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Everything You Need to Know About Torture
Here is a succinct executive summary of everything you know about torture:
Yes, Waterboarding IS Torture
- President Obama, Attorney General Eric Holder, Malcolm Nance (an advisor on terrorism to the US departments of Homeland Security, Special Operations and Intelligence), Lt. Gen. Michael D. Maples
(the director of the Defense Intelligence Agency) and many other
interrogation experts and high-level politicians say that waterboarding
is torture
- The United States has always considered waterboarding to be a crime of torture, including when the Japanese did it in WWII (and see this)
- Everyone claiming waterboarding is not torture has changed their tune as soon as they were exposed to even a small dose of it themselves. See this, this and this
It Wasn't Only Waterboarding
- Major General Antonio Taguba: Photos Show Sodomy, Rape and Sexual Assault With Wire and Various Blunt Instruments
- "The
Sexual Humiliation Of Iraqi Prisoners…Was Not An Invention Of Maverick
Guards, But Part Of A SYSTEM Of Ill-Treatment And Degradation"
Children, Too
No, Torture Does NOT Make Us Safer
- One of the Military's Top Interrogators Says Torture Cost Hundreds 'If Not Thousands' Of American Lives
The Insanity of What Actually Happened
- One
of the Main Sources for the 9/11 Commission Report was Tortured
Until He Agreed to Sign a Confession that He Was NOT EVEN ALLOWED TO
READ
- 9/11
Mastermind: "During ... My Interrogation I Gave A Lot Of False
Information In Order To Satisfy What I Believed The Interrogators
Wished To Hear"
- The Senior Counsel to the 9/11 Commission (John Farmer) - who led the 9/11 staff's inquiry - recently said: "The CIA tapes of the interrogations were destroyed. The story of 9/11 itself, to put it mildly, was distorted and was completely different from the way things happened"
Other Relevant Facts
- Former Navy Judge Advocate General Admiral John Hutson said that "Torture is the technique of choice of the lazy, stupid and pseudo-tough"
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actually a shower is like waterboarding, if you ask me. i think initially it is a shock to get showerboarded. that is why they invented the shower here in america. most people just use to bath. but they had to come up with showerboarding.
When was the last time you were boarded in the shower?
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LMFAO!!!!
Yeah, just about. My last scrap of faith in authority, including those who structure our government, just got set alight (as if citizens united left me with any faith). Time to look for a new means of governance, this one is not only a failure, it supports a class above all else who value greed to the point of torturing children and maiming crotches half a world away. If I wasn't done with it all before, I'm done now.
So there's no way to use the technology to govern ourselves more directly? All those folks with nothing better to do than poke iphones could be voting with those phones, or better yet, writing legislation with them. Voter referendums are not availible to the extent they should be, at the absolute very least.
I agree with punishing the people who tortured others, and those that instructed/ordered others to torture, severly. It is treason and they should rot in a hole until dead.
So many things these days remind me of the standford prison experiment (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_experiment).
And as long as I'm bitching and not being productive...Where's my fusion power!?! That shit would be aweful nice right now. How much value do we invest in those possible returns again? Jack shit? Well that seems wise...especially when we spend about half of everything on killing better!? Maybe if I propose a giant fusion powered tank with a soul of steel and a heart of star fire that shoots lightning like a machine gun I'll be able to pass it through the military industrial complex without their realizing fusion makes them obsolete in ways unexpected, that is as long as we get the fusion reactor out of the tank before they enslave us with it. See this is why we need to be able to vote more directly. You can get things done without having to invent a fusion tank or some such.
*Sigh*
Finally someone is honest in saying this whole government thing doesnt work. Now lets take a big step and say, more importantly, it is IMMORAL.
For the brave among you, google "anarcho-capitalism."
And wasnt it emma goldberg that said "if voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal."
Any system of self-government eventually devolves into a class system. Once it is a class system there will be a "class" of those in charge.
What we need to do is re-arrange the deck chairs and restore a system of "limited government." We could do that if we amended the constitution to remove the "general welfare clause" from Article I, Section 8 of the constitution.
Torture is Treason? Again, I do not endorse torture but, Torture is Treason? I think you're getting your anti-american memes confused.
Great post.