Monday, August 18, 2008

California outlaws Bush's torture policies

California's been making a lot of noise lately about charting a different course than Uncle Sam (see here, for example). Her latest act of resistance should have some long-lasting, international repercussions:

The California Legislature today adopted a resolution aimed at preventing California health professionals from engaging in coercive interrogations of detainees at Guantánamo and other U.S. military prisons.

Senate Joint Resolution 19 instructs the state’s licensing boards to inform California doctors, psychologists and other health professionals of their obligations under national and international law relating to torture. The boards will warn the licensees that they may one day be subject to prosecution if they participate in interrogations that do not conform to international standards of treatment of prisoners.

California has resisted DC's control regarding pollution and immigration as well. So when do folks there realize the sane thing to do is to make a clean break from DC's destructive, wasteful rule?

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