Wednesday, May 27, 2009

A Fresh Perspective on “Torture”

The terms torture and water boarding have been the latest buzzwords since the new administration has taken office. Anyone who understands water boarding, knows that it is used to invoke a strong reaction of fear in the person being interrogated, but does not physically harm them. Now let’s consider this form of “torture” while pondering the Americans who had their heads cut off by terrorists while being videotaped for broadcast on television, and the four American private contractors who were attacked while delivering supplies in Iraq, and then their burned bodies were dragged through the streets and hung off a bridge as terrorists danced around with glee. Kind of puts it in a different perspective, doesn’t it? Comedian Steven Crowder does his own analysis of the terror at Gitmo. Check it out.

1 comment:

Divemedic said...

This is where I have to disagree with many of my conservative friends. Just because something does not leave any physical wounds does not mean that it is not torture, and does not make it acceptable, any more than US police claiming that rape is acceptable in detained women because some criminals do it. "Everyone else is doing it" doesn't work any better now than it did when my kids tried that defense in their school years.

That the terrorists are beheading our servicemen doe not make torture any more palatable.

Keep in mind that conservatives advocating waterboarding for terrorists sets the stage for Obama to authorize waterboarding against 'right wing terror' organizations like the Promise Keepers, the NRA, and other 'dangerous groups'.

This is addressed by the fifth and fourth amendments. Now, whether a person sagged on a foreign battlefield is subject to constitutional protection is another matter altogether.