Flanked by men charging abuse at the hands of Chicago Police, the Rev. Jesse Jackson called on Gov. Quinn on Saturday to immediately appoint members to a torture commission enacted last year.
"Men who were beaten with telephone books until their ears rang, men who had torture upon their testicles, tortured until they bled," Jackson said during a news conference at Rainbow/PUSH headquarters. "We speak out about torture in Abu Ghraib, torture in Guantanamo, we should speak out about torture in Illinois. We want [the torture commission] to be fully functional in a matter of days."
Abu Ghraib was fraternity type hazing, not torture. Guantanamo wasn't torture by any stretch of the imagination, nor by any definition of International Law. And no one has been convicted of torture in Illinois either, only perjury. If Jesse wants to solve some problems, he could address the ongoing slaughter in the black community by black offenders, each death being more than what occurred at Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo or Area 2.
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