torture

I've been taken to task about my opinion that waterboarding is not torture. I came to that conclusion for two reasons it does not leave permanent scars and no physical impairment. Ok I stand corrected. Jesse Ventura says it is and he should know. https://youtu.be/wgarV13g6QM One person here...

http://globalnews.ca/news/2782480/montreal-priests-no-longer-allowed-to-be-alone-with-children/ This is truly amazing to me. Shocking. Someone finally realized that they just can't trust the priests (for whatever reason. recruiting only men who volunteer to never have sex with an adult woman...

This is to me absolutely unbelievable even knowing his track record. He is declaring that the USA would in fact become a rouge state if he was President and gets the "policies" he wants through the legislate. "Even if it doesn't work they deserve it"

A brief moment of clarity.

and how it doesn't work. The reason why is obvious: people being toruted will say anything to end the torture no matter if it is true or not. For example, KSM sent the FBI on some wild goose chase over something he made up to try to get the CIA to stop torturing him. Bottom line, there is no...

Split from recent tv show "The commission"? They didn't look into any collapses. It was just myth making based on "evidence" derived from torture and a vivid fantasy sharpened by earlier projects.

I think at this point she's just trolling John McCain for the lulz. Nice. It's a helpful reminder of what a bullet we dodged when we elected Obama over a guy who would nominate this horrible woman to take over the country should he die in office.

CIA misled on interrogation program, Senate report says Any thoughts? Shouldn't some heads roll over this at least? I don't think there is much appetite for prosecutions, but shouldn't there be some kind of accountability?

The location of Osama bin Laden was determined by following a specific message courier. The name of that specific courier was obtained by the means of torture. A central talking point of Liberals and the Democratic party is that torture does not work and is incontrovertibly immoral. Do the ends...

Anybody remember Gaddafi's 19-year-old "girl executioner," Nisreen al-Forgani? After the fall of Tripoli, she was shown to the world media, shackled to a hospital bed, explaining her sins. She'd been forced into the "popular gaurds," raped by its director Mansour Daw, abused and stuff and...

I was thinking about accusations that Bush and Cheney were war criminal. I have little doubt that they meet that standard in some nations around the world. My question is if they committed a war crime as that term exists in America? It seems it would be very difficult to have congress pass a...

So at this point, are any of you erstwhile Republicans going to bolt your party? Do you really support restarting the torture sites in 2013? You think that's moral, legal, and wise? http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/updates/1842 I really thought this nightmare was over. We lost our way...

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10758695 I guess the Amnesty International has set its sight on lesser evil owing to the failure of convincing the US Congress to impeach president Obama for authorising the US special forces with the shooting of Osama bin Laden...

The mind boggles. Torture victim John McCain doesn't understand how torture works, says former senator Rick Santorum Link NSFW!

Someone suggested that an answer in another thread might be considered off-topic by moderators... so I will bring it up here. Let's get something out in the open--people here that think that waterboarding should be performed in some circumstances... are you willing to say that it could be...

I have heard claims that enhanced interrogation techniques, particularly waterboarding (possibly of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed specifically) led either directly or indirectly to the finding and killing of Osama Bin Laden. However, most of these claims i hear are from conservative media figures and...

So, do you think the ends justified the means? I've always though torture to be cruel and evil and requires oversight to be sure, but I've also stood by the fact that it works no matter how evil it is. Does this validate torture? Nope, and torture never needed validation to begin with...

I just read a little about Medieval and earlier forms of torture. I just don't understand how human beings could be sooo cruel. Did we not have any sympathy for our fellow man? Disgusting. Maybe sadism was much more common.

P3UZPytFUAo more information: http://leaksource.wordpress.com/2011/02/07/wikileaks-guantanamo-detainee-omar-khadr-shame-on-you-stephen-harper-gov-of-canada/ Distressing to watch, NSFW.

Extracts from article, linked below": Solitary confinement is ... a method of inflicting traumatic injury upon the human mind. “It’s an awful thing, solitary,” wrote former Vietnam prisoner John McCain in Faith of My Fathers. “It crushes your spirit and weakens your resistance more effectively...

With the news that Bush is justifying Waterboarding again, the question will inevitably rise again. Why not torture someone if the information will save lives? Have they not shed their rights by committing crime?

'...In his first major interview since leaving office, former president George W. Bush defended the most controversial aspects of his tenure - including the use of waterboarding against terrorism suspects and the invasion of Iraq. ...' From...

Is there any act or series of acts that a person can do that would justify torturing that person as punishment? For example, if that person himself tortured and then murdered dozens of innocent children, and this was proven beyond any shadow of a doubt, would that not justify him being tortured...

http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2010/10/07/2010-10-07_error_by_trial.html Guess what the outcome of this so-called trial will probably be? ;)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/sep/09/us-court-binyam-mohamed-torture Some mo' of that hopey-hopey-change-change going on.

Source Documents For shame.

The Shrub screwed up part of the war on terror by being a barbarian. Seems that the Europeans do not want to extradite some suspected heavy-weight terrorists because the suspects might be treated inhumanely before and after any conviction for a crime...

After several recent high-profile cases in which it was proven that innocent people had been jailed based on confessions obtained through torture, the Chinese gov't has finally passed a law that any evidence obtained through torture will no longer be admissible in the courtroom; and furthermore...

http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/07/05/iran.stoning/index.html?video=true?video=true&hpt=T1

From Huffington Post: I keep going back to the way torture is defined (in the CAT and in U.S. law), which includes that it be done by government officials. The obvious intent of the law is to prohibit governments from committing torture. (Non government torture, is a matter for state...