Posted by Jonathan Adler:
Radio Host Waterboarded, Says It's Torture:
http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2009_05_17-2009_05_23.shtml#1243042201
Talk radio host Eric "Mancow" Muller [1]had himself waterboarded on
his radio program to see whether it constitutes torture.
With a Chicago Fire Department paramedic on hand, Mancow was placed
on a 7-foot long table, his legs were elevated, and his feet were
tied up.
. . . Witnesses said Muller thrashed on the table, and even
instantly threw the toy cow he was holding as his emergency tool to
signify when he wanted the experiment to stop. He only lasted 6 or
7 seconds.
"It is way worse than I thought it would be, and that's no joke,"
Mancow said, likening it to a time when he nearly drowned as a
child. "It is such an odd feeling to have water poured down your
nose with your head back . . . It was instantaneous . . . and I
don't want to say this: absolutely torture."
"I wanted to prove it wasn't torture," Mancow said. "They cut off
our heads, we put water on their face . . . I really thought 'I'm
going to laugh this off.' "
In this regard, Mancow's experience was much the same as
[2]Christopher Hitchens and [3]former OLC official Dan Levin.
References
1.
http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/Mancow-Takes-on-Waterboarding-and-Loses.html
2. http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2008/08/hitchens200808
3. http://volokh.com/posts/chain_1194103751.shtml
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