REF: DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE LEGAL FINDING MEMOS TO CHENEY, RUMSFELD, et. al.
IT IS NOT TORTURE UNLESS IT "CAUSES SUBSTANTIAL AND IRREVERSIBLE DAMAGE TO A MAJOR ORGAN OR A FUNCTION OF THAT ORGAN."
As an additional historical footnote I offer this brief reflection from another time when religion and politics played a major consideration in the perpetration of major war crimes, as established by judges (a number American) at Nuremberg, Germany 1945 - 49.
HITLER'S ATTORNEY GENERAL FOUND SALVATION IMMEDIATELY BEFORE HIS WAR CRIME EXECUTION.
Hans Frank
Frank acted as lawyer and senior official for the Nazi party and legal advisor for Hitler. He also served a tenure as Governor-General of occupied Poland for which he was convicted during the Nuremberg trials for his role in perpetrating the Jewish holocaust and found guilty of complicity in the murder of millions of Poles and Polish Jews. A former Protestant (his father was a Protestant and his mother a Catholic), he converted to Roman Catholicism after his arrest where he felt relieved at the prospect of atoning for his evil deeds. [The belief that one can be saved for any atrocious act demonstrates the moral flaw of Christian doctrine.]
HITLER'S ATTORNEY GENERAL FOUND SALVATION IMMEDIATELY BEFORE HIS WAR CRIME EXECUTION.
Hans Frank
Frank acted as lawyer and senior official for the Nazi party and legal advisor for Hitler. He also served a tenure as Governor-General of occupied Poland for which he was convicted during the Nuremberg trials for his role in perpetrating the Jewish holocaust and found guilty of complicity in the murder of millions of Poles and Polish Jews. A former Protestant (his father was a Protestant and his mother a Catholic), he converted to Roman Catholicism after his arrest where he felt relieved at the prospect of atoning for his evil deeds. [The belief that one can be saved for any atrocious act demonstrates the moral flaw of Christian doctrine.]
"Hitler is lonely, So is God. Hitler is like God."
-Reichminister Hans Frank (FL Schuman, "Hitler and the Nazi Dictatorship," London 1936
"We are under the great obligation of recognizing as a holy work of our Volk's spirit the laws signed by Adolf Hitler's name. Hitler has received his authority from God. Therefore he is champion, sent by God, of German Right in the world." -Hans Frank, Frankfurt-am-Main, 30 October 1935 (Aurel Kolnai, The War Against the West)
"I am thankful for the kind treatment during my captivity and I ask God to accept me with mercy." -Hans Frank, in his last statement before execution (Hans Frank from Wikipedia online encyclopedia)
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