U.S. Didn't Sign The Ban On Disappearing Detainees

   Did you know that on Tuesday, more than 60 countries signed a treaty which bans governments from holding people in secret lockup?

    There were a few countries that did not sign this treaty. Can you guess who a few of them were? Can you say " United States"?  Some of the others were the usual Bush Crime Family European allies.

Wednesday, February 7, 2007 by the Associated Press

"Our American friends were naturally invited to this ceremony; unfortunately, they weren't able to join us," French Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy told reporters after 57 nations signed the treaty at his ministry in Paris.

"That won't prevent them from one day signing on in New York at U.N. headquarters - and I hope they will."

State Department spokesman Sean McCormack declined comment except to say that the United States helped draft the treaty, but that the final text "did not meet our expectations."

McCormack declined comment on whether the U.S. stance was influenced by the administration's policy of sending terrorism suspects to CIA-run prisons overseas, which Bush acknowledged in September.

Many other Western nations, including Germany, Spain, Britain and Italy, also did not sign the treaty. France introduced the convention at the U.N. General Assembly in November and it was adopted in December.  Article

   I can well understand why the Bush administration would not want to sign this treaty. It would be called a criminal defense move on the Bush teams part. To many skeletons in the closet to go along with anything that would be humane and moral.

 

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