The legacy of torture
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Come to the UK. Our lords and masters practice the truly majestic technique of turning a blind eye.
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I was unaware of that. The UK has state run torture chambers? As far a turning a blind eye is concerned, we have plenty of that in the US. You may have heard our current president talking about "looking forward, not backward."? None of those CIA torturers have been brought to justice, nor have any of those in the Bush administration who ordered it or wrote the "legal" justification for it.
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I was unaware of that. The UK has state run torture chambers? As far a turning a blind eye is concerned, we have plenty of that in the US. You may have heard our current president talking about "looking forward, not backward."? None of those CIA torturers have been brought to justice, nor have any of those in the Bush administration who ordered it or wrote the "legal" justification for it.
Majerus wrote:
The UK has state run torture chambers?
No. There's been a scandal over here with the former government turning a blind eye to what's called rendition flights, but getting the benefit of the said flights and pretending that they had no idea what was being done to provide the information.
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Majerus wrote:
The UK has state run torture chambers?
No. There's been a scandal over here with the former government turning a blind eye to what's called rendition flights, but getting the benefit of the said flights and pretending that they had no idea what was being done to provide the information.
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That was the start of it.
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That was the start of it.
Forgive your enemies - it messes with their heads
My blog | My articles | MoXAML PowerToys | Mole 2010 - debugging made easier - my favourite utility
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I was unaware of that. The UK has state run torture chambers? As far a turning a blind eye is concerned, we have plenty of that in the US. You may have heard our current president talking about "looking forward, not backward."? None of those CIA torturers have been brought to justice, nor have any of those in the Bush administration who ordered it or wrote the "legal" justification for it.
I think the UK is the only country that has a stated non-torture policy. * It isn't as noble as it first appears, the reason is torture doesn't work according to our experts, and better results can be achieved by mentally wearing people down. That said, as Pete states, we do look away when other countries want to send people to be tortured via outsourcing. * This was certainly the case a few years ago.
Sort of a cross between Lawrence of Arabia and Dilbert.[^]
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I think the UK is the only country that has a stated non-torture policy. * It isn't as noble as it first appears, the reason is torture doesn't work according to our experts, and better results can be achieved by mentally wearing people down. That said, as Pete states, we do look away when other countries want to send people to be tortured via outsourcing. * This was certainly the case a few years ago.
Sort of a cross between Lawrence of Arabia and Dilbert.[^]
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A Dead ringer for Kate Winslett[^]The US also has a stated non-torture policy. Our constitution, our treaty obligations and US law all forbid it. Unfortunately, the previous adminstration chose to create a world-wide torture program and the current administration has chosen not to investigate or prosecute those crimes.
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I think the UK is the only country that has a stated non-torture policy. * It isn't as noble as it first appears, the reason is torture doesn't work according to our experts, and better results can be achieved by mentally wearing people down. That said, as Pete states, we do look away when other countries want to send people to be tortured via outsourcing. * This was certainly the case a few years ago.
Sort of a cross between Lawrence of Arabia and Dilbert.[^]
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A Dead ringer for Kate Winslett[^]Keith Barrow wrote:
we do look away when other countries want to send people to be tortured via outsourcing.
Jesus Christ, another industry's jobs lost to outsourcing...
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The US also has a stated non-torture policy. Our constitution, our treaty obligations and US law all forbid it. Unfortunately, the previous adminstration chose to create a world-wide torture program and the current administration has chosen not to investigate or prosecute those crimes.
Pelosi was there, so the current administration might be trying to protect party members. Hell maybe Obama has no problem with it, if he did, he might try to do something about it.
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Pelosi was there, so the current administration might be trying to protect party members. Hell maybe Obama has no problem with it, if he did, he might try to do something about it.
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wizardzz wrote:
Pelosi was there
As well as all 434 other members of the house of representatives. What's your point?
You obviously have no idea what I'm talking about, she was literally there, hearing about it from the CIA. She is a Dem, and did nothing about it when Bushy was in office. http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/2009/05/intelligence-re.html[^] http://articles.latimes.com/2009/may/08/nation/na-interrogate8[^]
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You obviously have no idea what I'm talking about, she was literally there, hearing about it from the CIA. She is a Dem, and did nothing about it when Bushy was in office. http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/2009/05/intelligence-re.html[^] http://articles.latimes.com/2009/may/08/nation/na-interrogate8[^]
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Oh, I suspected that this is what you were alluding to, but since you didn't actually say what you meant, I was not going to put words in your mouth. Pelosi may or may not have know that one individual had been waterboarded. If she knew and did nothing about it, that's terrible I guess it might even be a crime. But, of course, in 2002 the Republicans were the majority in the house and Porter Goss was the Republican chairman of the House intelligence committee at the time. But this is irrelevant to what I said. It was Bush and HIS executive branch the created the world-wide torture regime. Not Nancy Pelosi, not even Porter Goss. Whatever blamed can be laid on Pelosi individually or the Republican controlled congress collectively - Bush, Cheney, Rice, Ashcroft, Gonzalez, Addington, Yoo and others were the ones who created it and sustained it.
