Our silence on torture signifies tacit approval
Silence about torture is morally corrosive. We need to have a national conversation about its practice of torture in the "war on terror" and our role as a major ally [Australia] to a country that persists in doing it. As it stands, the public and political silence on this issue constitutes a de facto endorsement of the crime. It wrongs us all.
by Nina Philadelphoff-Puren, Online National Forum, November 2007
http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=6653&page=0