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Even If Torture Doesn't Work In The Real World, TV Has Us Convinced It Does
Northwest Public Radio ^ | 12-12-2014 | Eric Deggans

Posted on 12/12/2014 1:06:24 PM PST by Citizen Zed

Consider this warning that recently greeted viewers of ABC's political soap opera, Scandal:

"The following drama contains adult content. Viewer discretion is advised."

That label was slapped on the episode because of scenes like the moment when trained torturer Huck prepared to ply his trade on colleague (and soon-to-be girlfriend) Quinn Perkins.

"Normally, I'd start with the drill or a scalpel," he told Perkins, who was bound and gagged, looking on in terror. "Peeling off the skin can be beautiful. Or removing fingers, toes; I like the feeling of a toe being separated from a foot. ... I'm so sorry, because I'm going to enjoy this."

Scenes like that have become a regular part of some popular TV shows and movies. People may disagree in real life, but in Hollywood, torture works.

From Kiefer Sutherland as hard-nosed government agent Jack Bauer on Fox's 24, growling this threat to a bad guy: "You probably don't think that I can force this towel down your throat. Trust me, I can."

(Excerpt) Read more at m.nwpr.org ...


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I have to confess that the towel quote was from the only 5 minutes I watched of 24. I didn't care for thoughts like that in my head and chose not to watch. That said, torture works much better in the real world than it does on TV.
1 posted on 12/12/2014 1:06:24 PM PST by Citizen Zed
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To: Citizen Zed
Torture may not work, but enhanced interrogation methods darn sure do...
2 posted on 12/12/2014 1:08:35 PM PST by gov_bean_ counter (Romans 1:22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools)
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To: Citizen Zed

The folks that ran the USAF SERE school told me torture works.


3 posted on 12/12/2014 1:09:44 PM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: Citizen Zed

Since it isn’t torture, fine.
The interrogation techniques they use are not torture. People are watering down the meaning of torture trying to associate it with interrogation.


4 posted on 12/12/2014 1:12:24 PM PST by vpintheak (Keep calm and Rain Steel!)
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To: Citizen Zed

Torture works in the real world.


5 posted on 12/12/2014 1:15:32 PM PST by Usagi_yo (Coming events caste their shadow beforehand.)
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To: Citizen Zed

Hmmm, I’m betting that if you told 100 journalists the same secret, that I could get 99 of them to tell me that secret inside of an hour.

When the Gestapo caught someone, the Underground knew that they had only a few hours to save the people the captured person knew.


6 posted on 12/12/2014 1:18:15 PM PST by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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To: Citizen Zed

Of course it works.


7 posted on 12/12/2014 1:22:41 PM PST by bkepley
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To: Citizen Zed

attend SERE before commenting


8 posted on 12/12/2014 1:28:31 PM PST by zzwhale
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To: gov_bean_ counter

Correct. We have gotten thousands of pages of useable intel using EITs.


9 posted on 12/12/2014 1:30:36 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Good Muslims, like good Nazis or good liberals, are terrible human beings.)
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To: Hugh the Scot; yldstrk

ping


10 posted on 12/12/2014 1:33:19 PM PST by CatherineofAragon ((Support Christian white males---the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization.))
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To: Citizen Zed

The media, movies and television doesn’t show torture - it shows psychopathic sadism. There IS a difference.


11 posted on 12/12/2014 1:38:45 PM PST by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: DuncanWaring
Only the stupid and naive believe torture does not work.

I can testify with certainty that it does.

12 posted on 12/12/2014 1:40:37 PM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Mariner

What if I really don’t care if it works or niot?


13 posted on 12/12/2014 1:42:40 PM PST by USNBandit (sarcasm engaged at all times)
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To: vpintheak
"The interrogation techniques they use are not torture"

Who told you that?

http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2340

14 posted on 12/12/2014 1:44:49 PM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Citizen Zed

I don’t know... seeing Daniel Craig as James Bond sitting in that bottomless chair... It sure didn’t work on him.
(I still cringe when I watch that)


15 posted on 12/12/2014 1:47:13 PM PST by envisio (Its on like Donkey Kong!)
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To: Citizen Zed
People tend to discard things that do not work.

Torture works.

Now as to whether it works to give you useful information or the guy just tells you what you want to hear, there can be some discussion on that.

But torture works.

16 posted on 12/12/2014 1:48:24 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (Proud Infidel, Gun Nut, Religious Fanatic and Freedom Fiend)
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To: USNBandit
"What if I really don’t care if it works or niot?"

Nobody is encouraging you to care.

17 posted on 12/12/2014 1:55:03 PM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Mariner

Right-o.

Everyone can be broken because there comes a point where you just want it to end.

As a teen I screwed up and stayed out all night. My dad applied the lightest bit of “torture” on me when morning came. I had yet to sleep and he didn’t want staying up all night to be a habit that ruined my chores or staying in bed till the afternoon. So he made me stay up. If I sat or laid down he tossed a shot of water in my face or grabbed me by the shoulder and made me stand on my feet. He made sure I stayed up and walking around till I begged him to just let me sleep.

All it was was sleep deprivation and I was promising him I’d never stay out or up later than midnight.


18 posted on 12/12/2014 2:00:29 PM PST by Bogey78O (We had a good run. Coulda been great still.)
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To: Citizen Zed

Torture works just fine. The liberals just want the world to think we did not succeed.. Communists always want to rewrite the history books to make it so they are great and everyone else sucks.


19 posted on 12/12/2014 2:01:39 PM PST by CodeToad (Islam should be outlawed and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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To: Citizen Zed

There is torture and there is advanced ways of interrogation. Sleep deprivation, water boarding, food manipulation are not forms of torture. They are not comfortable but not torture. For torture look to the Japs in WWII, Mafia, North Koreans etc. They know torture. And there is Islam...


20 posted on 12/12/2014 2:05:38 PM PST by mc5cents ("Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God." - Thomas Jefferson)
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