Tag Archive for 'torture'

“we can’t take American assurances that they do not torture detainees at face value”

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tigtog
4 months, 2 weeks ago
in Authoritarianism, Ethics, Foreign policy, Language, Politics, Security and Terrorism
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Story: British MPs raise torture concerns

So some politicians have finally noticed that when one group of people define torture so that it includes waterboarding and another group defines torture so that it excludes waterboarding, then the word torture itself becomes stripped of substance in terms of the debate over the ethical and humane treatment of prisoners (let alone which techniques are actually effective at intelligence-gathering).

Took them long enough.

Waterboarding Hitchens

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tigtog
5 months ago
in Authoritarianism, Ethics, Language, Law, Politics, Security, Sociology and Terrorism
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Christopher Hitchens actually had himself waterboarded by the US Military to see whether it felt like torture to him. It did.

via Pharyngula, who has links to video.