--- In [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > 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. >
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