Cuba Will Not Return Assata Shakur to US

[MrScorpio]

25. I'm sure that she's been beaten and treated in ways that could be described as "torture" in the past

But here's where I'm having bit of a problem connecting your assertion that it's best for her to not be extradited to a "country that tortures:" Relevance, or the lack thereof.

We both understand that the entities that tortured detainees (Mostly Islamic) did so for reasons pertaining to the so-called War of Terror. Plus, the US under President Obama has indicated that those methods are no longer used.

The harsh treatment that she received didn't happen as a course of official US policy, as did the torture of detainees under Bush, did it not? So are you alleging that she's would be tortured anyway, with or without official sanction today?

Are you saying the government of the United States would go out of it's way to torture someone NOT associated with the War on Terror and by an administration that has stated that torture practices are no longer engaged in? And what information would they want to derive from torturing her? Wouldn't torturing her ultimately risk the government's case against her?

Now, let me say this, I'm glad that Cuba has chosen NOT to extradite her back to the States. But not for the same reasons that you've dug a hole and dropped yourself into for. I believe that she was political prisoner who was innocent of the charges they railroaded her on. Sending her back to this country would be a miscarriage of justice. And frankly, I don't see what good it would do to connect one policy under Bush, to the ending of that policy under Obama.

The situation wouldn't merit the use of torture as an official policy, if that's what you're alleging right now. It's just silly to bring it up.