the instigation of or acquiescence of a public official or other person acting in an official capacity."

The prohibition against torture under international law applies to many measures—e.g. beating on the soles of the feet; electric shock applied to genitals and nipples; rape; near drowning through submersion in water; near suffocation by plastic bags tied around the head; burning; whipping; needles inserted under fingernails; mutilation; hanging by feet or hands for prolonged periods.

International law also prohibits mistreatment that does not meet the definition of torture, either because less severe physical or mental pain is inflicted, or because the necessary purpose of the ill-treatment is not present.

It affirms the right of every person not to be subjected to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment.

Examples of such prohibited mistreatment include being forced to stand spread eagled against the wall; being subjected to bright lights or blindfolding; being subjected to continuous loud noise; being deprived of sleep, food or drink; being subjected to forced constant standing or crouching; or violent shaking. In essence, any form of physical treatment used to intimidate, coerce or "break" a person during an interrogation constitutes prohibited ill-treatment. If these practices are intense enough, prolonged in duration, or combined with other measures that result in severe pain or suffering, they can qualify as torture.

The prohibition against torture as well as cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment is not limited to acts causing physical pain or injury. It includes acts that cause mental suffering—e.g. through threats against family or loved ones. As the U.S. Supreme Court has recognized, "coercion can be mental as well as physical…the blood of the accused is not the only hallmark of an unconstitutional inquisition" Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436, 448, (1966) citing Blackburn v. State of Alabama, 361 U.S. 199 (1960). As discussed below, the use of mind-altering drugs to compel a person to provide information would at least amount to inhuman or degrading treatment under the Convention against Torture.

Loved Ones…there are many lessons to be learned…

At this time I petition for all entities involved with the acts of torture to be enclosed with the White Light of the Holy Spirit…that they learn all their lessons with the least amount of pain….I petition and ask that in the Name of Mother and Father God.

You and all your loved ones are always in my prayers,

Samuel Joseph Bell

www.angelicinfusion.com
- posted by Samuel Bell @ 6:33 AM