{"id":334,"date":"2005-05-22T20:28:20","date_gmt":"2005-05-23T01:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2005\/05\/22\/334\/"},"modified":"2008-07-23T12:36:46","modified_gmt":"2008-07-23T16:36:46","slug":"violation-of-dignity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2005\/05\/22\/334\/","title":{"rendered":"violation of dignity"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/nikolasschiller.com\/images\/saddam.jpg\"\/>\n<\/div>\n<p>Article 3 of the Geneva Convention relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War <a href=\"\"target=_blank>states<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nTo this end the following acts are and shall remain prohibited at any time and in any place whatsoever with respect to the above-mentioned persons:<\/p>\n<p>(a) Violence to life and person, in particular murder of all kinds, mutilation, cruel treatment and torture;<\/p>\n<p>(b) Taking of hostages;<\/p>\n<p>(c) Outrages upon personal dignity, in particular, humiliating and degrading treatment;<\/p>\n<p>(d) The passing of sentences and the carrying out of executions without previous judgment pronounced by a regularly constituted court affording all the judicial guarantees which are recognized as indispensable by civilized peoples.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The photograph above, in my opinion, clearly violates section <b>c<\/b>. <\/p>\n<p> I sincerely feel sorry for Saddam right now, I mean, what if that was your grandpa in his skivvies?  Would you like this picture being used as tabloid fodder?  I think not.  <\/p>\n<p>The photographs of Saddam were published in publications owned by Rupport Murdoch, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.softpedia.com\/news\/Bare-naked-pictures-of-Saddam-Hussein-printed-in-THE-SUN-2108.shtml\"target=_blank>The Sun<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.voanews.com\/english\/2005-05-20-voa12.cfm\"target=_blank>The New York Post<\/a>, and I think Murdoch had the option of not allowing these to be printed.  But why not make a few bucks at the expense of a dethroned dictator right?  I sincerely hope that Saddam <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/cgi-bin\/news_service\/middle_east_full_story.asp?service_id=8269\"target=_blank>sues<\/a> him for the amount of money that was made from the sales of the issues where the illegal photographs were printed.<\/p>\n<p>Murdoch is definitely the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/video\/files\/badsanta.mpg\"target=_blank>Bad Santa<\/a>&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Article 3 of the Geneva Convention relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War states: To this end the following acts are and shall remain prohibited at any time and in any place whatsoever with respect to the above-mentioned persons: (a) Violence to life and person, in particular murder of all kinds, mutilation, cruel treatment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[364,252,56,250],"tags":[1168,1167,1166],"class_list":["post-334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","category-iraq","category-location","category-world","tag-geneva-conventions","tag-newspaper","tag-saddam-hussein"],"aioseo_notices":[],"views":43,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}