A fastfastfast look at the world on a sunny Saskatchewan Monday:
1 IT'S PRONOUNCED "ACK-DICK" AC/DC tickets go on sale and some Regina fans can't get tickets and they're very angry. This link is definitely worth visiting by the way, for the hilarious "Highway to Hell for you people" quote. (Leader Post)
2 MOURNING FOR COLUMBINE High school massacre marks 10th anniversary, and police officers who were at the scene recall the shootings. (BBC, Columbine Courier)
3 BRING ME A BUCKET Turns out the admitted Al Qaeda mastermind behind the 9-11 attacks was waterboarded 183 times by U.S. interrogators. Waterboarding is the torture technique that makes victims feel as though they are drowning, except the previous government didn't call it torture because torture makes it sound like something bad. (New York Times)
4 CHINA WALL GETS GREATER Another 180 miles discovered under shrubbery and such. (Guardian)
5 STANDOFF ENDS A "deranged" gunman who held passengers and crew of a Canadian plane hostage in Jamaica has been captured and nobody was injured. (Globe And Mail)
6 PICKING UP THE PIECES The CAW and Chrysler negotiate to meet the Conservative government's cost-cutting demands. (CP/Toronto Star)
4.20.2009
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Waterboarding?
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If the tables were turned, this 7th-century savage would have been chopping our heads off while making a video of it.
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Water boarding is not a near-drowning technique. The subject is never in danger of drowning. And water boarding is not torture… there is no physical harm to the subject.
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Kahlid Sheikh Mohammed is a bad guy, and US interrigators obtained valuable info from him using this technique- who cares how many times it took? It was up to him how long before he decided to cooperate, didn’t have to be this way necessarily- apparently he clung stubbornly to a bad decision, sounds like something he’d do.
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Waterboarding is absolutely torture. It causes pain and terror and it brutalizes the interrogator as well as the victim. And it's sickening that anyone would defend it.
It's not even practical. You don't get "valuable information" though waterboarding (or solitary confinenment, or beatings, or any of the other forms of torture the U.S. used in Dick Cheney's little concentration camps.) Information gained through torture is notoriously unreliable because people will say anything to stop the pain.
I'll agree with you, however, that waterboarding seems less unpleasant than bamboo shoots under the fingernails, or electric wires taped to the testicles, or slow, deliberate mutilation. But when defence of torture gets to the point where we're saying, 'well gee whiz it could be worse', the brutality of what we're talking about pretty much speaks for itself.
Torture is savage, vicious and tragically pointless, and defending it is beyond irresponsible. Knock it off.
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