Torture is NEVER Justified

You've heard the arguments some people are making to justify the use of torture. They make the hypothetical case of something like a bomb placed in a school or hospital or some other place where innocent people or children will be killed unless the suspected bomber tells where the bomb is. They feel this justifies torture of this one person if it will save the lives of the many more people in the school or hospital or other location. So. Torture is justified in their minds because of the relative numbers. Well and good, except that allowing torture to be performed by authority means it will be used, never doubt it. And the fact is, the number of people tortured will vastly outnumber the wholly hypothetical number of imaginary 'victims' whom the torturers feel they are protecting. The surest thing about authority is that it will be misused and abused. Does anyone really think that they can be sure that torture will be justly and carefully used? Can't people ever learn from the past? Cruel and unusual punishment is forbidden to us by the constitution of our country, the MAKEUP OF OUR COUNTRY, which is what constitution actually means. The men and women who were behind the structuring of our country, this United States of America, lived in a very different world than we who are their descendants. They lived in a world, and fought against tyrants, in wars and courageous arguments, that contained and used torture regularly and without much thought. Institutionalized torture and cruelty is BAD, it is truly EVIL, and it is deserved by NO ONE, FOR ANY REASON! Kill people in battle if they are fighting you, restrain them and judge them in OPEN COURTS, but never allow government or their servants to secretly spirit individuals away in the dark of night, and de-humanize and degrade them in your name. And not in MY name! I would rather see a school full of children blown up, than have none of us safe from such acts as are performed in places like Guantanamo, or the secret prisons that President Bush, that immoral fool has 'authorized'. He doesn't have MY permission to do such things in my name, and no one should cravenly seek the 'protection' that creatures such as he offer. What has happened to americans, that they are so afraid that they have lost their minds, and their morals, in this way? Remember the brave men and women of our past, who knew that no life is completely safe, but that the greatest protection for all exists when all of us do what is right to our fellow man, and nothing excuses torture, NOTHING! All of us will die, it is the nature of living things. It is how we live, and the way we treat those around us that is of prime importance. That is what makes us human, that is what gives us worth.