Monday, April 20, 2009
Waterboarding...
Playboy journalist Mike Guy did something I've wondered about: he volunteered to undergo waterboarding to see how bad it could possibly be. I don't mean that I'd volunteer to do this, even as a controlled experiement. I've been convinced from the beginning that waterboarding IS torture, but I've wondered why some of the more outspoken defenders of this "interrogation technique" haven't volunteered to do what Mike Guy did, if it's just a matter of not being a pussy. Mike Guy says in the beginning of this video that he bet he could withstand 15 seconds of being waterboarded, reasoning that anyone can stand anything for 15 seconds. Watch the results. I'm in favor of appointing a special prosecutor.
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I couldn't watch this. I didn't want to watch this. I don't need to be convinced that waterboarding is torture. I read about a similar techinique used during the Spanish Inquisition, and I couldn't really believe that people think up these kinds of things to DO to other people.
Absolutely abhorrent.
Heck, even holding your breath for fifteen seconds can leave you looking at your watch, never mind being tied down, going through the whole "this isn't really toture" routine with no chance to catch your breath.
If you have to ask about what you're doing it probably is torture. And yes, the good old boys from the Spanish Inquisition were masters of this technique.
I'd like to see the lawyers that wrote the opinions Shrub and Cheney's actions were based hung out to dry.
Just how far from being normal can we work so hard at being...that is crap! I assume it will be tried in high schools etc. now and under the influences...Sick!
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