Concerning column in today's NYT by Frank Bruno on the new hit movie "Zero Dark Thirty".

Below find remarks from an invididual who calls himself "ostan" taken from this morning's New York Times.  He is commenting on the value and morality of torture.  Which I consider to be an issue not yet resolved in this country. 

"Many security experts, as the article notes, would disagree that torture "works" as a method of interrogation. There is the problem, most obviously, of misinformation and false confessions produced under duress. The brutalization of suspects can also fuel anti-American sentiment, helping to recruit new jihadists. But, more immportantly, torture is simply horrifyingly wrong, a violation of basic standards of due process and human dignity that can never be justified. That's why it's expressly prohibited the Geneva Conventions and other protocols to which the United States is a signatory. It's more than a leftist truism to say that a case could and should be built against Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and others in the Bush administration for their advocacy of waterboarding and other methods that clearly violated international law and will remain to great shame of our country."

The take-away the reader gets from this, I hope,  is:

"TORTURE IS SIMPLY HORRIFYING WRONG, A VIOLATION OF BASIC STANDARDS OF DUE PROCESS AND HUMAN DIGNITY THAT CAN NEVER BE JUSTIFIED".

That I would even have to post this picture and comment comes as a realization that many Americans believe we can suspend basic rights and protections when it is convenient including individuals of power and influence. Such actions come from fear and the belief that the end can justify the means which is innately immoral.