ABikerSailor
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- Aug 26, 2008
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Don't be a c*nt. It is well known and accepted that coercion, even tortuous coercion, leads to information that is false. I still think we ought to waterboard terrorists though, just for the fuck of it and because they are sub-human vermin.You know we are entering the realm of pussification when waterboarding is classified as torture. When I was like 5-6 years old my mother would wash my hair in the kitchen sink. Why? Who the fuck knows? I am lucky to have made it out of my childhood alive. The procedure was for me to lie on my back with my head tilted back into the sink and a towel over my face do I would not get water in my eyes. Mom would shampoo my head, rinse, shampoo a second time, then rinse again. The whole time my face was covered with a towel.
Now, my family are not angels. Our parents loved and provided for us and us kids loved our parents. But mom and dad did like to imbibe in the spirits. So mom and dad are routinely soused, mom in the kitchen washing my hair and dad in the living room watching tv or reading the newspaper. Mom is distracted because she pissed at dad about something and they are shouting a conversation back and forth. Meanwhile, mom has the sink's water hose inadvertently spaying gobs of water in my face through the towel on my face. As I express unhappiness with my circumstances I am told to "shut the hell up and sit still". In other words, I just had to lie there and take it. It's just fucking water, afterall.
I hated having my hair washed. It was horror. Now I know that it was officially torture. Obviously it was not to the level of CIA administered waterboarding, but it still sucked. Just for the record, I never did this to my kids. In fact, I consciously stay away from most all of my parents' child rearing tactics. If anything I spoil my kids.
No, I do not support waterboarding kids. However, I do support waterboarding enemy combatants. Waterboarding is not dangerous. In fact, it is a very effective interrogation technique that can be done repeatedly without causing harm.
Waterboarding - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Obviously it was not to the level of CIA administered waterboarding, but it still sucked.".
Have you ever REALLY been waterboarded? I doubt it, because your, as you called her "soused up mother" didn't try to make you feel like you would really drown. Having a towel over your eyes is much different than having it pulled over your whole face while they pour water into your mouth and nose.
Waterboarding is considered a war crime because it was outlawed under the Geneva Conventions.
Additionally, you do know that torture is the LEAST effective method of gaining intelligence, right?
If you had served in the military, you would know those things.
Look, pal, being in the military does not give you any special voice in this convo. Special perspective, maybe. But special opinion? Nope.
You even said in your post that you think that "tortourous coercion, leads to information that is false", and that basically means that torture doesn't work.
However, you support torture "just for the fuck of it and because they are sub human vermin".
On that statement alone, it shows that you never served in the military, or if you did, you didn't make it very far.