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Oh, I suspected that this is what you were alluding to, but since you didn't actually say what you meant, I was not going to put words in your mouth. Pelosi may or may not have know that one individual had been waterboarded. If she knew and did nothing about it, that's terrible I guess it might even be a crime. But, of course, in 2002 the Republicans were the majority in the house and Porter Goss was the Republican chairman of the House intelligence committee at the time. But this is irrelevant to what I said. It was Bush and HIS executive branch the created the world-wide torture regime. Not Nancy Pelosi, not even Porter Goss. Whatever blamed can be laid on Pelosi individually or the Republican controlled congress collectively - Bush, Cheney, Rice, Ashcroft, Gonzalez, Addington, Yoo and others were the ones who created it and sustained it.
Ok, so now you are putting words in my mouth. I was explaining why the current administration might not be doing anything about it. If you look at my original reply, that is exactly what I was saying. Obama's admin might not want to throw Pelosi in with the Bush admin people that would be investigated. Pelosi was there, so the current administration might be trying to protect party members. Hell maybe Obama has no problem with it, if he did, he might try to do something about it.
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Ok, so now you are putting words in my mouth. I was explaining why the current administration might not be doing anything about it. If you look at my original reply, that is exactly what I was saying. Obama's admin might not want to throw Pelosi in with the Bush admin people that would be investigated. Pelosi was there, so the current administration might be trying to protect party members. Hell maybe Obama has no problem with it, if he did, he might try to do something about it.
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Well I think that as far as political calculations are concerned protecting Nancy Pelosi's ass is way down on the list. More likely the bat-shit crazy freakout of the pro torture Republican party that would have occurred had the previous administration been investigated for war crimes was something Obama would not have wanted to deal with. Either way - I don't care. Bush and his minions committed war crimes and Obama broke the law by not investigating them.
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The Ontario Court of Appeal has upheld a decision to halt extradition proceedings for an alleged Al-Qaeda arms supplier, citing the extent of US human rights abuses tied to his capture in Pakistan.[^] I will never understand why one of the two major parties in this country have embraced this immoral, illegal and useless practice.
Would it be ok with you if we just sent some SEALs up there to shoot him in the head? That appears to be a perfectly moral, legal and very useful practice. Now personally, I don't understand the logic with that, but the left seems to be understand it just fine. I mean, I haven't heard any of the Bush haters call Obama a war criminal.
Chaining ourselves to the moral high ground does not make us good guys. Aside from making us easy targets, it merely makes us idiotic prisoners of our own self loathing.
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Would it be ok with you if we just sent some SEALs up there to shoot him in the head? That appears to be a perfectly moral, legal and very useful practice. Now personally, I don't understand the logic with that, but the left seems to be understand it just fine. I mean, I haven't heard any of the Bush haters call Obama a war criminal.
Chaining ourselves to the moral high ground does not make us good guys. Aside from making us easy targets, it merely makes us idiotic prisoners of our own self loathing.
Stan Shannon wrote:
Would it be ok with you if we just sent some SEALs up there to shoot him in the head?
No. I dont see it as moral, legal or useful. If you think that this guy is somehow comparable to bin Laden, I disagree.
Stan Shannon wrote:
Now personally, I don't understand the logic with that, but the left seems to be understand it just fine.
Don't know what you mean.
Stan Shannon wrote:
I haven't heard any of the Bush haters call Obama a war criminal.
Then you haven't been listening.
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Well I think that as far as political calculations are concerned protecting Nancy Pelosi's ass is way down on the list. More likely the bat-shit crazy freakout of the pro torture Republican party that would have occurred had the previous administration been investigated for war crimes was something Obama would not have wanted to deal with. Either way - I don't care. Bush and his minions committed war crimes and Obama broke the law by not investigating them.
You're also leaving out: If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Obama may just be keeping the status quo, or benefiting from the use of aggressive interrogation, after all, Gitmo is still open 3 years after his election.
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You're also leaving out: If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Obama may just be keeping the status quo, or benefiting from the use of aggressive interrogation, after all, Gitmo is still open 3 years after his election.
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I guess it's possible that Obama actually believes that torture is useful, but it seems unlikely. Because it isn't. Again, why Obama chooses to break the law by his failure to investigate the war crimes of the previous administration is something I really don't care about.
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Stan Shannon wrote:
Would it be ok with you if we just sent some SEALs up there to shoot him in the head?
No. I dont see it as moral, legal or useful. If you think that this guy is somehow comparable to bin Laden, I disagree.
Stan Shannon wrote:
Now personally, I don't understand the logic with that, but the left seems to be understand it just fine.
Don't know what you mean.
Stan Shannon wrote:
I haven't heard any of the Bush haters call Obama a war criminal.
Then you haven't been listening.
I'm listening to you. You're calling Obama a war criminal? Should he be impeached?
Chaining ourselves to the moral high ground does not make us good guys. Aside from making us easy targets, it merely makes us idiotic prisoners of our own self loathing.
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I guess it's possible that Obama actually believes that torture is useful, but it seems unlikely. Because it isn't. Again, why Obama chooses to break the law by his failure to investigate the war crimes of the previous administration is something I really don't care about.
Majerus wrote:
I guess it's possible that Obama actually believes that torture is useful, but it seems unlikely. Because it isn't.
Haha, well maybe that's what they get when it's outsourced. Need codez! (waterboarding) urgntzzzz!
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