The impracticality of torture
Like our more conservative fellow Americans, China is big on the death penalty, and on using torture as an instrument of security. Now a China official admits to torture, estimating that “at least 30 wrong verdicts were handed down each year because torture had been used.”
Mr Wang’s unusually frank comments appeared to be part of a campaign to tackle problems in the judicial system, and shore up public trust. He said suspects’ rights needed to be protected by stopping the use of illegal interrogations involving the use of torture.
He said illegal interrogation existed to “some extent” in local judicial practice. “Nearly every wrongful verdict in recent years is involved in illegal interrogation,” he said, according to the official Xinhua news agency.
Even the Chinese think the information you get from torture is unreliable. But Dick Cheney knows better. He thinks it’s essential to our national security.
First go here!
Then at the top search for “Flushed Away”. It’s the Daily Show take on torture. Pretty damn funny.
Enjoy
30 out of how many? I am not saying torture is right but I would not mind a little on OJ right now.
I thought being that you are a libertarian you would openly embrace what OJ is doing?
Yes, torture is nearly worthless from an intelligence point-of-view in addition to being ghastly. Someone will “confess” to anything to stop the torture and tell the interrogators whatever they want to hear just to make it stop. But look at how low this country has sunk that people are debating the pros and cons of f***ing torturing people!! All in the name of the “war on terror”. Since Bush and Cheney and the whole criminal regime like to always invoke 9/11 to “justify” every atrocious thing they feel like doing, so much so that it’s like a broken record stuck on the same phrase over and over, let’s take a few moments and look at some of the details of that horrible event that precipitated the “war on terror” and around which America’s foreign policy has been inextricably wrapped ever since.
One thing that struck me as odd in the days after 9/11 was Bush saying “We will not tolerate conspiracy theories [regarding 9/11]”. Sure enough there have been some wacky conspiracy theories surrounding the events of that day. The most far-fetched and patently ridiculous one that I’ve ever heard goes like this: Nineteen hijackers who claimed to be devout Muslims |||
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EDITOR’S NOTE: ENORMOUSLY LONG AND IRRELEVANT RANT PROPOSING CONSPIRACY THEORIES WE’VE ALL HEARD BEFORE, DELETED (and two more equally long posts after that)
Sorry, ‘Enlightenment’, I don’t mind a little thread drift but three maximum-length rants completely off-topic just to forward your pet theories, is just trolling and that will get you truncated every time.
Just think of me as an evil tool of the gub’mint backing the official story.
LOL, now they’re posting on torture. Man where does it stop…
The only thing that’s true torture here would be reading all the three posts that showed up in my notify email. Thankfully I was sparred by the great DOF!