Casey.... thanks for your questions, i was specifically referring to ..

a)an apparent legal CIA policy of 'extra ordinary rendition'. Referred to by others as the outsourcing of torture.

b)the continual holding of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, where the excellent laws of the US legal system do not seem to apply.

To your other questions .. i believe all people are one and the same, in that, what is necessary for me, is undoubtedly necessary for the other.. be it food, shelter, clean water, clean air, safe housing, affordable medical care, educational opportunities,protection from abuse and exploitation, and the list could go on.

These things are far removed from the majority of the world's people .. there have been decades to make changes, yet that hasn't happened. I think it is because fear rules the world more often than common sense. But i could be wrong.. thanks again Casey for the opportunity to answer.

[ December 24, 2005, 04:40 PM: Message edited by: norma ]