Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: What's happening outside Fairfield

[MDixon6569]

In a message dated 9/29/06 11:18:53 A.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What do you do when you capture a terrorist suspect who knows when > and where a nuclear bomb is going to go off in a major American city > and there's only hours left...do you respect his "constitutional > rights" or do you, ahem, torture the shit out of him so that you > save 100,000 lives? False portrayal of situation: it is *conceivable* that you might save lives, but you don't know if the torture will get him to talk, and even if he does, you don't know if he's tellling the truth until it is possibly too late. Do you just keep torturing him over and over again to see if he tells you something different while you're checking the first story? Water boarding Sheik Kahlid Mohammed was very effective. He cracked within 30 seconds. They all do, according to those that have done it. Those that interrogated him claim that the information they got from SKM prevented several terrorist attacks. Who knows how many lives that saved. Thirty seconds of intense fear of drowning caused him to sing like a bird and it was all over. He was broken. No, you don't have to continue the process. One thirty second secession convinces anyone that nothing they know is worth that terror they go though to keep it secret. Terrorizing the terrorist sounds very appropriate to me, especially when we can stop the process that only takes a half minute and save lives including the terrorist's, where as the terrorist has no intention of saving any lives. So to say we lower our selves to their level when we apply torture is absolutely false. By the way, my understanding of the bill just passed is that any suspension of the habeas corpus and interrogation techniques in question has to come directly from the President.  __._,_.___ To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Your email settings: Individual Email|Traditional Change settings via the Web (Yahoo! ID required) Change settings via email: Switch delivery to Daily Digest | Switch to Fully Featured Visit Your Group | Yahoo! Groups Terms of Use | Unsubscribe __,_._,___