Psychologists End Guantanamo Collaboration, Will No Longer Help Government In Interrogations

[kpete]

Psychologists End Guantanamo Collaboration, Will No Longer Help Government In Interrogations
| September 18, 2008 09:51 AM EST | AP

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The nation's leading psychologist's association has voted to ban its members from taking part in interrogations at the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and other military detention sites.

The ban means psychologists who are association members can't assist the U.S. military at these sites and can only work there for humanitarian purposes or with non-governmental groups, according to Stephen Soldz, a Boston psychologist. Soldz is founder of an ethics coalition that has long supported the ban.

Steven Reisner, a New York psychologist who's running for president of the association, said Thursday that members' votes were counted this week.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/18/psychologists-end-guantan_n_127416.html

[eShirl]

1. better late than never?

[kpete]

2. yes

a small victory - a shred of decency.

peace, kp

[bananas]

3. You'd think psychologists might've had enough enough insight to figure it out sooner

[Shanti Mama]

6. K&R. Yes, better late...

People can come to their senses, admit they were wrong. Much better than trying to justify what they continue to do. They are not trying to rewrite their own history. They're owning up to wrong action and changing it.
Good for them!

[Festivito]

4. Slap Bush admin, "[IS OK] with non-governmental groups,"

and US and our democracy, but it has to be done.

[Piewhacket]

5. Now vote to remove members who aided the torture of prisoners.

http://www.apa.org/releases/petition0908.html

Come-on APA, you want to stand on the high road,
and do something besides blather pious tripe
six years too late?

Diasvow and remove members known to have
participated in the torture of prisoners.