Should confessions obtained by torture be admissible in US courts?

The fact that our Military Goverment is acting like the greater evil makes me very angery.
A confession under torture - is no confession at all. Illegally obtained confessions are
violations of human rights and go against anything America the dieing Democracy once
represented. If we want to put an end to terrisom we have to stop being terrorist!

When GWB first brought up the prospect of having military tribunals for POWs there was a big uproar about how they would be Kangaroo Courts. It looks like those concerns were well founded. There is no civilized court in the world I know of that would allow a confession by torture to be admissible in court. Let alone the torture of a child.

What does it say about the US when we have interrogators threaten 15 year old prisoners with being gang-raped to death by "four big black guys" in the shower. What kind of person signs up for that job? This was the lead interrogator threatening him, with the smiling approval of his superiors. He was later turned into a fall guy and prosecuted for beating prisoners on the job. I'd tell you his name, but it wasn't released. This pattern of abuse, secrecy, cover-up, fall guy is one you'll see time and time again when the misdeeds conducted in the "war on terror" are exposed. The US will prosecute some sadistic minion while his superiors get off with nary a firm talking to.

Khadr has been held and tortured by the US for 7 years now. I can tell you that if he wasn't a terrorist 7 years ago he surely is one now. If you torture someone for 7 years that is one sure fire way to make them hate you. All this does is prove to the world how sick and sadistic the American Empire is. Not only do we torture prisoners, but their "confessions" are admissible in our Kangaroo Courts.

Now US torture apologists will prattle on about how torture is illegal and the military generally frowns upon doing anything illegal. The US military will do whatever it feels like, it has no interest in following its own rules whether its murdering civilians from helicopters, torturing POWs, or breaking the rules of evidence. The 2006 Military Commissions Act states:

"A statement obtained by use of torture shall not be admitted into evidence against any party or witness, except against a person accused of torture as evidence that the statement was made."

Torture, as defined by the Military Commissions act of 2006 consists of:

A. The intentional infliction or threatened infliction of severe physical
pain or suffering;

B. the administration or application, or threatened administration or
application, of mind-altering substances or other procedures calculated to disrupt profoundly the senses or the personality;

C. the threat of imminent death; or

D. the threat that another person will imminently be subjected to death,
severe physical pain or suffering, or the administration or application of mind-altering substances or other procedures calculated to disrupt profoundly the senses or personality.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_Commissions_Act_of_2006

So torture is illegal, but we do that anyway. Confessions obtained by torture are inadmissible in court, but we use them anyway. I think I'm starting to notice a pattern... What pro-murder, pro-torture, anti-human US apologists fail to realize is that these Kangaroo Courts won't just be used against "evil Muslims" they will be used against anyone the American Empire wants. A right denied to any US prisoner is a right denied to anyone in the US. We need to ensure that Khadr's rights are protected not because of Khadr, but because of ourselves. No matter what someone has done they have rights that must be protected. This belief is what separates humans from monsters.