Comment by _3u10
1 day ago
It’s saved so over 15,000 lives and protected the human rights of millions of Salvadorans. Truly a great accomplishment.
I’m excited to see what positive coverage CBS has of this great development in human rights in El Salvador.
Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 5:
No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.
Agreed. 15,000 el Salvadorans have not been subjected to arbitrary execution. A triumph of the rule of law.
What's saved that? The torture camp? You know bukele _is associated with_ MS13
Don't expect anyone to care about that angle. Let them virtue signal like somehow human right concerns of violent criminals is more important then the safety of the entire population of el salvador. Safely insulated from the consequences of their misplaced humanity of course. To be clear i saw a documentary of CECOT and it looks terribly oppressive, but i see no evidence of human rights abuses, even though most of the inmates there have forfeited theirs through their actions imo.
How about caring for both? How about that as an idea? It’s impossible for you to accept that you can arrest and jail all those people to protect the lives of regular citizens but also not torture them while they are in jail?
Sigh… there is no such thing as forfeiting your human rights by committing a crime. You only forfeit your freedom temporarily.
And why mention that inmates have forfeited their human rights if you see no evidence of abuse? Weird thing to pre-argue.
Of course there is. Freedom is a pretty fundamental human right. We don't mind taking it away from some people, sometimes permanently. Then of course the death penalty is a thing.
Now organised abuse, or even not taking steps to prevent such abuse is accepted to be a bad thing by most of society so that shouldn't happen. But my concern isn't directed in any way towards violent gangsters that held an entire country hostage.