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Spam
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Location: Mississauga, Ontario
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| quote: | Originally posted by Krypton
So you are accusing the current administration of not adhering to the Geneva Conventions or the US Army Field Manual? Ok, prove it. |
I dunno what's in the Geneva Conventions OR the Field Manual, but I KNOW that you don't obtain sensitive information by offering a man a smoke and asking nicely. So either they AREN'T torturing, and are receiving NO relevant intelligence, or they ARE obtaining that needed info, and they are using some means of persuasion that the average western-world liberal would not approve of.
Whether the media discovers those means, reports those means if they do, or never find out, I refuse to believe that some form of torture, or torture-like action that falls in the gray-zone is not being used to acquire terrorist intelligence.
We're talking about an administration that stages it's own "Town Hall" meetings. You don't think they'd cover up their means of persuading prisoners to give up whatever information they have?
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Captain Planet is gey.
Water, Fire, Earth, Wind, Heart???
These forces are supposed to combine to create Captain Planet?
Bullshit.
Those forces combine to create a soaking, boiling mudstorm on Valentine's Day.
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Jul-11-2009 21:39
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Krypton
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Registered: Nov 2003
Location: Texas
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| quote: | Originally posted by Spam
I dunno what's in the Geneva Conventions OR the Field Manual, but I KNOW that you don't obtain sensitive information by offering a man a smoke and asking nicely. So either they AREN'T torturing, and are receiving NO relevant intelligence, or they ARE obtaining that needed info, and they are using some means of persuasion that the average western-world liberal would not approve of. |
That is a false presumption that intelligence cannot be obtained without torture. If that were the case, then why don't the police torture every suspect they question? How do police obtain so many confessions and information WITHOUT torture, barring the fact that it's illegal to torture, domestically, or on the battlefield.
| quote: | Whether the media discovers those means, reports those means if they do, or never find out, I refuse to believe that some form of torture, or torture-like action that falls in the gray-zone is not being used to acquire terrorist intelligence.
We're talking about an administration that stages it's own "Town Hall" meetings. You don't think they'd cover up their means of persuading prisoners to give up whatever information they have? |
I see your suspicions, but as of yet, you haven't provided any evidence, or "smoking gun", to prove the Obama administration continues a Bush torture policy that Bush himself ended in 2006.
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Jul-11-2009 21:50
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Spam
OMG Hai2U!

Registered: Dec 2004
Location: Mississauga, Ontario
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| quote: | Originally posted by Krypton
That is a false presumption that intelligence cannot be obtained without torture. If that were the case, then why don't the police torture every suspect they question? How do police obtain so many confessions and information WITHOUT torture, |
Police obtain information because your typical criminal isn't a brainwashed psychopath who's only one button away from blowing himself up on a bus. Most criminals are looking out for their own ass, and when the cop says "You better confess because we have TONS of evidence against you and the court will be more lenient if you cooperate", they break and confess.
Police also brutally beat people sometimes, and it goes unreported. What's to stop an army interrogator from using a bit of torture if the chances of him actually being caught are slim-to-none?
Military confessions are much harder to get because those people are trained soldiers, who are fighting for a greater cause than their own existence. Many would rather die, for instance, than tell a US soldier where their commanders are.
| quote: | | barring the fact that it's illegal to torture, domestically, or on the battlefield. |
It's illegal to smoke weed, but I do it.
It's illegal to speed, but I do it.
It's illegal to download free music and movies, but I do it.
It's illegal to keep fish from Canadian lakes in my fish aquarium, but I have 4 in my 90 gallon right now.
It was illegal to torture when Bush was having it done, but he still had it done.
There are TONS of things that are illegal. That doesn't mean that laws are being followed. I think it's highly naive to say "Well, Bush said he ended the torture because the newspaper told me so." And actually believe that lying son of a bitch ACTUALLY stopped having it done.
The most probable fact is that torture of some sort is PROBABLY still being carried out, if not 'officially' than certainly unofficially. The President who's against torture can't know what an army investigator is ACTUALLY doing to a prisoner being interrogated, all of the time.
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Captain Planet is gey.
Water, Fire, Earth, Wind, Heart???
These forces are supposed to combine to create Captain Planet?
Bullshit.
Those forces combine to create a soaking, boiling mudstorm on Valentine's Day.
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Jul-12-2009 19:50
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Krypton
83.798 g/6.022x10^23

Registered: Nov 2003
Location: Texas
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| quote: | Originally posted by Spam
Police obtain information because your typical criminal isn't a brainwashed psychopath who's only one button away from blowing himself up on a bus. Most criminals are looking out for their own ass, and when the cop says "You better confess because we have TONS of evidence against you and the court will be more lenient if you cooperate", they break and confess.
Police also brutally beat people sometimes, and it goes unreported. What's to stop an army interrogator from using a bit of torture if the chances of him actually being caught are slim-to-none?
Military confessions are much harder to get because those people are trained soldiers, who are fighting for a greater cause than their own existence. Many would rather die, for instance, than tell a US soldier where their commanders are. |
Police don't use torture, because, first, it's illegal. Second, it's ineffective. If I am being tortured, I will confess to anything you want me to. Is it no wonder we got so much bogus "intelligence" on Iraq being in league with Al-Qaeda? People told us that because they were being tortured.
| quote: | It's illegal to smoke weed, but I do it.
It's illegal to speed, but I do it.
It's illegal to download free music and movies, but I do it.
It's illegal to keep fish from Canadian lakes in my fish aquarium, but I have 4 in my 90 gallon right now.
It was illegal to torture when Bush was having it done, but he still had it done.
There are TONS of things that are illegal. That doesn't mean that laws are being followed. I think it's highly naive to say "Well, Bush said he ended the torture because the newspaper told me so." And actually believe that lying son of a bitch ACTUALLY stopped having it done.
The most probable fact is that torture of some sort is PROBABLY still being carried out, if not 'officially' than certainly unofficially. The President who's against torture can't know what an army investigator is ACTUALLY doing to a prisoner being interrogated, all of the time. |
Your disregard for the law does not excuse our government violating it.
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