Don’t let the waterboarding distract you
Unqualified Offerings
by Thoreau
12/15/07
All this talk about 3 people subjected to a very carefully controlled torture method that leaves no marks is a red herring. It’s a way to paper over the reality, which is that when you release government employees from any sort of ethical standard they are inevitably going to deviate from ‘controlled’ behavior and unleash their inner sadist. They aren’t ‘a few bad apples,’ but rather they are utterly predictable consequences of a decision to abandon human standards. Finally, let me be clear about something: Even if there were only 3 instances of torture, and they all involved high-ranking Al Qaeda officials being tortured under carefully controlled circumstances, I would still oppose it. There are lots of reasons for that. However, while I would oppose it, I recognize the propaganda value of making it look like 3 rare and special circumstances...
http://highclearing.com/index.php/archives/2007/12/15/7569
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=waterboarding
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=torture
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Thoreau
by Thoreau
12/15/07
All this talk about 3 people subjected to a very carefully controlled torture method that leaves no marks is a red herring. It’s a way to paper over the reality, which is that when you release government employees from any sort of ethical standard they are inevitably going to deviate from ‘controlled’ behavior and unleash their inner sadist. They aren’t ‘a few bad apples,’ but rather they are utterly predictable consequences of a decision to abandon human standards. Finally, let me be clear about something: Even if there were only 3 instances of torture, and they all involved high-ranking Al Qaeda officials being tortured under carefully controlled circumstances, I would still oppose it. There are lots of reasons for that. However, while I would oppose it, I recognize the propaganda value of making it look like 3 rare and special circumstances...
http://highclearing.com/index.php/archives/2007/12/15/7569
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=waterboarding
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=torture
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Thoreau
rudkla - 17. Dez, 11:37
